Stock TC's on E85
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PS. OP, please tell me you are not going to just throw E85 in your car without a tune
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I was just wondering what kind of mileage people are getting. I know full e should be alot less. just wondering how much.
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Well after doing a little bit of research i found that e85 is about .80 less than premium in kansas in general. I know from calculating it out here in MI that it costs less to run premium(its 1$ a gal cheaper here). In order for e85 to be cheaper the price of it has to be approximately 33% less than premium. which if gas was at 4$, e85 would have to be at 2.88 to compensate for using more. However since your getting tuned keeping it out of boost becomes a lot harder. As for running 50/50, cost to fill up with gas vs the mix is 52est. vs 46.8est respectively. Lots of variables in there tho.
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I'm waiting for Vince to experiment a little more before I try an e85 tune. I hope that happens before it gets to hot here. As far as running it on a bone stock cobalt with no tune, I wouldn't recommend that at all. There are to many variables when playing with this stuff that our stock computer cannot compensate for. I think your money would be wasted.
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He has just now started running full e85, so its still pretty new. I want to see a little more before I commit. I want to see more people make the switch aswell and see there outcome aswell.
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Exactly that's why I want to wait a little longer, that's not very much time. up until a couple months ago people were running mix tunes. Im not debating the fact it can be done, I just want to wait until the absolute most is pulled out of the tune.
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