Gentlemen:
After reading your postings, I did a bit of research, and confirmed that e85 is somewhat corrosive as is gasoline.
The point to my posting was to encourage BS42 to make sure he has all the facts before he fills up his GP with E85.
I do know that E85 operable vehicles that are OEM do have different components in their fuel systems to make the vehicle work properly with E85. Common sense says they would not do it if it was not necessary.
While I do not claim to be a know it all, I have seen a lot of bad advice given out on internet forums over the years, and would not want to be the victim of it.
You can run a diesel engine on kerosene if you need to, but that does not mean doing it would be right or good for the car long term.
E-85 ethanol is used in engines modified to accept higher concentrations of ethanol. Such flexible-fuel engines are designed to run on any mixture of gasoline or ethanol with up to 85% ethanol by volume. The primary differences from non-FFVs is the elimination of bare magnesium, aluminum, and rubber parts in the fuel system, the use of fuel pumps capable of operating with electrically conductive (ethanol) instead of non-conducting dielectric (gasoline) fuel, specially-coated wear-resistant engine parts, fuel injection control systems having a wider range of pulse widths (for injecting approximately 60% more fuel), the selection of stainless steel fuel lines (sometimes lined with plastic), the selection of stainless steel fuel tanks in place of terne fuel tanks, and, in some cases, the use of acid-neutralizing motor oil. For vehicles with fuel-tank mounted fuel pumps, additional differences to prevent arcing, as well as flame arrestors positioned in the tank's fill pipe, are also sometimes used.
Don
