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Old 06-01-2011 | 06:12 PM
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Default RE: E85 might be E70 ???

Sunny Side Denatured Alcohol is 86% ETHANOL and does NOT work without adding
Thats the part that has me scratchin my head,
why MY E85 tests are running fine with no methanol
while most folks know/experienced ethanol not firing a glow plug.

About the only thing I can figure is the gasoline is the only difference.
Maybe the 15%gas dont DIRECTLY help the glowplug fire,
but we know gas will run hotter than alcohol, and my engine was indeed running hotter.
Maybe the hotter runs give the lil extra oomph the plug needs to fire on Ethanol decently


It looks like we used the same engine for our E85 tests, ST gs40 right?
So why does mine run while yours needed the plug constantly lit / added methanol