Re: Ethanol?

Posted by Janicholson on December 18, 2006 at 19:16:51 from (66.173.50.27):

In Reply to: Ethanol? posted by H fanatic on December 18, 2006 at 17:21:50:

There are two issues. The first is do you mean E85, or pure Grain Alcohol. E85 is easiest, Larger jets in the carb (~20-30% bigger), and a new all brass needle in the float. More compression is way needed to afford some power and efficiency, as much as you can get into the engine is probably still not enough compression (they were not designed with a small combustion chamber, and it is hard to reduce it by 30% from even the gasoline version.

To the Pure take the above and add a mechanism for starting on gasoline and switching to alc. (alcohol will not vaporize or combust well at 32 degrees, let alone below freezing). A manifold carb preheat stove system will also help keep it running in cold weather.
Remember, all the worlds best are trying to do this as we speak, and it is not happening.
E85 yes, pure not yet. JimN

Replies:

• Re: Ethanol? Nat 2 20:06:52 12/18/06 (1)
  • Re: Ethanol? Janicholson 17:40:01 12/19/06 (0)

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