Ethanol ?

[Persalls]

`Hi Guys!

I just wonder if you have any knowledge of running a `Tona T2 on ethanol?

Now, with extreme gas-prices, you have to look around for alternatives and here in Sweden alot of people is running a lot of different cars on, atleast, 50% ethanol. Very often you don´t have to modify anything, thats the case on my father-in-laws Peugeot V6, but if you do you usually higher the fuelpressure. Is it common in the states ? I understand that all of Brazil runs on ethanol and that there´s alot of manufacturers building/ soon to build bi-fuel cars with some fuel/ignintion management system thats expensive and obviuosly not always neccesary !. I know of people running tuned Saab and Volvo turbos whithout any probs or mods and even found a smother ride with ethanol so it´s worth a try but I would love your opinion as TurboDodges are VERY few in Sweden !!



/Best regards Per

[Shelby5150]

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[whistlin']

We have 10% available here at the pumps. A few places offer E85 but not very many. Most of the state cars run on E85, FFV are becoming more widespread.
I don't know the answer to your question. I know ethanol has a lower BTU content and higher octane. So by richening the mixture you can compensate for the BTU difference.

[Persalls]

Hi!

In some way it does but then there, depending om who you ask, is/could be an issue of E85 beeing agressive to some plastics and elder injectors made of poor material. I don´t know if this is just shooting blanks from the goverment since they´re getting much less tax-income if people start using E85, atleast here in Sweden, and for awhile anyway so I was kinda interested if there is any wider knowledge of using E85 in turbo Dodges ?
I understand that changing the fuelfilter is not optional since E85 cleans out alot of old dirt but hey, that´s a good reason to do it anyway..

/Best Per