Is anyone else having problems with their custom engine tunes and the 10% methanol, since the third tankful, my car seems like it is flat in the lower RPM ranges.
Is anyone else having problems with their custom engine tunes and the 10% methanol, since the third tankful, my car seems like it is flat in the lower RPM ranges.
Yes,I have had the same problem with my head and cam cars.It seems to idle really ruff.The power will also become a little flat on low end.I am thinking of enabling the flex fuel option in the newer cars to see what happens.
My brother works in the petroleum industry and he said some stations are having problems with ethanol. Seems as though ethanol is a solvent, and when stations convert over to using ethanol it can clean any residue built up on the walls of the fuel tanks, and it ends up in the fuel. Also ethanol is what helps give the fuel its octain rating. You can start out with gas that has an 82 octain rating and with the proper mix of ethanol it bumps it up to 87 or higher. The problem is if that mixture gets messed up you may not be getting 93 octain.
Unless they do an about face eventually every gas station in Florida will be ethanol based..
Well the REAL problem with biofuels is that they are robbing Peter to pay Paul. Yeah, maybe gas prices will be a bit cheaper.... But better squeeze those pennies you save, because you're going to need them when you get to the grocery store and see how high FOOD prices have become as a direct result. Why can't they use something like kudzu or some other noxious weed instead of FOOD to generate ethanol? Or better yet, mosquitoes and lovebugs!
Does anyone know of any gas stations that do not have an ethanol mix? It seems that they all have it posted on their pumps now, or at least Shell, BP, Hess and Speedway.
the 10% methanol
here here I need fuel for me more than the car !
Hybrid Mode
