Re: [Chrysler300] Drivability Problems Related To Ethanol?

[Ray Jones <hurst300@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tony and all;
I'm sorry,  I don't  believe that the alcohol raises  the octane. If it 
did, it would be Sunoco 95 or something.
It does burn hotter, which is why alcohol fueled engines have 
everything in the combustion chamber chromed, to withstand the heat. It 
  doesn't help gas much tho.
Bottom  line is that when you burn anything you get X amount  of BTU's 
out of a given amount of fuel. And when you cut the Gas by 10% by 
adding Ethanol, you cut the octane, period.
We are paying more for less and having to buy more to go the same 
distance, period.
So, in our high performance engines, we just aren't getting the power 
(BTU's) we once did. It's just that simple.
You must compensate for the crap we are getting, being sold as gas.
I'm sure this will start arguments, but you can't get out more than you 
put in, basic physics.
Ray

On Aug 19, 2007, at 1:07 PM, Tony Rinaldi wrote:


  I asked the question from many people:

  Why do I have to advance the spark with this new lower octane fuel?

  Did not get a reasonable answer, until I asked Thomas White from 
Whitehall
  Restoration (Hopkinton, MA) when I met him at Carlisle last summer.

  He said that the increased alcohol had higher octane and was more 
volatile.
  The new gas burns hotter in hot weather and would do the opposite in 
cold
  weather.

  So, there it is. Maybe if your car is running like crap, in hot 
weather,
  when it never happened before:

  ADVANCE the timing??

  You all play nice now.

  Regards,
  Tony Rinaldi

 
   

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