Unfortunately, Ethanol is not good for your TBI or carbureted engines. E-15, 55, 85 Corn clogs up everything and causes corrosion to your, tank, injectors, carburetor bowl and seals.
Here:
https://www.onallcylinders.com/2014...derstanding-ethanol-can-protect-classic-ride/
Q: Can I just increase the size of the jets in my carburetor and use E85?
A: The simple answer is that this probably will not work. E85 has roughly 25- to 30-percent less heat per pound of fuel so you need to increase the size of the jetting by roughly that much. So if the stock jetting was 75, it would require as large as 100 to 105 jets. This becomes an issue because the rest of the carburetor is not appropriately sized to meter that much fuel. It’s better to invest in an E85-designed carburetor. There are several companies that offer E85-specific model carburetors.
https://www.enginelabs.com/engine-t...t-e85-and-ethanol-16-things-you-need-to-know/
Phase separation is when the water content in the fuel tank builds up to a level where separation of the ethanol and gasoline takes place. Reports have suggested that a fuel tank content of just 0.35% of water will lead to phase separation.
What you are left with is a layer of water on the bottom of the tank Above it will be the layer of ethanol and above that will be the remainder of the unleaded gasoline. This fuel is deemed useless and corrosive. If used will cause havoc in fuel injection systems.
Clogged and especial sticky fuel injectors are but some of the related problems.
https://www.injectorrx.com/fuel-inj...ctor-symptoms/ethanol-fuel-injector-problems/
https://extension.psu.edu/fuel-ethanol-hero-or-villain
Two months of Ethanol in your tank and your carb or TBI Injector bowls look like this:
https://ridermagazine.com/2020/03/26/carburetors-and-ethanol/
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It also has to do with holding Class A Shares of Power Generation Plants. Take Florida, for instance. If the power authority cannot retain 13% profit, they get to raise everybody's rates, under State Laws. So if the "P-word" shuts down domestic oil production and the power margins go haywire, then the class A share holders get profit, despite the consumer getting screwed at the pump and the power pole. You can see how having big money in off shore drilling can also make you a fortune, if you get to vote where the power company buys it's oil and at what price. Now drive demand with 250,000 new electric vehicles and all that money comes home to Daddy. Guaranteed 13% profits through Natsec power regulations. "I think everybody should be forced to drive an electric car by tomorrow!" Same thing as saying: "I win again, and again and again..."
This is amplified by massive corporations farming corn and other crops in the mid west.
There's big money in buying off shore fuel and fuel futures. You and I are not getting a nickel of it, either. We get corn fuel though... wreck your car faster, if your not careful.
Back then, when corn subsidies first started and we were all being scared to death about PEAK OIL, ...if I was a farmer, it would have made me money, so why not? We sent millions of bushels around the world to feed foreign countries, every year, why not add it to fuel, it sounded great.
Except PEAK OIL was not even close. It was B/S.
Once a Subsidy starts, it's a lot tougher to stop it... so the market chose to add corn to gas, in order to offset the corn crops. It did nothing for domestic automobile engines, in my opinion, except ruin them and increase maintenance.
The Utah play, (where sand shale fracking was invented), has yet to break ground. We are hearing the fracking plays are about to go broke or run dry, in the news. How can this be, when the largest fields are not yet drilled?
Iso-butanol is derived from corn stalk, wood chips, Tiger Grass, Sugar Cain Stalk and/or certain types of green algae. Or all of the above.
If this takes off, your farm could grow any number of plants or on your arid land, or farm algae in shallow pools. It works growing indoors too, under the right process.
Here is some interesting reading:
BP/DuPont Iso-Butanol
Here's the link for the Kansas Feed Stock company who started this using harvested corn stalks:
Nesikla Energy
There's hours of digging and links to click, just from those 2 links...
I wrote a pro-active forestry remediation project, using 25 Semi-tractor trailer mounted 30" drum digesters, to harvest green slash.
My plan was to feed the Iso-butanol rector and dead beetle kill chips to feed a pellet stove fuel project.
Lot's of trucks, lots of fuel. Open box haulers, with canvas toppers. Big rigs to haul the digesters.
It's 2016:
We got dead tress everywhere, so my thinking was; let's get the poor folks and the working man, some affordable heat, or at least back up heat, (incase of outages or shortages or war), and save money for hot rods and restoring old trucks, or food. (This was years ago... so bear with me, I was ahead of my time).
You stop at the fuel station, fill up your tank, grab a few hundred pounds of wood pellets and fill up the stoves the kids at 4-H learned to weld up, at welding school.
