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Old 06-01-2010, 03:08 AM
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Originally Posted by joenelson7687
Whats the point in doing this? Running e85 gives you horrible gas mileage so the money you would save on a gallon of fuel you will spend right again cause your gas mileage will drop by like 30%...seems dumb to me
what i thought at first too, but then read this ( http://www.change2e85.com/servlet/Page?template=Myths )which claims that you only have a 5-15% loss in fuel efficiency. they also claim that your engine should have no problems gasket and seal-wise with dealing with e85. but on the other hand they do sell the product, which makes me kind of wary
 
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Old 06-01-2010, 09:45 AM
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For a E85 car to only get 5% less miles per tank it would have to be getting about 25% bettter MPG. There is a reason why people have to run much larger injectors when converting to E85 and thats because you have to spray way more fuel into the cylinder.


There are a few A4 owners on AZ that have done the E85 thing. The one huge thing you have to watch out for is the fact that the ECU doesn't register knock when running E85, so it is very easy to blow up the motor if you push the adv timing too far since the ecu doesn't pull any timing, this also means the motor is not balancing out the 4 cylinders equally like it does on normal fuels.
 
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