RE: IML: Imperial running on .....E85??

["Frederick Joslin" <fljoslin@xxxxxxxx>]

The corrosion problem results from the fact that ethanol has a much greater affinity for water than does gasoline. The term miscible is used which means that water and ethanol will dissolve in each other in any proportion. I am sure that this changes when you put 15% gasoline in, but you can still get a lot more water into E85 than into gasoline.

Also, I do not believe that E85 would work well in a carb which has not been modified to use it. Dragsters which run on pure alcohol have special carbs, probably for corrosion, but also for fuel vaporization.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Hopkins"
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Subject: RE: IML: Imperial running on .....E85??
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 06:22:12 -0500


I know enough to be dangerous...I would not run
E85 in my Imperials due to various components
in the fuel system. As I understand it, ethanol
is very corrosive and in addition the ethanol
does not produce as good a fuel mileage as
gasoline.

I am certain one of our engineer types can give a technical advisory....

Matt Hopkins
66 Crown
75 Lebaron
92 Imperial

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Hi All...I found an interesting article
regarding making your own fuel for your car to
run on (http://running_on_alcohol.tripod.com/).
In the article it says that this fuel is 102
octane and references the fuel know as E85
which I believe is 85% ethanol and 15%
gasoline. Has anyone tried (??) to run their
car on E85 or better yet, has anyone tried
making their own fuel, as this article refers
to and using THAT fuel in an Imperial??? It
says that this "home-made" fuel is cleaner and
suposedly is cheaper (I guess) than getting the
Hi-Octane gas that our Imperials are happiest
drinking.
I'm too much of a chicken to try adding alcohol
to the gas tank just to see what will happen.
I've seen to many of those drag-race films
where the cars running alcohol explode as they
are going down the dragstrip. Does anyone have
ANY experience with this stuff being used in
their (non-drag raceing) cars???
Dan melnik



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