algws6

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how are the fuel noids going to react to the new fuel? anyone having the plungers swell?

Nitro Dave's Nitrous Outlet

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What new fuel? If the fuel is cut with ethonal its going to swell the fuel solenoid.
Dave

Bad Habit Bird

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The government now requires the additive MTBE to be replaced with Ethanol for fuel How much Ethanol has to be present for the plungers to swell?

Nitro Dave's Nitrous Outlet

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Since when was this put in place.. I think if that was the case we would be seeing a bunch of problems by now.
Dave

98redorangeta

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I think they just added a small amout not enough to hurt any thing I have heard about them puting in ethenol to replace mtbe but i assumed they wouldnt just screw every one and use enough to make all the seals in the fuel system go to ****.

bowtieman81

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Most ethanol blends are 10% ethanol, 90% gas. I have seen quite a few pumps that don't even say that it is blended.

860 Performance

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Yup thats right 10% now! I think only time will tell.
Also, nothing to do with piston swelling, but one of new englands top LS1 tuners, (slowhawk) is saying that he is cutting back on timing on all his tunes because of the ethanol too. He has a post about it in the eastern section.
Vinny

digitalsolo

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Ethanol has been in the gas in the midwest for a while now (several years). I would think if the small concentrations mattered, we'd have seen some major problems by now.

MrDude_1

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gasoline can contain up to 10% and still be sold as standard gasoline.

its been used for the last few decades thruout the entire midwest without issue, so i seriously doubt we're suddenly going to see huge problems.

Reject

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all of the gas staitons here in dallas have to have 10% in, they made it a law or some **** like that, but it's mandatory to have it in there now over here

algws6

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i wonder what is in our gas here in El Paso. i have had two different solonoids swell on me, a TNT & NX.

Dragframe

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my gas ia ALLLLLLL 10% ethonal here.. been that way for as long as i can remember... f**king wyoming

Reject

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quick question like what happens with the noids swelling up? dose it not let fuel get in or lets fuel leak or what?

GM Muscle

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It won't let any fuel by. I had a problem with Sunoco 94 awhile back because of the ethanol content. I switched to a nitromethane compatable piston and it has been fine (TNT PP noid).

Reject

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damn! so it's injecting 100% pure nitrous! owch

GM Muscle

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Yep, crazy part is the nitrous hit normal with no detonation or anything then it started to feel alittle "flat". I look down and the O2s were reading .050mv. I can't believe the motor survived.

SmaknaSS

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I'm glad I have a stand alone.

sditch

I just had a Problem with my NX Fuel Silonoid piston swell up causing a way to lean for comfort problem. Found out it probley caused by the ethonal in the fuel here in Houston. I switch to Race fuel just in case for now until they find a solution....

Robert56

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Yeppers, I have been hearing of more and more swelling issues. We should now be servicing noids a little more often? Ricky says that NX is working on a material which will be more compatible with ethanol and other coming/allready in place additives. Most of the country is now 10% ethanol, and talk on up coming new cars that will run on 80% ethanol. How that's going to work, who knows?
Robert

DynotuneN2O

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We hope to release a new material that so far has tested out extremely well! We will keep you posted!

Dean