Joey, If you do not find direct information from the list participants, I suggest you look to Brazil. In the 1980s, they had many vehicles which ran on 100% ethanol including some fiats and GM vehicles.
Good luck, Tom On 29 Jan, 2009, at 6:05 PM, Joey Baghodoughnuts wrote: > I am getting ready to make the conversion for one of my vehicles to > run straight Ethanol, not E-85 but 100% Ethanol. > > Has anyone successfully done this? > > I have a project car sitting around, a 1986 Chevy Camaro, with the > 2.8L 6-cylinder Engine, and I have a supply of pure ethanol available. > > I know I need to either reconfigure the timing in the computer for the > injectors, or I need to buy a unit with a time-delay to be able to > make the fuel-air mixture a little richer due to ethanol burning with > a lower energy coefficient. I know that I'll also have to add a > secondary filter to the fuel line that's easily changed on the side of > the road, due to the detergent effects of ethanol. Is there anything > else anyone can think of that I should add to the list of work that I > will have to do on this engine before it can safely burn Ethanol? > > I know that I'll be taking a performance hit on this as well, but I > will eventually get to making other modifications to improve > performance and hopefully get it back to what it was before the > conversion. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > [email protected] > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 > messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [email protected] http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
