anyone ever use race fuel?

[bonanzadave]

So what about Corn gas

When I was a teen in the 70's I remember reading a few articles about damage to snowmobiles from the additives. I even burned holes in a few of my own sled's pistons.

Those old sleds were 2 strokes.



There have been tests done on non-Flex Fuel vehicles to see if they can withstand the corrosive nature of E85 ethanol. Ron *@%^$*@%^$*@%^$en, President of *@%^$*@%^$*@%^$en Inc., an Ethanol plant design build firm in Grante Fall Minnesota, ran a non-Flex Fuel 2000 Chevy Tahoe 105,496 miles almost exclusively on E85. He donated the Tahoe to the Lake Area Technical Institute where it was dismantled and studied. They found that there were no adverse effects of E85 ethanol on the engine or the fuel system. In fact, they reported that the engine and fuel system were in better shape than some vehicles that ran gasoline with fewer miles. This video can be seen and verified at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuOs1yap8mU

[lecroy]

Had you said that these old sleds did not have an ECM to compensate for the lower grade fuels, I would have bought into it. 2 or 4 stroke does not matter. Lean is lean.

Thats the flaw with *@%^$*@%^$*@%^$an's test. Only one vehicle was tested (not a significant sample) and its new enough to have an ECM. Certainly not the case with these old GS's.

[bonanzadave]

Had you said that these old sleds did not have an ECM to compensate for the lower grade fuels, I would have bought into it. 2 or 4 stroke does not matter. Lean is lean.

Thats the flaw with *@%^$*@%^$*@%^$an's test. Only one vehicle was tested (not a significant sample) and its new enough to have an ECM. Certainly not the case with these old GS's.

Im with ya. Thats just someones info Im sharing. Im not a big fan of running corn gas in my boat either (IO). The cylinders get washed and the rubber exhaust boot dont like alcohol.

[1150 Jay]

Hi all, I did run some VP U-4E in my 1150 at one point and I had it on a dyno to see what the difference was between the VP gas and regular gas. It was a little over 6 Hp over regular gas. It did have to be rejetted because the fuel is oxygenated and the fuel is only about 92 octane. It absolutely ran perfectly after the right jetting. And the ignition timing was set at 36 degrees.
The Vp fuel was quite expensive and very smelly as well.

[RobGS850L]

Just looked up this tiny bit of info.

http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/high-octane-gas-myth.html

The guy explains it better than my longwinded version would have.

[Eli69]

all i'm saying is, for the heck of it, i put the 93 octane in the bike instead of the regular 87 octane fuel. that night i ran twice under 12.3 seconds. the week before i was usually getting around 12.75 sec. could have been any number of things that caused it but it happened. i'm thinking of putting a half gallon or so of actual racing fuel in the tank tomorrow night just to see. then maybe the next week i'll go back to 87 and see what goes on. if there's anything significant i'll post it here.

[marz]

o.k.

the thing no one has touched on is the fact...
drum roll please

if you put 1 tank of say 94 (i use)once in a while(like i do)

it will make a differance!(ill argue untill blue or dead).

if like me you use it once in a while.if like when i was experimenting.
one after another..after another... and yet another..

youre bike car what have you will slow down.

unless you car bike ect is supossed to run on high grade fuel..

this is the end of thread.

p.s. i wanted to see how smart you all are!

i am so smart. smrt i mean S.M.A.R.T.(luv homer)
marz