[Healeys] Ethanol

[David Nock]

Check out this report/ road test of a comparison of E85 to Gas.

https://www.edmunds.com/fuel-economy/e85-vs-gasoline-comparison-test.html

Here at the shop we have been dealing with this problem for a long time with a lot of cars. And found the same problems with all of them, some worse than others.

Overheating due the removal of the gas and addition of the Ethanol. The Ethanol burns hotter which reduces emissions. This causes older cars to run hotter.

Lower gas mileage and lower performance 

Miss fires and  Lack of power due to the leaner mixture. The is especially worse on a Tri Carb Healey, the rear carb will lean out on a long hard run at a steady hight rpm. 

Also Ethanol has a very strong cleaning ability, So if you start using Ethanol in a older gas tank or a tank that has been sitting for while that has a lot of varnish build up. The Ethanol will go about its cleaning ability and clean up all that varnish in the tank and deposit it in the carburettors. 

I know that there are lots of those out there that have all the techy stuff. But I go by what I have learned by over 40 year of working on all British cars and lots of them.

The bottom line with 10 % Ethanol your Vintage car will run hotter, get worse fuel economy and may experience miss fires under heavy acceleration.


David Nock
healeydoc at sbcglobal.net
209 948 8767
www.britishcarspecialists.com

From: Bob Spidell 
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2017 7:43 AM
To: Oudesluys 
Cc: healeys 
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Ethanol

OK, now I be confused.  In the States, E10 is 10% ethanol, E85 is 85% ethanol, so E95 would be 95% ethanol.  Is that correct?



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From: "Oudesluys" <coudesluijs at chello.nl>
To: "healeys" <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2017 4:25:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Ethanol


Op 26-1-2017 om 23:59 schreef Oudesluys:
> It is not likely you will encounter real problems as you have 
> presumably used E85 for years


Should of course be E95


Kees Oudesluijs






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