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"Turbo-T"

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Just wondering....I have a bottle of it and before I put it in I wanted to know if it would be safe for a turbo car......?
 
from a purely mechanical standpoint, other than the turbocharger, there is nothing special about the turbo Regals.
to clean the fuel system, i prefer Marvel Mystery oil, myself.
 
Thanx, I know it sounded like such an absurd question, but me still learning the rops of the TR's (I'm getting there) I didn't want to do something that might hurt the car.

Also if anyone feels the injector cleaner gas additives are over rated or simply just don't work please let me know.....but for now I have a bottle waiting to go in the tank. :)
 
If you can get E-85 around where you are, put 2 gallons with 8 gallons pump gas.
 
Not to sound dumb but what will the E-85 do for me? I've never used it before.
 
e-85 is an alcohol based fuel (85% ethanol or "grain alcohol", 15% gasoline) and it will clean things out pretty good...maybe too good in some cases:D hth
 
Cool. I'll have to try it. Unfortunately as I just learned, NC only has like 13 gas stations that carry E85, none of them are anywhere close to me.

Although it looks as if E85 is a less expensive fuel, I see they also claim it is supposed to be more environmentally friendly.

Even more reading looks to me like E85 is designed for flex fuel vehicles, and with that those vehicles have special fuel pumps, special anti wear engine parts, looks like rubber, aluminum and magnesium parts are not used, longer pulse lengths for the injectors, plastic lined stainless steel fuel lines....wow....

Of course I see it really offers no type of performance gain with less energy per volume.
 
Just wondering....I have a bottle of it and before I put it in I wanted to know if it would be safe for a turbo car......?

You'll be fine with that. Ive used it before with no adverse effects to my GN. I use it in my Silverado all the time. Hasnt hurt anything yet.
 
Of course I see it really offers no type of performance gain with less energy per volume.

Where ever you get your info, stop going there. There is a performance gain but you are right about less energy per volume. :rolleyes:

My Stock White car does 22 PSI @ 24 Timing, all stock. Except for E85,83# injectors and matching chip.
No performance gain my ass, tell that to that C6 last week and the AMG C32 this morning :biggrin:
 
Of course I see it really offers no type of performance gain with less energy per volume.

u can make some if not most of this energy loss back by designing a engine specifically for e85 though! most flex fuel vehicles are designed to run on 87 octane gasoline but support the use of e85. the only thing that is done to my knowledge to increase performance on a flex fuel vehicle is different timing.

what needs to be done is take an engine like an ecotec, about 10:1 compression ratio, and bump it up to atleast 12.5-14:1 to take advantage of the e85's fuel characteristics! this would inturn raise the fuel economy back up and be a more efficient and cleaner engine as well! this is all stuff i am learning in my alternative fuels class right now, its pretty sweet! hth

there was a pretty cool article recently in hot rod magazine where they took a beefed up ls2, may have been stroked, 10.2:1 compression, dynoed at like 540hp on 100 octane, 546hp on e85, then "just for fun" put a GT42 turbo on it ran 13psi boost through it on e85 and produced 850HP @5900rpm:biggrin:
 
Thanx, I know it sounded like such an absurd question, but me still learning the rops of the TR's (I'm getting there) I didn't want to do something that might hurt the car.

Also if anyone feels the injector cleaner gas additives are over rated or simply just don't work please let me know.....but for now I have a bottle waiting to go in the tank. :)

I would rather ask an absurd question than ruin my engine any day of the week. Remember it only takes a second to ask or a second to say good bye to a perfectly good engine.;)
 
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