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Oct 15, 2009 | 04:11 PM

n323er

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E85 Question

If you are going to run E 85 what has to be done to the car if anything

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Oct 15, 2009 | 04:13 PM

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Tune, Bigger (e85 friendly) Injectors, Possible Bigger Fuel Pump (depending on your level of performance).

Oct 15, 2009 | 04:42 PM

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Thanks...So like 80lb injectors and tune would be fine. What would happen with no tune????

Oct 15, 2009 | 04:44 PM

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didnt zzp say when switching to 80's for e85 the 60's tune is almost dead on? i mean thats their tune tho so who knows, im sure it would have to be tweaked.

Oct 15, 2009 | 04:48 PM

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didnt zzp say when switching to 80's for e85 the 60's tune is almost dead on? i mean thats their tune tho so who knows, im sure it would have to be tweaked.

this is a bad way of going about doing it.

Oct 15, 2009 | 06:24 PM

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Thanks...So like 80lb injectors and tune would be fine. What would happen with no tune????

Gasoline and e85 have to be run at VERY different Air/Fuel Ratios.

Stoichiometric air-fuel ratios

Gasoline - 14.7:1

Ethanol - 9:1

I've never done it... but I'm betting that if you just started pumping e85 into your car without a tune, you'd kill your car from running extremely too lean. But iono... I don't have much experience with e85.