[Healeys] Ugh

[Bob Spidell]

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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