And worst case scenario when you immediately throw a check engine light because your O2 sensor is wondering WTF is going on since E85 needs a totally different A/F than E10 or discover that E85 isn't always 85% ethanol since it won't run worth a crap in the winter and need help from the forum and you're trying to figure out how to install a ethanol sensor in your fuel tank to convert your vehicle to an FFV, you can always just create a new forum username and avoid any "ha ha, told you so" moments.
Well, Florida. So..And worst case scenario when you immediately throw a check engine light because your O2 sensor is wondering WTF is going on since E85 needs a totally different A/F than E10 or discover that E85 isn't always 85% ethanol since it won't run worth a crap in the winter and need help from the forum and you're trying to figure out how to install a ethanol sensor in your fuel tank to convert your vehicle to an FFV, you can always just create a new forum username and avoid any "ha ha, told you so" moments.
Given time until enough Mavericks are on the street I'm sure quite a few people will be doing at minimum tunes, bolt-on intake/downpipe/intercooler mods, and maybe even methanol/water injection kits. Assuming there's enough room under the hood for all this stuff. I'm envious, it will be fun to follow the sort of performance improvements possible, as an old guy I hope they're well documented so I can live vicariously through them...
yeah, you know people do this thing called tuning? Its amazing. You can actually scale fuel flow by way of the injectors and fuel densityAnd worst case scenario when you immediately throw a check engine light because your O2 sensor is wondering WTF is going on since E85 needs a totally different A/F than E10 or discover that E85 isn't always 85% ethanol since it won't run worth a crap in the winter and need help from the forum and you're trying to figure out how to install a ethanol sensor in your fuel tank to convert your vehicle to an FFV, you can always just create a new forum username and avoid any "ha ha, told you so" moments.
Supplemental meth injection is pretty nice. I've only used it when I didn't live in an area where I couldn't easily get ethanol for factory fueling system. I just found the safeguards of the factory fueling system and logic to be superior. For example a system might not have any safegaurds in if you run out of meth. You may be running high boost, high timing, and you may also pull factory fueling since you're running so much meth. So you run out, and then you could start knocking. Or there's a couple rare instances I've seen where their controller failed and filled a cylinder(s) and hydrolocked on methanol. Rare case, but have seen it happen. So just have to be vigilant.
It could be argued both are pretty great lol.
I think ethanol can be GREAT... If produced smartly (i.e., using switchgrass, etc.) rather than to get tax credits for growing corn for stability production by industrialized farming operations. "While corn-based ethanol contains scarcely as much energy as is required to produce it, fuel made from switchgrass, a native prairie plant found in the Great Plains region, contains more than 5 times as much energy than it takes to grow it and refine it into ethanol."Hopefully no one!
If a vehicle isn't designed from the ground up to be a high ethanol running vehicle, it means the ethanol can eat through seals, coatings, and can even cause internal engine damage. Ethanol is basically a super solvent.
Ethanol is also just crappy all around, it has a way shorter "shelf life" than regular gasoline as the ethanol slowly starts to come out of suspension and its way more likely to get contaminated by water because ethanol is super hydrophilic even wanting to suck the moisture out of the humid air in a thank that isn't topped off. Pretty much all vehicles that run high levels of ethanol will have shorter life spans, its the latest way to ensure planned obsolescence. But on the plus side, the more ethanol in the fuel the lower your fuel economy will be because its energy density is lower than gasoline... oh wait, that's another negative, heh!
And if Ford finds out you're running more than E15, they'll also invalidate your warranty and blacklist the vehicle. But hey, at least ethanol in our fuel isn't almost entirely made from corn which uses a crazy amount of water and pesticides and fossil fuel to grow... oh wait, it is!
tl;dr: ethanol sucks! boooooooooooooo!
