How well do our engines burn ethonol and has anybody tuned a 305 to burn it?



It could make more power.

 

I think it's a great idea, but not many people are willing to put cash into 305's. You're talking all kinds of carb tunning if you're not running TPI, a pricey E85 conversion kit, that may run you $300-$500. You may need a new fuel pump, new fuel lines, then there's the cost of installation if you don't know what you're doing with it.

Making a 305 run on ethanol could cost you $2,000. You do know that most 305 cars cost less than that altogether these days, right? I mean, if you have that kind of money to waste to be enviromentally friendly, and make more power, go for it. It'd be very neat. I'm a tree hugger in a sense, I'll probably never in my life run a catless exhaust on a car.

A diesel truck, that's another story. If I owned a second gen Ram 2500 with a 5.9 Cummins, I'd be running a straight pipe into 6 inch stacks.

Edit: Wait no, 8 inch stacks!

Two of these would be insane!

 

E-85 is fairly common. You essentially jet your carb richer. FI would need custom prom, and maybe bigger injectors?
Pure ethanol? Where you gonna get that?

Methanol is when you need different fuel hoses, pump, etc etc.

I have no idea what you'd do with ethanol in a diesel truck, diesel is definately not my forte. I thought propane injection was the hot ticket.

 

If you read that a bit closer, I was talking about the comment I made about Ethanol being more enviromentally friendly, and how I'm a bit of a tree hugger, except for when it comes to Diesel trucks.

Not that I'd use Ethanol on a Diesel. That's just plain silly, and I'm 99% sure would not work.

 

oh, gotcha, missed that.

My TA is catless... Smells and sounds like a boat. I love it. Good ol' Canada