Tsunamix
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Hey Pir4te - you can get it at Bald Hills and Caboolture and on the south side as well now - all United group ones. I live 7km from the Bald hills one.
Let me see... greater resistance to detonation? check.... Greater heat absorption on evaporation ? check... Able to allow the engine to run more timing advance and higher compression? check and check... made from local content ? bio creation from sugar bagasse by CSR - check...$1.27 per liter ? Check.... Available at Servos all around the place now ? err sort of check...Can the parameters for running your engine on E85 be changed with a chip change ? Check.....so does that mean you can have an E85 tune in your glovebox and a 98Ron tune in the ECM and just swap between due to fuel availability ? check... and does are the byproducts of burning E85 better for the environment than all other types of currently available fuels including LPG, diesel and petrol ? Check....hmm... whats the downsides ?
Need Alcohol resistant rubber fuel lines - which became mandatory in 1999 in Australia.
Need to burn about 30% more to get the same total energy output so you need bigger injectors and bigger fuel pump.
But if you do need to burn more, do you get any flow on benefits from greater heat absorption and more timing and compression ratio? yes you do - in an engine with +8% timing and +1.0 compression ratio you get about 10% greater burn efficiency - so an engine that is optimised for E85 will be about 10% more efficient than one that is not optimised, and will consequently burn about 20% more fuel than a 98RON optimised engined, and generate about 15% more power.
And not need anywhere near as much intercooling.
Let me see... greater resistance to detonation? check.... Greater heat absorption on evaporation ? check... Able to allow the engine to run more timing advance and higher compression? check and check... made from local content ? bio creation from sugar bagasse by CSR - check...$1.27 per liter ? Check.... Available at Servos all around the place now ? err sort of check...Can the parameters for running your engine on E85 be changed with a chip change ? Check.....so does that mean you can have an E85 tune in your glovebox and a 98Ron tune in the ECM and just swap between due to fuel availability ? check... and does are the byproducts of burning E85 better for the environment than all other types of currently available fuels including LPG, diesel and petrol ? Check....hmm... whats the downsides ?
Need Alcohol resistant rubber fuel lines - which became mandatory in 1999 in Australia.
Need to burn about 30% more to get the same total energy output so you need bigger injectors and bigger fuel pump.
But if you do need to burn more, do you get any flow on benefits from greater heat absorption and more timing and compression ratio? yes you do - in an engine with +8% timing and +1.0 compression ratio you get about 10% greater burn efficiency - so an engine that is optimised for E85 will be about 10% more efficient than one that is not optimised, and will consequently burn about 20% more fuel than a 98RON optimised engined, and generate about 15% more power.
And not need anywhere near as much intercooling.
