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Originally Posted by Nerys
thats all the water it took? I was going to mix 5 gallons of 92 octane with a gallon of water so I would end up with 4.5 gallons roughly of 88octane which is close enough to the 87 octane regular.
I did not realize it took soo little water to cause the phase seperation to occur. That will sure make things easier.
How much should I agitate it to get a good seperation or do you just mix and let it do its thing?
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that all sounds like a lot of work and waste, what are you going to do with the stuff you separate out? E10 has at worst 3.5% fewer btu's available than straight gasoline, because pure ethanol has ~65% as many btu's as gasoline per pound and if we assume a strict 90/10 blend that reduces your btu's by 3.5% so the worst you should expect is a 3.5% reduction in mpg, and that doesn't take into account the fact that the ethanol brings oxygen straight to the party giving you an effective increase in volumetric efficiency vs. straight gasoline because less effort is expended delivering oxygen to the combustion chamber.
So if you're seeing a greater than 3.5% reduction in fuel efficiency, you should just fix what's wrong with your broken cars instead of playing around with all sorts of buckets and funnels and stuff trying to refine your own fuel, unless your time and equipment aren't worth anything... hell then go right ahead
