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Old Dec 8, 2007 | 02:52 PM
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Talking ever heard of this!!!!!!!!
a guy i just ran into said he is running e85 in his grand national.........car is a consistant 9.66et 1.36 60 ft or something like that .....
he told me that i can run a better fuel pump in the ls1 car....with e85 and alcohal injection and the numbers after tuning are awesome..... is this something you reccomend????
my car is a 6.0 iron block with sts kit 9.1.1 all other mods are in sig.....does this sound right???
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Old Dec 8, 2007 | 03:21 PM
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do a search, lots of big power cars have done it...
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Old Dec 9, 2007 | 07:43 AM
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i did it. seems to work very well. i'm in the process of upgrading the fuel system now, it runs out fuel around 5000 rpm.
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 06:30 AM
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ya did a little reaserch over the weekend and it seems like tons of people are converting over to e85
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 12:06 PM
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yeah....you have to run alot more pump...i was looking into it and i would need to switch to a belt drive pump and two sets of injectors to run alcohol or e85...so im just sticking with what i got.
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 02:16 PM
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yeah thats a lot of money in a fuel system......i would like to do something more realistic....
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Old Dec 10, 2007 | 03:44 PM
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E85 is the future.
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E85 is the future.
Only is the government keeps subsidising it. It would be way more expensive if the government wasn't paying to keep them making it

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the government has subsidising farmers for decades, i dont think it will be a problem. and even if it where to stop we could always make our own.
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E85 has an octane rating of like 100-105 all the time from what I have read. Boosted cars love E85 I bet.
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mine just loves it. i just need to install the new duel fuel pump.
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