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Originally Posted by TheIVJackal
I can't believe you guys are running anything higher than E-10 in your vehicles that are not equipped to handle such high levels of Ethanol. Are you not worried about wearing out seals and what not? EPA just mandated that all cars must fill with at least 4 gallons of gas if the station has E-15 or higher on the same pump. Be careful!
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A lot of people in the E85 community say there's no problem with the fuel system, that they've been running E85 with only upgraded fuel pumps and injectors for years without issue. The EPA seems to think that E15 is safe though car manufacturers don't.
The fact that the car manufacturers think it's bad makes me too afraid to run it all the time, besides the price isn't very good out here in California, but putting ethanol into this tank is more because I want to clean my engine and supposedly ethanol is good for that. I also want to see if boosted octane rating makes it smoother at all. I figure it can't be any worse than dumping a bottle of some unproven snake oil that goes for 10 dollars into the tank.