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11-01-2020, 12:48 PM | #421 | |
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11-01-2020, 09:13 PM | #422 |
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Been using E85 for years in my S14, I use a 7 Mircon fuel filter and dont let it sit with E85 over winter, in fact just burned out most of it this last weekend. I havent had any issues from using it that im aware of. I will be pulling the injectors this year and having them cleaned/ flow checked for the first time since using Ethanol.
The biggest thing i have seen with E85 is when it sits, inside my last engine you could see trace evidence of rust/ really light pitting where the oil control ring was sitting for the period of time it wasnt in use. I never did have any issues with that engine, it had a great leakdown when it was taken apart to inspect. It was 7+ years old and dealing with abuse i had never built it for. It also had a very strange black film on the intake valves that was very sticky and hard to remove, it was very thin and just looked like carbon. Ive taken apart quite a few engines over the yeard and have only noticed this on engines that run alot of Ethanol. Last edited by Sforteen; 11-02-2020 at 10:12 AM.. |
11-02-2020, 10:10 AM | #424 |
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I run Premium in it thru the Winter, so its getting multiple tanks.
When i noticed the things i described above that was before i ran premium thru it in the winter. It was on Straight E85 for a couple few years on that engine. |
11-03-2020, 07:04 AM | #425 | ||
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You don't want to touch gasoline. Alcohol is fine, if its just Ethanol. You don't want to touch Methanol. The trouble is getting a pure alcohol without any methanol in it. Methanol turns to formaldehyde when it comes into contact with alcohol dehydrogenase, a common enzyme. So beware any hand sanitizer that contains methanol, it is not safe to touch. We get 100% Ethanol in our lab, very expensive. I use the pure stuff for tissue dehydration, wax embedding, and denatured versions for sanitation/sterilizing when diluted to 70% with water. Being so familiar with these and other dangerous liquids is why I stress their properties, to people who probably rarely see them in their full strength. |
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09-15-2021, 11:25 AM | #428 |
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Ethanol loves to absorb water, which is why things can start to rust when you let it sit. It's definitely a use-it-or-lose-it fuel. There are some seemingly decent stabilizers on the market, but who really knows how long they last or how they change the fuel. It's definitely best to keep things up and running. I recommend draining the tank during any kind of storage over a month long even with gasoline, no fuel lasts very long at it's peak performance when it's stored in an environment where air can get to it.
The black buildup is also pretty common in engines that use a lot of ethanol, best to have a flex fuel sensor and run it on pump gas now and then, the valves and injector tips will clean themselves pretty quickly.
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Gasoline is toxic as f to cell and being a hydrocarbon it will diffuse right through cell membranes and destroy the machinery inside cells. It's metabolic products are dangerous and it will right through to blood and affect your liver as the liver tries to detoxify the hydrocarbons, but there is no functional group on gasoline so it has no idea where to break the chains which results with myriad carbon radicals and cations forming. Thus from blood it can damage all manner of tissues with poor detoxification rate. It's like injecting a swarm of sticky angry bees to your blood that go around stinging and clinging to everything they can find. VERY BAD My background is biological science, bioengineering, I study cancer and DNA all day every day, I have a grant from National institute of health to develop some things, biomimetic 3D tumor and treatments, I say all this so you guys will take this very seriously: do NOT touch gasoline or oil-based products, your life depends on it and the effects are not immediately visible but it will have long term association with many disease pathways you won't even suspect, deep inside the body, nevermind the skin cancer aspect |
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