Check out this report/ road test of a comparison of E85 to Gas.
https://www.edmunds.com/fuel-economy/e85-vs-gasoline-comparison-test.html
Here at the shop we have been dealing with this problem for a long time with a
lot of cars. And found the same problems with all of them, some worse than
others.
Overheating due the removal of the gas and addition of the Ethanol. The Ethanol
burns hotter which reduces emissions. This causes older cars to run hotter.
Lower gas mileage and lower performance
Miss fires and Lack of power due to the leaner mixture. The is especially
worse on a Tri Carb Healey, the rear carb will lean out on a long hard run at a
steady hight rpm.
Also Ethanol has a very strong cleaning ability, So if you start using Ethanol
in a older gas tank or a tank that has been sitting for while that has a lot of
varnish build up. The Ethanol will go about its cleaning ability and clean up
all that varnish in the tank and deposit it in the carburettors.
I know that there are lots of those out there that have all the techy stuff.
But I go by what I have learned by over 40 year of working on all British cars
and lots of them.
The bottom line with 10 % Ethanol your Vintage car will run hotter, get worse
fuel economy and may experience miss fires under heavy acceleration.
David Nock
healeydoc at sbcglobal.net
209 948 8767
www.britishcarspecialists.com
From: Bob Spidell
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2017 7:43 AM
To: Oudesluys
Cc: healeys
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Ethanol
OK, now I be confused. In the States, E10 is 10% ethanol, E85 is 85% ethanol,
so E95 would be 95% ethanol. Is that correct?
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From: "Oudesluys" <coudesluijs at chello.nl>
To: "healeys" <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2017 4:25:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Ethanol
Op 26-1-2017 om 23:59 schreef Oudesluys:
> It is not likely you will encounter real problems as you have
> presumably used E85 for years
Should of course be E95
Kees Oudesluijs
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