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Old 03-15-2012, 04:34 PM   #161
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E85 requires about 30% more fuel to achieve it's stoichiometric ratio.

You usually need a larger Fuel pump and injectors just to tune at the stock power levels,

The rubber liner in the fuel hoses got revised to deal with E85 and in general the INSIDE of any new fuel injection hose is compatible with Ethanol,

HOWEVER the outside of the hoses aren't all compatible, and the intank hoses tend to degrade rapidly with above E10 concentrations of ethanol in fuel.

I am anticipating it will be a popular mod to convert the cars to run on E85 in NA form to take full advantage of the compression and DI.

After i finish the DI injectors and pumps that is
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