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Old 03-10-2011, 07:13 AM   #22 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Frank Lee View Post
Ethanol resistant materials for the fuel system.
Yes Frank, the ethanol fuel system would be built from ethanol resistant materials.

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Carb'd will be jetted bigger and injected may have bigger injectors.
Yes again, the ethanol injectors would be bigger.

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Dedicated ethanol engines have higher compression ratios; flex-fuel engines are saddled with the lower gasoline C.R.s which compromise efficiency when they're running ethanol.
The whole point of using different fuels for different loads is to NOT have to compromise with such things as CR. (did you read the first post?)
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