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Originally Posted by razor02097
Ethanol is a great thing. An engine that is made to run on it is very clean and runs cooler than a gasoline equivalent. Flex fuel vehicles can't take advantage of the ethanol. Just because they CAN run on it doesn't mean they are running on it effectively. Lower compression ratio and a conventional fuel system cripples the benefit of running ethanol but still shows all of it's disadvantages.
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Yes, we knew this back in 1909.
http://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/0392/report.pdf
104 years old and still valid.
They talk about increasing the compression and altering the carb to dump more fuel into an gas converted to alcohol engine to the point where it wont work with the gasoline any more.
They also mention how a few simple changes can be made to gasoline engines to make them run alcohol but the engines wont run as well as they did on gasoline alone.
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1989 firebird mostly stock. Aside from the 6-speed manual trans, corvette gen 5 front brakes, 1LE drive shaft, 4th Gen disc brake fbody rear end.
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