E85 consistency question.

[Terminator2]

For anyone looking for a good brand, i suggest lucas oil fuel treatment. Its an upper cylinder lube. I buy the gallon container its a better deal. I also use lucas ethanol treatment it is good for those that use e85 but let some sit in the tank because its not a DD. It specifically states it works with e85 and one bottle treats 80 gallons. I run the lucas fuel lubricant because its the only one that i found that was polyisobutane free. For anyone wondering what that is, polyisobutane is the known ingredient that usually causes the gooish substance or blank junk.

That's the one I got.

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[wireeater]

Wow, you must be babying it al the time or spending 95% of your time on the highway cuz you should be losing approximately 30% of your fuel economy with E85 from what I have read.

I don't live on a race track so ya, I'm not always into it. I just do cruising with some spirited pulls here and there. It could be lower I haven't actually calculated myself. Just using the onboard reader so I'm sure the calculations are off on that. I get like 200 miles out of a tank. I'll track it next time I fill up. Haven't been driving the car too much lately.

 

[Jay159866]

You should use 91-93 every couple fill ups even if for a 1/4 of a tank. Or run an upper cylinder lubricant instead. Been using e85 for over 7 years in my DD. I wouldn't suggest using e85 only long term without a lubricant. Nasty things could happen if you didnt.

So throw in a 1/4 of 93 when I fill up with E85? I'm just lowering the ethanol level at that point, right?

For anyone looking for a good brand, i suggest lucas oil fuel treatment. Its an upper cylinder lube. I buy the gallon container its a better deal. I also use lucas ethanol treatment it is good for those that use e85 but let some sit in the tank because its not a DD. It specifically states it works with e85 and one bottle treats 80 gallons. I run the lucas fuel lubricant because its the only one that i found that was polyisobutane free. For anyone wondering what that is, polyisobutane is the known ingredient that usually causes the gooish substance or blank junk.

Is this what you're talking about? But in the gallon?
http://lucasoil.com/products/fuel-treatments/safeguard-ethanol-fuel-conditioner-with-stabilizers

And this, as the lubricant?
http://lucasoil.com/products/fuel-treatments/lucas-fuel-treatment

 

[Jay159866]

Wow, you must be babying it al the time or spending 95% of your time on the highway cuz you should be losing approximately 30% of your fuel economy with E85 from what I have read.

I agree, but he's also NA. His last post says 200 miles per tank which equals up to 12.5MPG. Which seems right for NA.

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