Thanks, Kees. Cogent comment, as usual.
I also worry about the corrosive effects of the higher ethanol content.
bs
Oudesluys wrote:
> No problem. You do not have an oxygen sensor in your Healey to weaken
> the mixture. The car runs on good old carbs without any electronics.
> Adjusting the mixture by screwing up or down the needle in the SU's
> will all that is neccesary if at all.
> The main problem is a higher accidity of exhaust gasses causing havoc
> on mild steel exhausts. This can also be a problem on pistons, rings
> and bores if the car is used a lot on short trips were the engine does
> not heat up fully.
> I ran 100% ethanol cars in the late 70's in experiments with existing
> cars that had modifications to the carbs (mainly jetting) and
> ignition. In this program we had cars running on natural gas, LPG,
> petrol and ethanol. In the end the 100% ethanol caused to much
> problems for existing cars, natural gas was to expensive and
> bothersome to store so only petrol (later mixed with a certain amount
> of ethanol) and LPG remained practical as they had done so before.
> Kees Oudesluijs
> NL
>
>
> Bob Spidell wrote:
>> Wonder what this'll do to our Healeys. I've probably run 10% gasahol
>> through my BJ8-you never really know what's coming out of the
>> pump--and survived, but the 'run too hot' part concerns me.
>>
>>
>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/business/energy-environment/05ethanol.html?hpw
>
>>
>>
>>
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