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Maxol e85 bio-ethanol fuel


jot_ie

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Maxol have been rolling out this new fuel in their fourcourts around Ireland over September.

 

Its supposed to be about 15-20% cheaper than normal unleaded

Its also supposed to be 104 octane.

 

Will this stuff work in a vvti tt engine?

 

Doesnt the vvti have some kind of automatic advance/retard capability?

 

I am enclosing maxol's official brochure released here in ireland if you fancy a read.

 

What other mods have to be made to get this to work?

 

John

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Guest DaveWilko

There was an article about bioethanol in Practical Performance Car a few months ago. It said it is great stuff but you need to convert your fuel lines. It didn't say what to though

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You'd need a complete remap.

Get yourself a MoTeC, Autronic or HKS V Pro if you want to run it.

 

I was afraid of that...

in order to run this stuf I am going to need

1 piggyback fuel computer

2 injectors

3 fuel lines

4 remap

 

would that do it do you think?

 

Thanks for the input, much appreciated

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Some modern cars use flexfuel sensors which can detect the ratio/blend and alter the fueling as required, I have been looking into hooking one of these up to an AEM.

 

Gasoline

Max Power: 12.5-13.2:1

Stoich: 14.7:1

 

E85

Max Power: 6.9-8.4:1

Stoich: 9.7:1

 

 

Some more info can be found here

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