Technology options to enhance performance at a lower cost to the environment, which in the long term, is necessary for us to continue enjoying either hobby.

I tend to agree w/ Jeff Blaine on the relative wisdom of ethanol -- its a less efficient energy producer than petroleum, there are quite a few unknowns on alcohol-based emissions byproducts (alcohols being more reactive with water -- a major component of the atmosphere -- than petroleum), and the tax advantages will disappear as soon as it's convenient for the government to remove them -- but it's a useful discussion in a racing forum.

 

it's cool...I got it on topic with my Formula SAE (auto-x) engine build

really, you can run e85 up to about 16:1 NA and that would be taking advantage of it...now how can you put e85 in the same engine that can run 87 octane and expect it to work well...if you put race gas in the engine it too would have bad gas mileage.

I understand there is a connection in jacksonville with e-95...I fully plan on exploiting that once I finally move on down...of course carrying barrels of e-95 across the state would strictly be for the race car

 

I'm going to Jacksonville coming up to put the finishing touches on my Megasquirt. since that is where awesome russ my megasquirt guru lives. It be a great opportunity to map an Ethanol rich map while I'm at it. Topic related content. Brock OKed us to run altered fuel in 2008 with the Drunken sentra.

I was talking to russ about this and I thought an ethanol Rotary would be a fun experiment and he already has a turbo rotary with 1700cc/min of injectors per rotor waiting to tune. High boost in a rotary with no detonation... Woohmah!

 

the turbo for the 13b would also like the added fuel energy as well...higher mass flow rate through the exhaust.