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Re: Alternative Fuels on SAABs
Posted by UnderDog (more from UnderDog) on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:57:37
In Reply to: Alternative Fuels on SAABs, Ed hall, Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:08:20
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It's my understanding that we can currently run with the 10% ethanol blend most of us are probably using already, but to run the E85 (85% ethanol) blends, a conversion kit is required. The kit replaces fuel lines & modifies the ECU software to adapt to the ethanol blend with higher octane, and probably a few other things as well. I've heard of the kit being available in europe, but not yet in the US for passenger vehicles. I would guess that without the kit (again just an educated guess) that the current fuel lines would deteriate due to the ethanol's properties, and that you would see poor performance as ethanol has only about 75% of the energy potential of 'normal' gas. So your price savings at the pump are negated by the poor fuel economy without the kit.
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