Thread: e85 swap questions

Originally Posted by 98ChainStretcher

You could always drive a prius.......... That would leave more gas for the rest of us.

Haha! I could not drive a prius.

Originally Posted by adecker

LOL! There is no if in that statement. Its amazing. End of story.

Can't wait!

Originally Posted by BrandonHall10

Haha! I could not drive a prius.



Can't wait!

And you can always come down here, I have HP tuners so I can get you setup on corn, theee s a lot of places in tuscon that sell e85 too

Originally Posted by 91parkave

And you can always come down here, I have HP tuners so I can get you setup on corn, theee s a lot of places in tuscon that sell e85 too

I live less than 4 miles and 8 minutes from the nearest e85 station. I'm going to have to do the conversion soon!

I was thinking of doing the 42.5 injectors so I didn't have to tune right away. Do the injector swap, and a pulley drop. Run that for a while to save up for my own tuner. I will probably hit you up for some tuning advice once I get there though.

Originally Posted by 04lss

Thats my plan, maybe headers, and then work on my handling (swaybars etc) until i get my taxes back and go turbo .
there's only one e85 station here close to my house, but the owner is running it in his car

Handling?! What's that?

I'm really looking forward to the octane gains. All I can get here is 91. Unless I want to pay $10/gallon for 110. Even with my listed mods, I'm still seeing 2°-3° of knock near 5k rpm on a stock pulley.

Stupid CAN gas!

Originally Posted by 04lss

is it at shift?

I don't think so. I think it's all heat related. When I do a WOT run before the engine is fully warmed up, I see 0° throughout the RPM range. As soon as she gets hot, I see blips at the upper RPM range. Not much though. Before CAI and headers, I would see 4°+ degrees under at 2500 RPM during a hill climb (moderate load). IAT's were at or near 130°. It get's hot as balls here. I think if I had 93 vs 91 that couple degrees of knock would go away.