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Can I make my own E85 or E98? Please help!

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Old Jul 2, 2011 | 12:36 AM
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Question Can I make my own E85 or E98? Please help!

I live in both the US and China..
my EVO is in the US and is tuned on E85, that is why I love E85 so much
So I also travel back to China and do own a car back home.. I want to turbo charge that car too..
And I just think E85 or Exx (>85) is such a good type of fuel! However, I know for sure there is no fuel with high ethanol content in China, so I searched on websites selling industrial materials and found the 99.7% anhydrous ethanol to be cheap! cheaper than gasoline per unit weight (or volume). So I think I should mix some E85.. But then I was thinking, hell, why don't I just burn that E99.7? I am not sure if it is a problem if that 0.3% is something neither gasoline nor ethanol. I do know for a fact that people run E98, so the worst case is that I mix my own E98 in China..

But the final question is that : is the 99.7% anhydrous ethanol the correct type of ethanol to be used to mix with gasoline and make E98 or E85? or is there any other kind of ethanol should be used?
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Old Jul 2, 2011 | 08:31 AM
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ethanol is ethanol, anhydrous simply means no water and that's a good thing.
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Old Jul 2, 2011 | 08:31 AM
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Just run the anhydrous ethanol straight up.

Google -> anhydrous ethanol
http://www.sseassociation.org/compon...id=62&catid=10
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Old Jul 5, 2011 | 07:53 AM
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Will one of you Alcohol Guru's give this man some comment???
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Old Jul 5, 2011 | 10:49 AM
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is it possible to buy this anhydrous ethanol here un US??? (chicago)
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Old Jul 6, 2011 | 09:35 AM
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In thinking to make my own E85 here in my country (El Salvador) but, m i don´t know how!!!It will be easy to make it??
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Old Jul 9, 2011 | 12:09 AM
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MIX PURE ETHANOL 85%
15% GASOLINE,
and you have E85
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Old Jul 22, 2011 | 07:04 AM
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Originally Posted by dragers
MIX PURE ETHANOL 85%
15% GASOLINE,
and you have E85

Thanx Steve. Creo que tomaré ese camino igual que tu . because I have problems with my car, too much knock with our gas in Central America.
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