Who's running E85?
01-23-2011, 02:20 PM
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Who's running E85?
Are you guys mixing it? In the winter here the E85 is actually running 70% alchohol. I'm kicking around the idea of trying it but not for sure how to go about this. If the fuel is off alot I would have to check the alchohol content everytime I fuel up. Just wondering how you guys are doing it???
01-23-2011, 02:51 PM
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Are you guys mixing it? In the winter here the E85 is actually running 70% alchohol. I'm kicking around the idea of trying it but not for sure how to go about this. If the fuel is off alot I would have to check the alchohol content everytime I fuel up. Just wondering how you guys are doing it???
Been running it for darn near a year now and I am very pleased with the way my truck runs on it. As far as the ethanol content from summer to winter well here in Michigan and northern Indiana the ethanol content of E85 is right around that 70 % mark no matter what time of the year it is, I have tested it with my test kit many many times from different stations in about a 50 square mile area and I always come up with the same results right around 70.
As far as setting up the tune for it pretty simple, go in and change the stoichiometric value in the tune to match what you have in the tank and your fuel trims should be right in line with what they were on gas as long as your injector values are correct in your tune and your airflow tables are dialed in well with the good injector data. I tweaked a few other tables to get my truck to start up a little easier in the cold and some timing adjustments but other than that pretty simple.
01-23-2011, 07:15 PM
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Been running it for darn near a year now and I am very pleased with the way my truck runs on it. As far as the ethanol content from summer to winter well here in Michigan and northern Indiana the ethanol content of E85 is right around that 70 % mark no matter what time of the year it is, I have tested it with my test kit many many times from different stations in about a 50 square mile area and I always come up with the same results right around 70.
As far as setting up the tune for it pretty simple, go in and change the stoichiometric value in the tune to match what you have in the tank and your fuel trims should be right in line with what they were on gas as long as your injector values are correct in your tune and your airflow tables are dialed in well with the good injector data. I tweaked a few other tables to get my truck to start up a little easier in the cold and some timing adjustments but other than that pretty simple.
As far as setting up the tune for it pretty simple, go in and change the stoichiometric value in the tune to match what you have in the tank and your fuel trims should be right in line with what they were on gas as long as your injector values are correct in your tune and your airflow tables are dialed in well with the good injector data. I tweaked a few other tables to get my truck to start up a little easier in the cold and some timing adjustments but other than that pretty simple.
What injectors are you running? Do you drive it daily?
