E85
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Unless you can truly take advantage of the increase in octane, I'd pass if I were you. Fuel consumption is much higher vs gasoline, availability is less, mixes change from season to season (E74-E79), etc. Between that and the cost of fuel system upgrades to support flow demands, unless your modded to truly take advantage, it's simply not worth it.
I tuned cars on E85 from the moment it went to market, having tuned engine management systems for years to that point. I busted many of the myths and worries about the fuel, so don't feed into that. I used various fuel pumps, let rubber orings and injectors sit in ethanol mix for months, sat aluminum pistons in it for over a year. There is still a lot of misinformation out there about it....and many people tend to spout and regurgitate what incorrect information they read somewhere else about it.
Fact is...I know I'm not really answering your question...and I apologize for that. Any capable corvette tuner should be able to handle tuning a car for E85 as it tunes very similar to race gas in terms of timing. The issue, like I said, is fuel system upgrade cost needs to be justified by your ability to truly take advantage of the increase in octane over typical pump gas.
I tuned cars on E85 from the moment it went to market, having tuned engine management systems for years to that point. I busted many of the myths and worries about the fuel, so don't feed into that. I used various fuel pumps, let rubber orings and injectors sit in ethanol mix for months, sat aluminum pistons in it for over a year. There is still a lot of misinformation out there about it....and many people tend to spout and regurgitate what incorrect information they read somewhere else about it.
Fact is...I know I'm not really answering your question...and I apologize for that. Any capable corvette tuner should be able to handle tuning a car for E85 as it tunes very similar to race gas in terms of timing. The issue, like I said, is fuel system upgrade cost needs to be justified by your ability to truly take advantage of the increase in octane over typical pump gas.
