ORIGINAL: KidEpoxy
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
Yes glow plugs work with gasoline. In factg on the conversion and gas engine forums people have run pure gas with glow plugs, but it works better with a bit of methanol. Methanol is not the only fuel that will react with glow plugs. Obviously nitro does as the old all nitro control line speed racers would not work. Gasoline is a mix of chemicals including heptane which I think will also have a catalytic reaction.