I would think that you would have to have seals and gaskets that could
stand up to the solvent effects and deterioration of Alcohol.
That was a big problem a while back, during the oil crunch, when they
brought out gasahol. I think, and can stand corrected, that it was 10%
alcohol to Gasoline mix.
Well, teh problems that sprung up was gas leaks around the fuel and mosting
carburation system. The alcohol eat up the gaskets.
Q
At 07:27 AM 8/1/97 -0700, patrick bailey wrote:
>Would we have to rebuild our engines to run alcohol?I understand that
>Indy cars have to have their engines flushed out with gasoline after
>each race due to the corrosive effects of the stuff they are
>running,which I think is methynol...Pat
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