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

On the drag films you are talking about, the exploding engines were probably
running nitromethane, not ethanol/alcohol.  
  
I started doing a little homework on E85 a little while back, but since it
isn't available anywhere near me at this point, I haven't gotten in too
deep.  However, my wife and I have noticed an improvement in MPG on the
daily drivers running E10 instead of the previous MTBE mix.  That just tells
me that the 10% ethanol probably has a higher BTU than MTBE.

Rob McCall
'67 LeBaron

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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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