The E85 Thread

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I spoke to a mate that put it into his xr6 turbo and noticed no difference in power he went and spoke nizpro that tuned his car and they are testing it atm on another ford turbo.

The Nizpro car that was tested was a tad richer on the new fuel, .03 lambda was the difference.
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I heard this bit.

Did they say how much more power?

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Sorry mate, but with Nizpro it's all secret squirel stuff.

Waiting to see if they change the pumps in Sydney to the new 107 blend and if they do I'll tune mine on it aswell.

Currently on e-flex and making 475rwks (BF XR6T with PTE 6235) so should see a healthy increase in power and torque.

[alexeiwoody]

Sorry mate, but with Nizpro it's all secret squirel stuff.

Waiting to see if they change the pumps in Sydney to the new 107 blend and if they do I'll tune mine on it aswell.

Currently on e-flex and making 475rwks (BF XR6T with PTE 6235) so should see a healthy increase in power and torque.

That's alot of killerwasps! Your poor tyres

[rednose]

Yeah went to 305/30/19 Nitto invos but still cant take the power in the first 2 gears, even with the eboost off (410rwks)

It is fun though...lol

[Manaz]

There's still bugger all E85 available in Sydney. I'd have to drive to Drummoyne for it from West Ryde...

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There's still bugger all E85 available in Sydney. I'd have to drive to Drummoyne for it from West Ryde...

That's only 10 klms away, I know guys that drive double that to get it.

E85 needs to be experienced first hand, then make a desicion on whether you would drive 10 klms from home to fill up

[Out6ack]

35min each way for me.

I get there with a near empty tank & 6 jerry cans in the back.
Storing 150 litres of fuel in the garage is not for everyone tho..

(running 98RON during winter)

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35min each way for me.

I get there with a near empty tank & 6 jerry cans in the back.
Storing 150 litres of fuel in the garage is not for everyone tho..

(running 98RON during winter)

And your NA, the turbo guys would see a heap more benefit from going e85

[KiDo_Tuning]

Used to drive an hour to Kempsey from Coffs...

[Manaz]

There's still bugger all E85 available in Sydney. I'd have to drive to Drummoyne for it from West Ryde...

That's only 10 klms away, I know guys that drive double that to get it.

E85 needs to be experienced first hand, then make a desicion on whether you would drive 10 klms from home to fill up

The distance isn't the issue. It's having the time to go out of my way to do it - between a job where I work 50-60 hours a week, my family, an NFP that I help run, etc, I've got very little time to drive 10km in traffic (there's *always* traffic on Victoria Rd)...

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Filled up with e-flex at Casula last week and noticed the ethanol content dropped to under their advertised minimum of 70% to 66% (it normally shows 70% - 72% on my guage)

This is the first time it has moved by more than 1-2%

Thought the Zeitronix was playing up as AFR's were still ok and car drove fine.

Ran the fuel down to as low as possible and filled up at the Moorebank site this morning and ethanol content is back up to 71%

Just a fyi to anyone that uses the Casula store.

I will wait a couple of weeks before filling up at Casula again and report back.

Hopefully just a one off.

I have emailed Caltex but have yet to get a reply.

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Response from Caltex:

George,

Caltex Australia has made no formulation changes to E-Flex petrol and there have been no apparent issues at any of the terminals that blend and supply the product. This product was only ever intended for use in vehicles equipped with engine management systems designed to recognise varying petrol ethanol mixtures in the range 85% down to zero. People operating engines where a fixed (exact) level of ethanol is required would have to make their own arrangements. Out of interest, what industry recognised method (e.g. ASTM/IP etc.) are you using to measure ethanol content?

Regards

Caltex Australia Lubelink

I called Lubelink and got a hold of one of their techs who believes that water may be the culprit (I agree) , they are going to investigate and get back to me.

Sounded like an honest guy who seemed like he wanted to get to the bottom of it.

Will keep you posted.

[alexeiwoody]

Really? 18lhp? I am getting about 12-13 around town on my built motor with cams..

Yeah 18L on stock motor, e tune + auto. 16L on freeway. AFRs spot on. I was getting 12-14 on pump lol....maybe when my new motor and a proper dyno tune are done, we'll see

Aaand.... fixed!

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66kms coming home from tune...stuck in traffic, some freeway (7L/100 avg on fwy), schooled some modified SS camaro near home.... = 8.0L/100kms. On E85.

I am speechless. Thank you Justin, Bruce and Brian (and Gino through his results) for recommending a real tuner! (that I've been meaning to see for 1.5 years)

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Who tuned it this time ?

[BUDDAH]

Who tuned it this time ?

MRT ?