"Met Jamie at BG"
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Jamie and Karl,
Let's just say that you two have put "Hot Air" and "E85" on the TB map! You two have the right combination to "Get it Done". I congratulate both of you for not accepting the "normal" and forging ahead with innovative thinking, trial (and error) experimentation, and never ending persistence. It has taken time, money, and patience. Perhaps more TB owners will investigate E85 and it's wonderful properties....105 octane and a high latent heat of vaporization (i.e. chemical intercooler). On top of that, your old rag-tag car was saved from the crusher and is now a show winner. Did I mention that Jamie painted the car! As a mechanical engineer, I can really appreciate what you two have done! I still have my hot air engine...maybe some day I will.......
Perhaps Wolcott Racing (J&K) has carved out a nitch in the TB world.
Congrats to Jamie and Karl for a job well done. Anyone want to buy a nice big front mount intercooler? Oops, wrong forum!
Conrad
ps...anyone got a photo of Karl?
Let's just say that you two have put "Hot Air" and "E85" on the TB map! You two have the right combination to "Get it Done". I congratulate both of you for not accepting the "normal" and forging ahead with innovative thinking, trial (and error) experimentation, and never ending persistence. It has taken time, money, and patience. Perhaps more TB owners will investigate E85 and it's wonderful properties....105 octane and a high latent heat of vaporization (i.e. chemical intercooler). On top of that, your old rag-tag car was saved from the crusher and is now a show winner. Did I mention that Jamie painted the car! As a mechanical engineer, I can really appreciate what you two have done! I still have my hot air engine...maybe some day I will.......
Perhaps Wolcott Racing (J&K) has carved out a nitch in the TB world.
Congrats to Jamie and Karl for a job well done. Anyone want to buy a nice big front mount intercooler? Oops, wrong forum!
Conrad
ps...anyone got a photo of Karl?
Thanks for all the encouragment and compliments at the Nationals you're top notch in the Buick Community.
The sad thing is E85 is not available everywhere so people can get access to it. For those looking just get a couple empty 55 gallon drums and come to michigan next spring and fill up, that will set up for awhile. I have friends that do this that are local so they have the same quality for a while (comes from the same batch per say) Luckily both stations local test as E85 or E83 and I have a lot of friends who have made the switch.
GNVYUS 1
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Wow, great job. I checked out all the custom parts you had made and it's very impressive.
Curious if you've contemplated Alky to help add some more boost?
A 2 or 3gph Preturbo will net 1psi of compressor efficiency and a 15gph Post will really get that 25psi and maybe 280 degrees down closer to mid 150's maybe.
FWIW, two M15 nozzles took out 30% in my E85 injectors, I've got 80's that respond like their on gas now.
Curious if you've contemplated Alky to help add some more boost?
A 2 or 3gph Preturbo will net 1psi of compressor efficiency and a 15gph Post will really get that 25psi and maybe 280 degrees down closer to mid 150's maybe.
FWIW, two M15 nozzles took out 30% in my E85 injectors, I've got 80's that respond like their on gas now.
Insanely fast Conrad!
murphinator
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lurk around on the modular mustangs forum in the e85/e98 section and you will see IC's being removed as a restriction and added weight -especially by the e98 guys
the fuel does plenty of charge cooling for them it appearsE85 and higher sounds like a great replacement for an intercooler. However where I live E85 is not ready available and even if it was I’m not sure I’d go to it 100%. The reason is my car is more street driven than strip and pulling up to the gas station almost twice as many times doesn’t have a great appeal to me. If there was a way to have E85 on demand, but use regular 93 octane for normal driving that’d fit the bill!
Vernon (Turbo1dr) has two sets of injectors, two fuel lines and two tanks on his Malibu hybrid. He can manually or automatically switch between 87 octane and 116 octane. If we could do something like that with regular gasoline and E85 that would incredible.
Vernon (Turbo1dr) has two sets of injectors, two fuel lines and two tanks on his Malibu hybrid. He can manually or automatically switch between 87 octane and 116 octane. If we could do something like that with regular gasoline and E85 that would incredible.
I'm not sure why you think you would be filling upt twice as many times, street driven I still maintain 18 mpg range, I really didn't lose any mpg that I can see. Of course I ran straight 110 race fuel before but still never had an issue with mpg. I know it says you will lose some mpg but only a mile or so not several..
Interesting, for some reason I thought it took a lot more E85 than regular gasoline. I was getting around 20 MPG, so a 2 MPG drop isn't really any big deal.
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