Fuel system after 3+ years on E85
Aug 31, 2011, 07:23 AM
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This must be a lie. Everyone knows that E85 is corrosive and screws your car up. Why run a fuel that is american made/grown, acts like race fuel and is cheaper then regular at the pump.
You sir are spreading mis-information and its not fair. Now everyone will want to run E85 and screw their fuel system up. LOL.
Good stuff. Glad someone did this. I will post links in this thread when someone spouts off bu!!**** about E85 not being good. Thanks.
You sir are spreading mis-information and its not fair. Now everyone will want to run E85 and screw their fuel system up. LOL.
Good stuff. Glad someone did this. I will post links in this thread when someone spouts off bu!!**** about E85 not being good. Thanks.
Sep 5, 2011, 10:13 AM
#38
This must be a lie. Everyone knows that E85 is corrosive and screws your car up. Why run a fuel that is american made/grown, acts like race fuel and is cheaper then regular at the pump.
You sir are spreading mis-information and its not fair. Now everyone will want to run E85 and screw their fuel system up. LOL.
Good stuff. Glad someone did this. I will post links in this thread when someone spouts off bu!!**** about E85 not being good. Thanks.
You sir are spreading mis-information and its not fair. Now everyone will want to run E85 and screw their fuel system up. LOL.
Good stuff. Glad someone did this. I will post links in this thread when someone spouts off bu!!**** about E85 not being good. Thanks.
Sep 13, 2011, 11:26 AM
#43
My injectors on my SRT4 after running 7500 miles of e85 were covered in black "gunk", but that could be the e85 pushing all the garbage through on the old fuel lines...car always ran great, and evo has been e85 for 5k miles now!
e85 for president! haha
e85 for president! haha
Sep 13, 2011, 11:31 AM
#44
Here's a question for your guys that really has me thinking...
I've been working with a local down here with his build and when we first took his setup apart, which had been running for thousands of miles on E85, the FIC 1050's were perfectly clean and basically looked brand new. Fast-forward to the end of the build and 2k miles of driving, the same FIC 1050's got gunked up really bad with that black almost tar-like substance.
Was the E85 eating away at the fuel line internals during the 8 months the car was down?
Did he get a bad tank of E85 that used very poor gasoline mixed with the ethanol?
Besides for one tank of E85 in Louisiana that car has always run on E85 from Kroger stations in the DFW-area since making the switch from pump gas. Very low mileage and well maintained IX.
I've been working with a local down here with his build and when we first took his setup apart, which had been running for thousands of miles on E85, the FIC 1050's were perfectly clean and basically looked brand new. Fast-forward to the end of the build and 2k miles of driving, the same FIC 1050's got gunked up really bad with that black almost tar-like substance.
Was the E85 eating away at the fuel line internals during the 8 months the car was down?
Did he get a bad tank of E85 that used very poor gasoline mixed with the ethanol?
Besides for one tank of E85 in Louisiana that car has always run on E85 from Kroger stations in the DFW-area since making the switch from pump gas. Very low mileage and well maintained IX.
Sep 13, 2011, 11:35 AM
#45
Here's a question for your guys that really has me thinking...
I've been working with a local down here with his build and when we first took his setup apart, which had been running for thousands of miles on E85, the FIC 1050's were perfectly clean and basically looked brand new. Fast-forward to the end of the build and 2k miles of driving, the same FIC 1050's got gunked up really bad with that black almost tar-like substance.
Was the E85 eating away at the fuel line internals during the 8 months the car was down?
Did he get a bad tank of E85 that used very poor gasoline mixed with the ethanol?
Besides for one tank of E85 in Louisiana that car has always run on E85 from Kroger stations in the DFW-area since making the switch from pump gas. Very low mileage and well maintained IX.
I've been working with a local down here with his build and when we first took his setup apart, which had been running for thousands of miles on E85, the FIC 1050's were perfectly clean and basically looked brand new. Fast-forward to the end of the build and 2k miles of driving, the same FIC 1050's got gunked up really bad with that black almost tar-like substance.
Was the E85 eating away at the fuel line internals during the 8 months the car was down?
Did he get a bad tank of E85 that used very poor gasoline mixed with the ethanol?
Besides for one tank of E85 in Louisiana that car has always run on E85 from Kroger stations in the DFW-area since making the switch from pump gas. Very low mileage and well maintained IX.
Not sure if it's the injectors or a coincidence.
I believe, if I recall correctly, in the "E85 gunk" thread somebody had got the gunk looked at chemically and it was petro based, so something from the fuel prcoess and not the fuel system parts I believe.
Last edited by razorlab; Sep 13, 2011 at 11:39 AM.