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Old 01-23-2023, 01:19 PM  
sarettah
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just for your information

https://www.bellperformance.com/blog...moval-additive

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Ethanol is mixed into a ready gasoline "feedstock" at the fuel terminal. Typically, it's done by splash blending in fuel trucks. The ethanol itself is trucked in by big rig or rail car (since it can't go through the same pipelines as other parts of the fuel). Once it is blended into gasoline, there's no feasible way to separate ethanol from the gasoline. Once it's in, it's in to stay.

Unless.....it absorbs so much water that it undergoes phase separation. In that case, both the ethanol and the water will separate out together. Now you've got all or some of the ethanol out of the gasoline. Unfortunately, the gasoline left behind has lost a lot of its octane value because the ethanol will strip out valuable fuel components as it is leaving.

So adding water to gasoline just to remove the ethanol you don't want is not a good idea. It would do far more harm than good.
so you will end up with some pretty poor performing gasoline that will probably hurt the scooter more than help it

the ethanol is not a problem unless you have gas just sitting in the tank for a long period of time so the better solution is that if you are going to sit the bike for a while, drain the tank or add stabilizer

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