50/50 E-85 and 92 octane

[95talonracer]

Well let us know if or what it recks so we all know.

[CDeutsch]

Savin me some money nog!

You're probably wasting money.

According to this article: "According to the DOE, a driver would need 1.4 gallons of E85 to travel the same distance as one gallon of regular unleaded gasoline."
http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2006/05/15/006792.html

And according to Car and Driver:
"Since flex-fuel vehicles will burn either fuel, here’s how to tell which is the better financial deal. Divide the gasoline price by 1.33. If E85 is priced above the result, don’t buy it. Example: If gasoline is $2.50 per gallon, don’t pay more than $1.88 for E85. Unless you especially enjoy going yellow."
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/11174/tech-stuff-ethanol-promises-ethanol-economics-page6.html

Whenever I do the math E85 is more expensive, but let me know if you find a station whose E85 factors out to be cheaper then regular so I can start going there.

[Halon]

Gas was like 2.59, and E85 was 2.10 out by my house. I've never compared milage. Someday I'll compare it and see the difference. I know many will say I'm wasting money, and going to destroy the car, but I tend to do my own thing when it comes to my cars.

I listen to what everyone says, but in the end I just decide for myself, and most of the time it's against popular opinion (ie: homemade everything on my talon to save money even though it took me forever to build, Maaco paint job, mixing E85, using an ebay fmic, run Mahle Pistons even though they have shorter skirts and people who've never used them say they aren't going to last as long, etc.)

Someday I'll measure my milage difference I see in my car and see what my real world results are, instead of calculating what it "should be" because some engineer out there decided that's the number that will perfectly calculate the difference in milage for every application.

[Shane@DBPerformance]

E85 gives bad gas mileage but is great for boost. I have tuned a few turbo cars running anywhere from a few gallons of E85 per tank all the way up to 100% E85. I retuned an Evo 9 the other day that didn't make the best power the first time he came in with non-oxy fuel due to it wanting to knock too easy. He put a fuel pump in it, put in normal 10% ethanol gas plus 2 or 3 gallons of E85 and we were able to up the boost a little, add timing and run it a tiny bit leaner. It made 300awhp on our Dyno Dynamics with just an exhaust, MBC and retuned ECU on the car. The 16Gs on those Evos are crazy compared to what we use on the DSMs and MIVEC is cool.

[Shotgun!]

Sounds like Jim to me. Good to hear he made 300. I know he'll be happy.

[Shane@DBPerformance]

No it wasn't Jim. With Jim's luck, his will only make 195awhp.

[Shotgun!]

Haha
I can't believe how many people are going for the corn juice these days!

[niterydr]

No it wasn't Jim. With Jim's luck, his will only make 195awhp.

LMAO, poor Jim. That is a sad but a true statement.

[Elementality158]

I hope it works good. That would be real nice to save a little money.

[95talonracer]

Ya especially when you get done with a build and need to fix it withing 20 mins again.