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Old 10-13-2014, 09:09 AM   #5447
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Originally Posted by Sellout View Post
You're not going to see similar results because gasoline requires more air than E85 to burn. At least some of the power you make with E85 comes from the fact that you can burn more of it for the same volume of air.

Obviously a comparison to nitromethane is ridiculous but it works much the same way. Nitro has less energy density than gasoline but you can literally burn almost 9 times as much nitro with the same amount of air, so you can make absurd power.

I didn't think it worked that way, E85 is less energy dense than gas, you see more power in E85 because of less volatility and better cooling (more timing, more boost on fi).


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