Posted by paul on April 29, 2008 at 08:18:56 from (66.44.132.218):
In Reply to: Re: Running E85 posted by ChadS on April 29, 2008 at 06:01:30:
Back in the late 70's, the state colledge was experimenting with on-farm ethanol. Went to a day long work shop, had a 1000 gal LP tank for the mash tank, special clay packing peanuts for the still column, they converted several tractors to run on straight (95%?) ethanol. This is in Minnesota, and it was February......
They had water jacket welded up for the carb plate. And also rain the air intake through a shroud over the muffler. Said the muffler was the best deal as it heated up quick. The carb jacket kept the carb from icing up, ethanol takes a _lot_ of heat out as it evaporates.
Worked fine, the ported the jets. Lost a little bit of power, not much. Think they were looking at making use of the high octane next, modify the compression to get the power back.
Fuel prices eased, farmers were switching to diesel power, and I think the program died....
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