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.

 

thanks for the writeup ! .. so basicly , the entire fuel system ( fuel filter , fuel lines, etc ) was stock except for the walbro fuel pump and the injectors ?

 

Yes. Aftermarket items are fuel pump and injectors.

 

thanks razorlab !

 

Thanks for the writeup!

 

Im also thinking about going E85 in the next month. Any recommendations for fuel injectors? Ive heard FIC BlueMax are good. Thoughts?

 

very nice pictures and detail. ive been only running it for 2 years now but all is well here also.

very rarely do i see a customer have an issue with e85 clogging their fuel system. my car has seen
nothing but e85 for the last 2 years now.

 

The price is going up and up now though.. It used to be $1.40 when i first started buying it.. now its $3.00+

 

very nice! want to show this to all the people who tell me my tank and lines will rot cause of the ethanol

 

Great Thread.

 

You're one of the lucky ones! I guess I am too in that my main issue has been the black tar gooey **** collecting on my injector tips, everything else is pristine

 

End of argument. The accusation has been disproven so we can all move along now

Off-topic posts have been cleaned up.

 

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

 

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.

 

It's interesting most of the bad gunk reports I have seen are A. Not from west coast and B. seem to be mainly FIC rochestor based injectors.

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.