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Old Sep 18, 2011 | 01:41 PM
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Cause i am lazy and dont feel like doing a full retune. Maybe one of these days when i am bored i may
Sounds like a good enough reason to me, I understand the not wanting to do anything I absolutely dont have to these days all too well
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Old Sep 18, 2011 | 02:11 PM
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Originally Posted by BlackGMC
I just noticed a gas station 3 miles away sells E85. I had a half of tank of gas soooooo i bought 1 gallon to see what it would do. Just wondering if anyone mixes e85 with regular gas
nope, im already at 97 duty cycle. why not go for the full tank? if your injectors will handle it. everyone i know that has gone to e85 likes it. i choose not to because i dont want to be put into a situation where i dont have a laptop and have no access to e85 while im sitting on a corn tune
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Old Sep 18, 2011 | 04:02 PM
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I can tell you the E85 isn't going any where close to my new set up.
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Old Sep 18, 2011 | 04:08 PM
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What do you have against E85?
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Old Sep 18, 2011 | 04:56 PM
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Originally Posted by TXsilverado
nope, im already at 97 duty cycle. why not go for the full tank? if your injectors will handle it. everyone i know that has gone to e85 likes it. i choose not to because i dont want to be put into a situation where i dont have a laptop and have no access to e85 while im sitting on a corn tune
My injectors should handle a full tank. The 44s are only at 67% with mu current setup.



After thinking about this for a little while today. I thi k i am gonna try 10% e85 for my next tank. See what my trims do, maybe richen up the stioch a little bit. Then try 20% after that, then keep increasing it each tank by 10%. Also i was thinking about adding about .5-1* of timing per 10% e85.
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Old Sep 18, 2011 | 05:07 PM
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Originally Posted by BlackGMC
My injectors should handle a full tank. The 44s are only at 67% with mu current setup.



After thinking about this for a little while today. I thi k i am gonna try 10% e85 for my next tank. See what my trims do, maybe richen up the stioch a little bit. Then try 20% after that, then keep increasing it each tank by 10%. Also i was thinking about adding about .5-1* of timing per 10% e85.
I would wait until after our track day so you can see what your setup runs before experimenting.
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Old Sep 18, 2011 | 11:16 PM
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I hope im not hijacking this thread here. I'm curious about running e85 to pass the sniffer test. Please elaborate.
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Old Sep 19, 2011 | 04:42 AM
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Originally Posted by rjwz28
What do you have against E85?
Me personally, I don't feel like going back and forth jacking with the tune. I run '93 Octane or better, and that's it.

Like they say, K.I.S.S.
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Old Sep 19, 2011 | 04:52 AM
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I've only run it once and it seemed a little sluggish; I don't think my E85 tune is as fine-tuned as my 91 tune. I'll be sticking with 91 myself for a while, as E85 isn't available at any gas stations where I live right now.
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Old Sep 19, 2011 | 08:25 PM
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You could always get the alcohol sensor and set your tune up to run both kinds of fuel automatically. Mine can auto-adjust for any mix up to E85 I think. Mine's still not programmed right, it's a turd off the line but really powerful in the upper-range RPMs on E85.

E85 certainly burns much cleaner than 93, but as far as the cat/non-cat difference I couldn't tell you.
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