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Originally Posted by roosterk0031
I'm going to disagree with our small carb'd engine's being OK running E85, if you can get it started it will be running lean. With 28% less energy vs regualar gas you need to change the jets to feed more fuel per air flow to keep the engine happy.
With fuel injection making it down to small engines most won't take E85 just like most cars won't without a CEL. But all my cars take 50% without any problem. I'd run E15 in all my mowers never giving it a second though, isn't worth blending for a few gallons they use a week.
PS, love the VFR's, had a 83 v45 interceptor for a while, love to find a yellow 2000
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I've sourced e85 to run in a couple of my fords and I never had them throw cel. Then again both those fords were supercharged and had both dynamic fuel pressure regulators and large injectors. But the biggest thing I guess is to have a wideband o2 sensor so the ecu has a chance to tune to stoichiometric range on e85 (roughly 10:1 IIRC).
As for the small engines, it wouldn't take much adjustment of the fuel mixture screw to sort out the idle mix and then lift the needle with either a couple of little washers under the clip or moving the clip down.
Now on the 2000 VFR, its Yellow was so ugly to me, I waited until 2001 to get a red one. My second VFR is a 99. With the power commander on them makes returning for e85 a few clicks of a tuning map.