Can i run on corn?
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From: long Island NY
Can i run on corn?
I just seen the first E-85 gas pump here on Long Island. I'm sure their has been a post on the subject before but I might have missed it. My question is can you just put this in your car or will the computer have a nervous breakdown? I see alot of GMcars stateing their flex fuel cars.
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I wouldn't get E-85 near my car with a ten foot pole.
Just the mandatory additive everyone is putting in nowadays is destroying vehicles. Corroding and eating everything up. Tomorrow I have to drop the gas tank and replace the entire fuel pump in my wifes 1998 malibu because the ethanol corroded everything beyond repair.
Just the mandatory additive everyone is putting in nowadays is destroying vehicles. Corroding and eating everything up. Tomorrow I have to drop the gas tank and replace the entire fuel pump in my wifes 1998 malibu because the ethanol corroded everything beyond repair.
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I just seen the first E-85 gas pump here on Long Island. I'm sure their has been a post on the subject before but I might have missed it. My question is can you just put this in your car or will the computer have a nervous breakdown? I see alot of GMcars stateing their flex fuel cars.
Seems like I saw an article in Vette Magazine about the conversion on a C6. I did not read it so I can not comment on the article, but the previous posters got it right, there are components that get eaten up with ethenal. Here in the southwest we only see the 10% mix. I have not seen any detremental effects, just an assumed worse gas mileage.
Good luck.
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See the following. Its currently does not show any Corvette as being a Flex Fuel Vehicle (FFV) capable of using E85:
Do I Have an FFV?
Do I Have an FFV?
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Here's a 3 page thread on the subject. Do a search on "Ethanol" or "E85" and lots of stuff shows up.
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c5-t...n-our-c5s.html
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c5-t...n-our-c5s.html
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Wow some good info here, looks like I'll be staying away from Husky and Mohawk gas stations (tourists you've been warned).
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The C5s were not designed as flex fuel vehicles so it would require modifications to run on E-85. Anyway why would you want to, your gas mileage would go down by 25%. E-85 is an ill conceived alternative from day 1.
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The Corvette is not set up to run on E-85. It will run on 10% ethanol just fine.