E-10 Gasoline The New Standard April 1st

Coasty did pass the time by typing:

Nice date they chose..... :)

Yeah, I think it might be an april fools thing...

What is E-10? Is that the low smog crap we run in the winters on the wet coast?

Hopefully it is a joke, or at least the 93 octane stuff won't contain it... I use the 93 octane stuff in my aircraft and I can't use any fuel with alcohol in it...

I've been hearing some ramblings for over a month here. The only date I had heard previously was sometime in April. The folks just S. of me in Houston have been gearing up for a while I was told. I was also told it was one of those "under the cover of darkness" issues so as not to get too much attention and resistance before it was in the marketplace. As usual, it could all change with the wind, and it's blowing hard today. Hippie...

No joke unfortunately. They are talking about mandating alcohol in fuel in Canada too or at least in Ontario in the next couple years.

It is total bullshit about the older engines. The crap eats gas lines, the carb float needles go bad and I lose over 25% in mileage and have no power over 60 mph when I run alcohol mix. Even my owners manual states 'not' to use the junk.

I mean I go from over 350 miles per tank of gas down to 250 miles at best with alcohol mix.

Great stuff, it is more expensive and we use Way more of it when mixed.

Mike

86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail >

Half the gas stations around here in Michigan already have it anyway.

I still say it's an april fools gag. (although not out of the range of government stupidity)

Found some state madates

Going E-10 increases NOx Interesting read. MTBE is bad stuff and getting rid of it is a good thing. But I'm not convinced alcohol and increased NOx is the answer.

Is that the same nitrous oxide I get at the dentist? If so, we won't care. ;^)

Earle

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No way, I am still getting the neoprene needle seats...

Mike

"L.W.(ßill) Hughes III" wrote:

I don't think so..... My needles barely last a year. The are done in for sure every 2 years. The one I have in now has started to leak and it's only a year old. I just pulled it and cleaned it's slides and tip and we will see if I have to buy a kit or not....

I was experimenting with that crappy gas mix and my carb's mix to see if I could burn the junk. Folks told me I was running lean if it wouldn't burn alcohol so I tried to rich it up via the internal metering needles. All that got me was a mid range bog and bad gas mileage.

I just went back to the stock settings and am hoping on the needle...

Mike

86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail >

WOW - that's really bad mike. I just wonder......

My Liberty has gotten worse and worse mileage over the last month. Maybe the station switched while I wasn't looking.

What kind of thermostat do you have in that vehicle? The FI rigs I have are pretty tolerant of what passes for fuel at the pumps near here, but FI doesn't make fuel burn any better than a carburetor does.

Earle

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Quite fitting anything having to do with the Fed's all fools no April involved. Coasty