A little late to the thread, I had a thread up about this last yr as well.
There is a station out in Orlando at the turnpike.
E85 Fuel Stations
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New Station: Florida
And I laugh at the people who post bullshit about how ethanol doesnt work, or how its inefficient, and how its going to eat at your fuel lines etc.
Once people pay attention and start seeing how much power people are getting out of e85 then the bastards will be tripping over there laces trying to make the switch.
e85 is rated at 106 octane but it burns cool like methanol and at least in the dsm community, gstracer your right, people are getting c16 type tunes out of them.
Like 30 plus psi on their daily drivers with full timing advance, and lean burn tunes to get more mpg back out of the fuel. There are ways to improve mechanical efficiency to get your lose of mpg back out of e85 fuel. Hence building a higher compression motor, and thus benefiting from more power as well from dramatically increased combustion pressures without knock.
I.E. DSM's come 7;8:1 CR stock on the 1g, id have no fear building a 10.1 compression motor on a pure e85 street car.
Most cars built in the 90s and later are actually able to run ethanol. Even if it did deteriorate components some, its probably at such a slow rate anyways. The only immediate thing one should worry about is replacing their fuel filter after a couple hundred miles as the e85 cleans out all the crap in the tank/lines and its known to get caught up in the fuel filter. Other than that people have gone 50+ thousand miles with no other issues with the e85 on their daily drivers.
I cant wait till they give us some e85 stations but that could be a long time away.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/featu...5451013.column
So for me, rather then waiting around, once my cars back on the road I will just have two maps for the car, one for 93 octane and one for e85 and Ill be making the trip to orlando to fill up and bringing probably four, 7 gal gas bins with me to also fill up so I can have at least 28 spare gallons of the stuff to store at home, and on a non daily driver that should easily last a month or two so Id only have to make the trip once every other month, and for what Im trying to do it will be worth it since I refuse to pay 9 dollars for some shitty 110 octane.