Thread: another e-85 question dave are you there????

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Ya may not save any money as you will be consuming more fuel.
example...typical oval track racer might consume 5 gallons of gasoline in a race where the same race car on alcohol would require 10 gallons..
It's fairly new here in St.Louis and I know of only 1 place to get it here in our neighborhood so the juries still out. I've got a cop buddy that came in asking me about it last week and I didn't have any other answer other than what I explained above,but he is gonna try it out and let me know the results.
I'll post his results if and when he gets back to me.

That was not a politcal statement, it was a business statement.

While you were answering all your own questions you kind of missed the point that alchohol does not have as much specific energy as (per unit volume) gasoline so it takes more to use it. I'll bet it's just about a push on total cost.

After you make the change on a carbed motor you are trapped to having to use E85. Modern EFI cars that are E85 compatable actually sense when they are running E85 and auto adjust the injector commands accordingly on the fly.

Kitz