Has anyone ever tried or experimented with using E85 as a fuel for their street rods? In case anyone is wondering, E85 is fuel that is blended with 85% ethanol (the "Budweiser" alcohol) and 15% gasoline and it's supposedly selling for about 50 cents less than 87 unleaded. I hear the octane rating is around 106. All the info I've found says that jetting/injectors needs to be 25-30% larger and timing bumped up 10-15 degrees. I imagine that some of the rubber fuel lines, carb floats, or fuel pumps, etc might need upgraded, but I also hear that ethanol is no where near as corrosive as the methanol (poisonous) alcohol that the blown alkys use. I know that my 5.0 HO powered 87 T-Bird likes the 10% gasohol blend, but I'm thinking about bumping up the compression up to
12:1 on my next engine build and giving E85 a try. Tips and info on ethanol conversions would be greatly be appreciated.Mike