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Old Oct 31, 2008 | 08:57 AM
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keep hearing off this lately what is it and what's it all about ie pros and cons what mods are needed to use it
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Old Oct 31, 2008 | 09:03 AM
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E85 is a etanol bases gasoline with the sweedes are using A LOT now.
Good thing is the det point is a lot longer out, so you can get more agressive ignition = more bhp but negative side is the fueling is upped about 30-40% and it´s hard to find the det point because the area where it det´s is big, not like "normal" fuel.

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Old Oct 31, 2008 | 09:22 AM
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E85 is a etanol bases gasoline with the sweedes are using A LOT now.
Good thing is the det point is a lot longer out, so you can get more agressive ignition = more bhp but negative side is the fueling is upped about 30-40% and it´s hard to find the det point because the area where it det´s it´s big, not like "normal" fuel.

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yep understand is it just a question or remapping to run this fuel then or are other mods needed?
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Old Oct 31, 2008 | 09:25 AM
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The other negative side is of course the massive cylinder pressures created by adding more and more ignition due to the higher det resistance the fuel gives
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Old Oct 31, 2008 | 09:30 AM
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You'll need more headroom in your injectors and the rest of your fuel system.

Also, I don't think you can mix it, so if you want to run it you need to drain the system and change over to it and as its not that abundantly available, thats not very easy.
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Old Oct 31, 2008 | 09:32 AM
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Originally Posted by saph4be
yep understand is it just a question or remapping to run this fuel then or are other mods needed?
No other mods needed, other then to check if your injectors doesen´t have a problem with etanol bases gasoline, some injectors do.

Rich: yes, you are right, but hopefully people check that on the dyno
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thanks for all the info guys i can stop wondering now
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