Y'all are wrong about ethanol (with photos)

[jpv74]

I ride and restore antique motorcycles. The main tool I use to get them running is a bread bag tie. Thirty days sitting and the pilot jets plug up. The stripped bread tie run up thru the pilot and all is well. Doesn’t happen with non ethanol. If I run ethanol gas, I shut the petcocks off a good distance from home and let it run until it quits, problem solved.

Go on Amazon and buy a set of reamers. Yes the bread tie is great but the full set of reamers are super cheap and come in a handy case

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[YazYaz]

My father-in-law moved from a home to an apartment. We mowed his grass one last time, then he gave me the lawn mower. I didn't need it right away so I put it in storage. Before I put it in storage, I drained the fuel tank.

Regular, 87 pump gas.
This was Fall of 2020.

I put about 3/4 of a gallon of regular gas in this plastic jug. Left the cap loose, purposefully cross threaded so vapors could escape, but keep rain water out. Then put it in a sunny area of my backyard. The yard is fenced and I have no kids so save the lecture for someone else. As expected, it evaporated quickly at first, then more slowly as the volatiles ran out. Today I had about 12-16 oz of heavy oil left that was no longer evaporative. It smelled sweet, not entirely unpleasant, but you knew it was petroleum or turpentine. I put all but a tiny bit of this this with my used oil to take to reclamation.

Started with this much fuel (red line). Ended with a tablespoon of thick, heavy, tar, molasses like slow moving in the bottom of the jug.

I had some 80% corn ethanol in my medicine cabinet I purchased in 2020 at the onset of the pandemic. I didn't use but a trivial amount of it until today. I opened the container in 2020. Note how crystal clear it was today.

I poured this much into my jug of regular gas residue. A few ounces

After 10 minutes:

After 15 minutes:

Ethanol DOES NOT add gum, junk, varnish, or sludge to your fuel system.

IT REMOVES IT. 100%. AND IN SHORT ORDER.

IF YOU START with an old, dirty, gummed up engine and/or fuel system, ethanol will clean it so fast and so well, it may clog your filters or injectors. But the "headache" stems from the gasoline, not the ethanol.

Use ethanol, at least in part, in a new engine and it will keep it clean(er).

Why did you post this?

 

[LSchicago]

I use E85 in my supercharged Mustang. It loves it.

 

[GPSMan]

I use E85 in my supercharged Mustang. It loves it.

But did you do an E85 tune for it to maximize the power?

The fuel injectors in the hybrid Maverick are 25% oversized and the O2 sensors will adjust for increased ethanol, if desired. Or if you accidentally put some in. I have not tried it. But should run on up to 70%. But theoretical at this point since I haven't tried it myself.

I also don't race. So may never try it.

 

[Robert C]

OK so you're a corn farmer.
But did you order a Maverick?

 

[LSchicago]

But did you do an E85 tune for it to maximize the power?

The fuel injectors in the hybrid Maverick are 25% oversized and the O2 sensors will adjust for increased ethanol, if desired. Or if you accidentally put some in. I have not tried it. But should run on up to 70%. But theoretical at this point since I haven't tried it myself.

I also don't race. So may never try it.

Without a tune you can't run E85, even on a stock Mustang. Being that mine is supercharged, it has a Custom Twin Hellcat pump return fuel system with bigger injectors and oversize fuel rails too. The OEM fuel system is good to 500 RWHP on E85 with just a tune. Over that you need a full fuel system. Now at 900+RWHP. My Tune requires a minimum of 70% alcohol to go wide open.

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