Right now I have my car set up with
Zzp fmic
Zzp downpipe
Injen cai
Injen charge pipe
Zzp dyno tune @23.7psi
The car made 307whp and 332fpt My question, is it worth it going to e85 and what other mods will I need to support it

 

yeah its def worth it man. you have the full bolt ons so all youll need is a re tune. i recommend running e47 which is a 50/50 blend of 93 and e85. same power and you dont have to touch anything else on the car. if you run straight e85 some will say your fine others will say to get the cam with the fuel lobe or injectors. but youll be good to go in my eyes. that 307whp and 332wtq will go to 340--350whp and close to 400wtq

 

how would I go about filling it up just pull to a pump and pump half and half?

 

yep go to the pump and say you want to put 10 gallon in. put 5 gallon 93 and then 5 gallon e85 and done. then if you go on a longer trip or something its a lot easier because you can take 2 5 gallon jugs of e85 with you and thats 2 fill ups

 

so then I won't need to do anything else just go get it retuned?

 

You'd also want to upgrade your injector seals. Ethanol will eat away the old (white) ones.

 

i ran e47 for roughly 6 months where i used to live and i just got retuned but you might just want to upgrade your injector seals if you want to and you will be good to go. just have some side money for tires because 2nd gear is almost useless hahaha

 

hahaha 2nd gear is already like that can't imagine with e. Definitely going to need a clutch tho still on factory clutch with 69k

 

Make sure to get an ethanol checker from Summit or Ebay to check content. E can range from 70-90% so you would want to tweak the gas percentage to keep it as close as possible. Takes 2 minutes to check. The tester in less then $20. Cheap insurance.

 

Even with the ZFR, the most fun I had with my car was when i was on stock turbo running E85. the torque was insane

 

i still wish i lived where i was just for the e85 haha. torque was absolutely insane lol but i cant believe you said you had more fun with the e85 lol. imagine what a k04r or k04+ would be like on e85 lol very nice set up

 

what do u recommend full e85 or e47?

 

Should probably upgrade injectors as well while ur at it. And to get most out of it cams with bigger fuel lobe, but stock turbo probably wouldn't need to to max it out on E

 

you will get power gains from both. I was just lazy and would rather fill a whole tank with E85 than mix.

 

Same here i dont trust myself lol

 

Made up my mind I'm going to go full e85 thanks guys

 

I'm curious. Is this a switchable tune that you guys run so you don't always need high ethanol content or is this a one-way ticket and you have to deal with mixing fuel all the time?

 

don't most guys that run e85 install the meth kit as well?

 

I used HPT, so if I wanted to go back to gas, I just downloaded the gas tune.

 

Yeah I had two ECMs. so i would just swap them when needed

 

E47 rocks….

 

No, what's the point really? Main advantage is you don't have to run a meth kit because it's already so knock resistant.

So much cheaper too, than buying a cheap kit that if it fails bye bye engine or get an expensive one that has fail safes but is so much more expensive.

 

Going E85 would be the next logical step for me power wise, but it isnt that common in my area...FTL

 

I thought some guys use it to counteract the higher temp of combustion that takes place with E85. Thought it was supposed to be a good cooling mod to go along with E

 

No. E85 already does that so theres no reason to run both.