E-85 Ethanol is it worth using
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Originally Posted by 4.8T
why would you have to have so much more fuel?? but yeah that would be a good test hell if it worked good and you could crank the boost up some more i'd try to convert mine myself.
I know in race cars, strait ethanol is good for about 10% more power over gas, plus it runs cooler, but you burn twice as much.
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Thanks for the info from everybody. Basically its not worth it. But its nice to know your vehicle can run on something other than gasoline. By the way my Suburban is averaging 15 to 17 city and 17 to 19 on the highway
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See what the prices are before you rule it out. I just read a post on another truck forumn were they were getting E85 for 1.89. That would be worth it in my truck. If I were you I think it would be worth trying for a tank or so. Your truck may do better than mine and I drive pretty hard which I'm sure doesn't help.
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E85 around here is still $1.60 a gallon whereas reg gas is $2.73 a gallon....sure i might get a little bit less mileage...but i save $1.12 every gallon, and i don't drive long distances, just 8 miles to school, and another 8 back home...then little 5-10 mile trips during farm season to get to the fields.
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Check your vin. I believe it is a vin Z in the 8th(?) letter of the vin. Mine has a sticker in the fuel door that has e85 info also.
There are a couple sites. I use e85fuel dot com. I have a westers tune and lyndon says it is no problem the tune is compatable. I have used it with my tune and had no problems. I would ask your tuner to be sure. I'm assuming all the good ones can or do leave the capability in there.
There are a couple sites. I use e85fuel dot com. I have a westers tune and lyndon says it is no problem the tune is compatable. I have used it with my tune and had no problems. I would ask your tuner to be sure. I'm assuming all the good ones can or do leave the capability in there.
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Originally Posted by BlueTahoe
See what the prices are before you rule it out. I just read a post on another truck forumn were they were getting E85 for 1.89. That would be worth it in my truck. If I were you I think it would be worth trying for a tank or so. Your truck may do better than mine and I drive pretty hard which I'm sure doesn't help.
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Trucks outfitted to run on E85 or gas have a sensor that lets the computer know what percentage of what is in the gas tank so the computer can adjust accordingly. A truck without that can't be converted to run E85 with just some orings. The tune would need to be changed also and you'd have to stick with E85 without the fuel sensor deal on there.
Don't know what else might need to be changed.
Don't know what else might need to be changed.
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