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Reply #15
Yeah, the real reason for bigger injectors is an air/fuel ratio of about 9.7:1 for E85 versus 14.7:1 for gasoline.
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Reply #16
Quote from: Cougar5.0;197274
Yeah, the real reason for bigger injectors is an air/fuel ratio of about 9.7:1 for E85 versus 14.7:1 for gasoline.


And if you didn't add the bigger injectors what would your A/F ratio be then?  It'd be a problem....Hence the reason you need them for more power.  Semantics, I know. ;)


Quote from: xjeffs
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Originally Posted by V8Demon 
To gain the better power you will almost always need larger injectors.

That's not true. If the BTU content is greater you get more energy out of the same volume of gas.


That's fine and dandy, but E85 has LESS BTU's per gallon than gasoline.
http://zfacts.com/p/436.html
http://www.domesticfuel.com/?p=3321
http://www.michigan.gov/dmb/0,1607,7-150-9141_13133_41641-146988--,00.html
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2006-02-01-ethanol_x.htm

To hell with it!  I say we all run moonshine...
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Reply #17
I have no trouble trusting this guy.

Its scary as hell.
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Reply #18
forget it, a study by the US Geological Survey shows us is would only last 30 years at a fraction of the oil we use now...

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs-0028-01/fs-0028-01.htm
2013 Focus (Daily)
1968 Cougar XR7
1987 Turbo Coupe
5 Speed, Stock IHI, Aeromotive 340LPH, Stinger 3in DP w/Magnaflow 3in Race Series ler, Hallman Boost Controller, Corbeau Fixed Back Racing Seats, Rebuilt 35# Injectors, Kirban AFPR, Stinger's Front Mount Piping w/Big NPR Front Mount IC, 3/8 E-85 Fuel Lines, SPEC Stage 3+ Clutch, Explorer 4.0 Dual Core Radiator, Optima Red Top Battery
1988 Turbo Coupe (RIP)
1984 Cougar (RIP) :cougarsmily:
1986 Cougar XR7 5 Speed.  (sold)

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Reply #19
shiznit, while were on the subject of E85.

I used my $450 '92 cavalier 2.2 5speed to guniea pig E85 on.

E85 INFACT made my car run better and more efficiently than premium did. I felt a gain in power over dinofuel. I miss that car now it got easily 25-27 mpg IN THE CITY light to light. 12 gallon tank. took me 2 and a half weeks to burn 3/4

thats where I stand on that. RIP alier.

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Reply #20
Brazil is running their cars on Sugar ethanol at ~99 cents a gallon and Brazil is not a small country. Everyone down there drives flex-fuel cars, that's not a big concession figuring how cheap their ethanol is.

The US government claims that we can't do it, but I think that's BS. If they really wanted to and didn't have oil corporations breathing down their necks, we'd all be driving flex fuel cars and paying .99 a gallon too. That's just my :2c: :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel_in_Brazil
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Reply #21
The thing is that it is much more efficient to make ethanol out of sugar than it is to make it out of corn. While corn ethanol holds slightly more energy than it takes to produce (making it efficient) this efficiency must improve before corn ethanol (or a locally produced alternative) can survive without the need for a subsidy.
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Reply #22
If all the farm land in the country were used to grow corn, you still could not make enough ethenol to replace oil.
Of course we would all starve to death if we tried it.

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Reply #23
Quote from: amooset;196902
There's nothing wrong with communism in my book.  The only "communist" countries that we have seen have been dictatorships.  Communism is great on paper, but people are too greedy and lazy to make it work as it should.

As for the video, I wouldn't be surprised if this was true.  It doesn't dispute the fact that burning fuel is still bad for the air, so we should push for renewable energy that is cleaner.  Have you seen photos from downtown Bejing?  Without any major clean air policies, China has the worst air quality in the world and I don't want us to end up like them.  Scandal or not, we do need to get away from crude oil.

Sorry, but I didn't study hard, earn two master's degrees, jump jobs when opportunity knocked, save my money, invest wisely, and otherwise climb the ladder so my disposable wages can go to someone who didn't put in the work. Someone who tries to prevent me from enjoying the fruits of my labors is in for a serious fight. :mad: :beatyoass:
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Reply #24
Quote from: softtouch;197429
If all the farm land in the country were used to grow corn, you still could not make enough ethenol to replace oil.
Of course we would all starve to death if we tried it.


GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!

So since he already said it,, ill add.

Go to town and pick up your "house for sale" free paper.  Down here in WV, TONS of farms are for sale.  People are not farmers anymore.  They are a dieing breed and they are not getting replaced.  WHY? because all the younguns up and coming dont know what its like to break a good 9 hour day sweat.  Yep,, farming sounds like work.  All of you out there who can flip the palm of thier hand up and see pretty skin are guilty.  Our children are fat, parents are fat,, people are laying waste to the pride those retired have given us and it  me off.  Farming and providing food should have never been outsourced but even our food is coming from over seas.

I really dont think our country has enough land mass to ""Guarantee"" a sure crop each year to met the consumer demands that oil provides.  I wish weather did not effect crops but it does.  There is one other form of propulsion that no one ever talks about and its prinl was proven back in 1904 with no fuel.  Too bad we decided to go with piston power instead.

Sometime in the next few months ill be bolting something to an old CVT transmission and see how much work i can produce out of it based on the same prinl.  The reason why i took an old Hull Effect assembly apart asking questions on here plays an important role in this system.

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Reply #25
Biofuels from soybeans/corn is a joke.  Hell, a brand new biodiesel plant in my hometown had to shut down due to a record high closing in soybeans this season (with high yields).  When you start using these crops for fuel, the price per bushel skyrockets.  Have you noticed prices at the grocery store over the past few years?

Biodiesel is a step in the right direction, but not from soybeans.  Theoretically you can get 5000 times the biodiesel from an acre of algae than soybeans.  It's relatively new stuff, but quite interesting. 

But what does if matter if we have a 200+ year supply of oil on our turf?

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Reply #26
Do any of you realize that we have the technology to make cars run on water? Or what about electric cars?
There is no reason for all of us to have to use gas for cars anymore.

water run cars
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In a suburb of Toronto, Canada, a small company called Rothman Technologies, Inc., has in fact discovered not one but two viable methods for breaking down ordinary water into hydrogen and oxygen. Neither method involves the need to spend a billion dollars. They are simple answers. The existing engines in our automobiles could work with these systems with very little alteration and no need for an external support infrastructure like the one now provided by gas stations, and which would be required by fuel-cell technology.

How to convert your engine to run on water
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Reply #27
Quote from: LittleAngel1198;197705
Do any of you realize that we have the technology to make cars run on water? Or what about electric cars?
There is no reason for all of us to have to use gas for cars anymore.
Thanks, I needed a good laugh!

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Reply #28
So is the Aqua-Cougar running strong then?
-- 05 Mustang GT-Whipplecharged !!
--87 5.0 Trick Flow Heads & Intake - Custom Cam - Many other goodies...3100Lbs...Low12's!

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Reply #29
It wasn't meant to be funny.
There are serious things that can be done to help this country concerning fuel/ oil. 

Why is it so hard to believe that a car could run using water?
Ever heard of steam engines??? (trains)
:cougarsmily:~Karen~