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Originally Posted by morswestford
Today i went and filled my tank with 6 gallons of regular gasoline (87 octane). The rest of my tank has e85, so it's 50% regular gas and 50% e85. Omega Fuels recommended me to dillute the e85 with regular gasoline and that's exactly what I did.
It still doesn't start.
Also the ethanol content anylyzer only went down from e88 to 83. So i'm not sure how accurate that is since half of my engine is regular gas. That seems to be way off. Shouldnt it be way below 80 by now? Strange.
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It might take a few miles of driving before the Ethanol analyzer shows the correct %.
I've started my 75% Ethanol BRZ in 42-degree weather once (on the original E85 tune that didn't account for cold starts):
1) I cranked the car 10 times like you, gave up, went inside
2) Came back out 10 minutes later, did several more cranks (didn''t step on the gas pedal this time)
3) By now I figured the engine was flooded, so I waited ~30 minutes, came back out, turned the ignition to ON... waited for 2 minutes, then cranked the engine. It almost fired up, I step on the gas a bit, then cranked it again a few more times before it finally fired up.
The joy of using corn juice..