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Old Dec 1, 2008 | 08:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Jordan Y.
Is that Golf a flex-fuel vehicle? You can't just dump E85 in the tank like 100 unleaded and crank the boost on a normal car. You have to completely retune the vehicle, and you'd better have some serious excess fuel injector and pump capacity. E85 stoich is way richer than gas- unless that stock ecu runs off a lambda sensor (which it might) and your injectors and pump are way oversized, and the stock computer is able to adjust and dump a lot more fuel- you're going to run incredibly lean.

lambada sensor = yes
oversized injectors = yes
high pressure fuel pump with fpr = yes
Tuneable ECU on the fly = yes (when i run E85 i actually run the same program as i would for 100 octane unleaded. )

yup i think I'm covered... it does run a little rich but i always run a little rich.
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