E85 subsidies. Whats everyone's thought?
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I'm still in the collecting parts stage and my motor setup depends on the fuel that I'm going to use. I was going to run around 11:1 for my boosted block on the corn. Now if corn prices increase to race gas prices, or worse gets dropped entirely, what is everyone that's running corn going to do?
I'm still in the collecting parts stage and my motor setup depends on the fuel that I'm going to use. I was going to run around 11:1 for my boosted block on the corn. Now if corn prices increase to race gas prices, or worse gets dropped entirely, what is everyone that's running corn going to do?
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I attached a picture of my GTO's piston after running E85 for three thousand miles. The piston is untouched other than a rag to soak up the anti-freeze that accumulated after pulling the heads.
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The picture below is the cylinder to the left (#3) three thousand miles earlier. The carbon build-up was untouched by human hands. The E85 cleaned the piston!
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After seeing the difference I understood why they call regular fuels "high carbon."
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I believe there was a thread on e85performance.net about a year ago where there was government talk of a replacement fuel similar to methanol for use as an alternative. But, without doing a lot of searching I cannot say exactly.
Maybe some ground up and boiled Zombies would do the trick!
Maybe some ground up and boiled Zombies would do the trick!
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To the OP I say go for it because you'll just be paying a little more if anything for the ethanol and I see benefits for you. In North Texas I find quite often at least and even down around here sometimes