We need about 100,000 more welders, on a continuous annual basis, to build 100's of new ships, thousands of restored highways, busted up bridges, retrofit power plants and how many new US Factories... so hopefully welding up a few hundred thousand new pellet stoves could help out...
God gave us beetle kill, let's heat some homes.
My goal was to pro-actively target the areas where science based
forecasting of potential burn zones, could be mapped and cleaned of flammables, before they caused $17 BilUS in annual forest fires. Clean up the slash piles as soon as they get cleared and truck the stuff to KS to the Bio-fuels labs for Iso-butanol manufacturing.
If we can subsidize electric cars, wind farms that screw up the grid and solar panels that fail, why not truck weed for fuel additives and bag some pellets?
The project was to feed the fuel additive, which did not hurt your carburetor's or seals: Iso-butanol, with all the trees, saw grass, tiger grass and corn stalks we could get.
(Good reads on alternate crop rotation for expected dry years or soil recovery anybody?)
Contemplated driving wood chips to Kansas and truck home silage for finishing cattle in the North West.
The 2020 floods caused so many bushels of stockpiled corn to get flooded, it seemed it would have been better if we had a plan to use it, rather than let it rot, when the Missouri Breaks and the Mississippi washed out...
Lots of wasted corn... this would be less likely to happen and stabilize prices, to some degree, in case transport or war or market crash screwed up the cattle yard concept. 2%-5% of local cattle, could be fed back home, (wherever home is), and the bark shreds and the weeds you farm could added to the Iso-butanol cooker on the round trip. We could use a subsidy for this trip, in my opinion...
This way, if the feed yard broke out with the Bovine Disease, at least some of the annual ranch feeder stock would be healthy, back home and not all grouped up on the same huge parking lot. Shift the market a bit for better preparedness and faster reaction?
Nah...
You grow Tiger Grass in Alabama or Florida?
How about corn stalks in North Dakota?
Saw Grass in Mississippi?
Same trip, different reasons, different loads going back.
Some folks want petroleum to go away, is the problem. Because they are guaranteed to make more money owning AAA power grid stocks, not because it will save you money or keep the world from being polluted. I have installed a scrubber at a recycling furnace. It's a huge catalytic converter. Same technology.
E-55 or E-85 would NOT be replaced or restricted. They work for newer multi-fuel vehicle applications and assist with the base stock, to sustainable develop Iso-butanol. Your Ethanol grow subsidies are not at steak with this program, just your hot rod's engine.
At no time have I suggested ethanol / corn subsidies should be removed or restricted... not the focus of my story...
Everything already at the pump remains, PLUS the NEW Blue Handle:
It would be called PREMIUM, (according to the DOE).
It was the marine manufacturer's who pushed for the Iso-butanol legislation and got it signed in late 2016-early 2017.
National Marine Manufacturer's Association LINK:
https://www.nmma.org/press/article/22033
There are people who would stalk and dox me for even mentioning this technology to you guys.
Hopefully, there's a few old timer's here who ran a cracker or two and can back me up with much more knowledge... (Cracker's lift gasoline vapors... they do not smoke them.)
Anyways...
Parts may never be more affordable than they are right now. Price of Nat Gas with the world in turmoil is probably going to follow the price of oil, as of yesterday and likely hit $100 real soon.
Planned obsolescence starts at the fuel pump, with Ethanol, eating your truck's fuel system. Sub standard parts may very well do the rest.
Unless your vehicle was engineered for Ethanol, it cannot withstand the residual and water, over time.
Don't take my word for any of it.
Please... read the links at the start of this post.
If your pop makes gas station pumps, or your brother installs giant underground fuel tanks, or your friend owns 600-700 filling stations, this is a major issue for our vehicles and hot rodding's future. These guys want all gas engines banned for ever. Oil executives and the market locked up.
Pro active solutions are being kicked to the curb.
Gas, Beef, Hot Rods, navigable water ways for boating and crop irrigation, they can all go away very fast, if we don't take care of what's allowed to happen.
If you can afford to use High Test, I strongly suggest you do so, for as long as is possible. It may not be long, before the carbon dioxide you exhale is taxed.
**** Your mileage and opinions, may vary.****
Hopefully for the better, with less engine wear?
Those recipe's posted above, might be the only way to keep up with the mess at the pump... 200 new users can add this to the list of why the truck will not start.
Xylene handles the H20, as previously stated... once the corn splits into 3 separate layers, the fuel is acidic, caustic. It don't take long.
What do I know?
May be the worst salesman in the USA.
