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Old 11-09-2010, 11:29 PM  
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Originally Posted by Jon Oso View Post
I looked into converting my car solely to E85 a few years ago to take advantage of how cheap it was and how much higher the octane rating is (I want to say it's like 114 or around there if I remember correctly) but I just couldn't find somewhere close enough that had a pump, and it wasn't feasible to store a bunch of 55gal drums in my garage.

It is a lot cleaner, a lot cheaper, and would have only cost around $1000 bucks to get started and is obviously a lot better for the environment than burning regular fuel.

Only downside is you burn about 1/3 more fuel on average than you would with regular fuel.

I think that would be a nice progression into full electric but I doubt we'll see enough pumps selling straight E85 to make it work.
Mate of mine was running his hornet (AMC) on e85 and had so many problems with keeping enough fuel up to it, keeping it cool etc so he went to methanol no more problems.

I'm hoping enough people use the elec cars so I can still use cars that make the sound cars are meant to make.
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