[cmcpokey]

Originally Posted by jcp123

Yeah, the ethanol isn't going that well in cars that aren't made for it. I've heard similar complaints all over the place about it.Performance builders familiar with building alcohol drag engines are looking pretty hard at it though since it has characteristics similar to alcohol (high resistance to detonation, but less heat energy than gasoline).

theoretically it would work great, it boosts the octane quickly, easily, without as much refining of the gas, but the O2 sensors, and fuel injection systems need to be re-callibrated. what ends up happening is it doesn't see the right numbers coming out of the tail pipe, so it dumps more gas in, and then you get poor mileage.