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// WELDON RACING PUMPS // Home Weldon makes very nice stuff, don't know how streetable though.

Be careful with Aeromotive pumps. The last time I talked to them they said that they will not guarantee there pumps if you use alcohol. Call them first before you buy it.

Detonation: A violent explosion; also called combustion knock. This usually occurs near the end of the combustion process when highly compressed, high-temperature end gases spontaneously ignite, radically increasing the cylinder pressure. This pressure spike moves at the speed of sound in the...

Pablo, By the way the mon+ron octane rating of E85 is 103. Octane ratings are only one way to rate a fuels resistance to detonation. Alcohols excellent latent heat of evaporation in itself is a deterent to detonation that is not a factor of mon/ron. You also have to consider flash point and...

Hi All, ronbuick convinced me to but into your ethanol conversations due to my own experiances. I am the guy that works for an ethanol producer in Idaho but that in itself does not qualify me as an ethanol expert, but, I have 7+ years experiance drag racing with ethanol. Sorry to correct you...