12P Flex Fuel Discussion

[Dylan]

If only high ethanol fuel was available in my city. E10 is as exciting as it gets.

[VL400]

We all think about things differently, I dont think it added any confusion as good info was posted!

An E85 servo is about 10kms from me Pity its now more expensive per L than 98 octane, it has become very uneconomical.

[vlad01]

we have a few around in melbourne and its the same price as e10/91

[Gareth]

I have to travel about 20ks and like vlad said, about the same cost as low end fuel. Still, I'm sure for most people its cheaper than methanol and street legal as well. It a great option for a track car - one of the most popular uses of all the hard delco work on here

Im watching this topic with great interest and am happy to test anything

[VX L67 Getrag]

Well I just filled my car up for the 1st time with E85 at the local United servo the other day & was gob smacked when it was 10c more then 98Ron & considering it's a bi-product & can only get 60% of the distance of equivalent amount of 91-98Ron from it!

I think purely for FI vehicles to get that extra bit safely if the price stays that high is really it's only reasonable time to use it IMHO.

[Dylan]

It certainly has it's place but that's not in a daily driver I don't think so.

[vlad01]

I have to disagree with that. I know of at least 2 people who run e85 as a daily fuel for years already in relatively stock commodores. Their comment is they'd never go back to petrol unless absolutely necessary.

[Dylan]

Sounds good what's maxe them like it so much? I was thinking from a cost side might jt doesn't slund economical. But a weekender of performance engine you'd be mad not to.

[vlad01]

Its resistance to knock and overall performance increase.

The guy I know fairly well has gone modded L67 route just the other week and he is a big advocate of e85. Should see some good results.

[Holden202T]

yeah boosted motor is a perfect example of E85 .... even if you had a commodore with 13:1 compression N/A then E85 would be perfect and if tuned to suit it, you would probably find that you could come close in economy, because you are making more power from it you can actually use less throttle to cruise with it so should get better economy, the question is then do you gain enough performance / economy to offset the extra usage!