ethanol content testers--are the cheap ones accurate enough?
 

I've heard shane has an expensive ethanol tester, curious what it does vs the cheapies like this one:

http://www.quickfueltechnology.com/s...test-tube.html

http://www.quickfueltechnology.com/s...5eChecker2.jpg



Also, any good methods for getting fuel into one of these things w/o spilling or overfilling it?

Re: ethanol content testers--are the cheap ones accurate enough?
 

Um, don't try to fill it at the gas pump? :D

Re: ethanol content testers--are the cheap ones accurate enough?
 

I have one of the Buschur ones, haven't had a chance to use it yet though. I will say its not really easy getting the water to the correct line. Thinking about buying a turkey baster and a small gas jug to do it with.

Re: ethanol content testers--are the cheap ones accurate enough?
 

they work good. I have one from when I was in tech school. It only goes to 10% content though. turkey baster sounds like a good Idea. I have a secont tube that I would transfer fuel from a gas can into and then slowly pore into the vile.

Re: ethanol content testers--are the cheap ones accurate enough?
 

Tried mine out today. I guess it works? lol


It's right on the nuts at 70%, though you can't quite tell in the pictures. I'll probably be using this over the course of the summer during my e85 experience. :D
http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._1718494_n.jpg

Re: ethanol content testers--are the cheap ones accurate enough?
 

I will say that cheap testers like this are typically pretty good regardless of the application in my experience. For my saltwater aquarium I use manual testers to test a handful of things, you don't always need electronic gadgetry.

Re: ethanol content testers--are the cheap ones accurate enough?
 

Those cheap ones work great. My buddys dad uses one for his drag car he said it is very accurate.

Re: ethanol content testers--are the cheap ones accurate enough?
 

St. Cloud Coborn's is at E75 now :)

I forgot to mention, when I got tuned we compared this little guy with Shane's fancy pants tester and they came out reading the same thing.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net..._2828888_n.jpg

Re: ethanol content testers--are the cheap ones accurate enough?
 

I just bout this one for $10 shipped on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...m=150594694596

Not the best, but for my purposes it should be fine.

Re: ethanol content testers--are the cheap ones accurate enough?
 

That one's graduation is shit compared to what goodhart has... Will be difficult to know exactly what you have.

Re: ethanol content testers--are the cheap ones accurate enough?
 

This thing is smaller than I thought. It's about the size of a pack of wrigley's. Still, it works perfect for my needs, my tank is filled with 85% ethanol:

(angle of pic is slightly off, in person it's obvious)
http://www.scheides.com/albums/evoX/e85tester.sized.jpg

Re: ethanol content testers--are the cheap ones accurate enough?
 

You should test regular unleaded just to see how much Ethanol is in regular gas.