the new gas... May 01, 2006, 09:13:28 PM anybody else hear have that mix in their car for a full tank yet? myself and a few friends all had it run through resently and it burned alot faster than usual,.. meaning instead of getting 230 miles to a tank, getting 150. i wouldnt care as much if the cost was 1.50 a gal, but its over 3... Quote Selected
the new gas... Reply #5 – May 02, 2006, 01:36:41 AM Quote from: DakotaEpicYou talking about E85?it's either that, or the 10% Ethanol stuff-E10 is what I call it...Maybe that's why I get a bit worse mileage than I should...Oh wait, it's my heavy right foot, lmaoSeriously, most vehicles won't get the mileage they do with straight unleaded...Just remember one thing though, alcohol favors higher compression engines, and has (a bit) more oxygen content than gasoline. Quote Selected
the new gas... Reply #6 – May 02, 2006, 12:50:33 PM Tbird doesn't like it. I've lost about 2-3 mpg.....and I have an AOD and 3.73 gears so that doesn't help:mad: I might try 89 octane to see if that helps, I doubt it though. Quote Selected
the new gas... Reply #7 – May 02, 2006, 08:48:26 PM E-85 requires a fuel system upgrade. So what is this "New" gas? Quote Selected
the new gas... Reply #8 – May 02, 2006, 09:08:34 PM Gotta love those gas companies. [GAS COMPANIES] Quote Selected
the new gas... Reply #9 – May 02, 2006, 09:27:05 PM We have E15 pretty much everywhere you go in Chester county now. It happened in like a week. Wawa is the only place I've seen that has posted the change....asking..."Can your boat run on an Ethanol blend?".....who cares about the boat...what about our cars!?!? My Cavalier is doing ok with it. But today an 87 Town Car came in with a shutter under accel problem. I suggested a transmission problem, but a co-worker pointed out it had a misfire. It didn't dawn on me until now that it might be the gas screwing with the engine. We performed a couple various things, like a tune-up and corrected the firing-order issue the customer had created, but still ran horrible.Hmmmm.....I'll have to run this idea by the bosses. Quote Selected
the new gas... Reply #10 – May 03, 2006, 01:25:39 AM Quote from: Billyf17We have E15 pretty much everywhere you go in Chester county now. It happened in like a week. Wawa is the only place I've seen that has posted the change....asking..."Can your boat run on an Ethanol blend?".....who cares about the boat...what about our cars!?!? My Cavalier is doing ok with it. But today an 87 Town Car came in with a shutter under accel problem. I suggested a transmission problem, but a co-worker pointed out it had a misfire. It didn't dawn on me until now that it might be the gas screwing with the engine. We performed a couple various things, like a tune-up and corrected the firing-order issue the customer had created, but still ran horrible.Hmmmm.....I'll have to run this idea by the bosses.I wouldn't think that e-10, or even e-15 would make it run rough, stutter, but hey, I don't know everything, lol. Come to think of it, we use a mix of gas/alky in all our farm stuff, except the diesels...it varys from 10 to sometimes 35-40% alcohol....The new gas is not really "new" at all, they're just not putting that MTBE stuff in it anymore, ethanol gas has been around for well over 10 years.Some vehicles have been documented to use e85 w/o any bad effects, some won't tolerate any more than 15% ethanol....Last summer I dumped about 5 gallons of pure ethanol in my gas tank on my truck, only result was I made it about a mile, and the truck died, had to pump the tank out, and replace the fuel filter, cause of the water the stuff has absorbed. Didn't help any that it had sat in a metal (think not vapor tight), and had gotten "wet"Other than that, the truck runs great, or as great as a 230,000 mile 5.0 with a coula bolt-ons will run...;) Quote Selected
the new gas... Reply #11 – May 03, 2006, 01:25:56 AM Quote from: Billyf17We have E15 pretty much everywhere you go in Chester county now. It happened in like a week. Wawa is the only place I've seen that has posted the change....asking..."Can your boat run on an Ethanol blend?".....who cares about the boat...what about our cars!?!? My Cavalier is doing ok with it. But today an 87 Town Car came in with a shutter under accel problem. I suggested a transmission problem, but a co-worker pointed out it had a misfire. It didn't dawn on me until now that it might be the gas screwing with the engine. We performed a couple various things, like a tune-up and corrected the firing-order issue the customer had created, but still ran horrible.Hmmmm.....I'll have to run this idea by the bosses.I wouldn't think that e-10, or even e-15 would make it run rough, stutter, but hey, I don't know everything, lol. Come to think of it, we use a mix of gas/alky in all our farm stuff, except the diesels...it varys from 10 to sometimes 35-40% alcohol....The new gas is not really "new" at all, they're just not putting that MTBE stuff in it anymore, ethanol gas has been around for well over 10 years.Some vehicles have been documented to use e85 w/o any bad effects, some won't tolerate any more than 15% ethanol....Last summer I dumped about 5 gallons of pure ethanol in my gas tank on my truck, only result was I made it about a mile, and the truck died, had to pump the tank out, and replace the fuel filter, cause of the water the stuff has absorbed. Didn't help any that it had sat in a metal (think not vapor tight), and had gotten "wet"Other than that, the truck runs great, or as great as a 230,000 mile 5.0 with a coupla bolt-ons will run...;) Quote Selected
the new gas... Reply #12 – May 04, 2006, 07:08:30 AM i was talking about that 10% ... im going to see how the hyundia likes it, it was at 350miles per tank with regular, in an other week or so (maybe) i'll see how many mpg that dropped. this is kinda like when they stopped putting led in gas... this sucks guess i'll have to buy gas at the track or something for my car. Quote Selected
the new gas... Reply #13 – May 04, 2006, 09:57:36 AM Hm..i get my gas a BJs and it says on the pump " Contains Ethenol" i'm not sure how much, but i have noticed that it doesn't last as long. Quote Selected
the new gas... Reply #14 – May 04, 2006, 12:22:01 PM What's funny is my 93 Buick Century with a 3.3 V6 runs fine on 87 with the 10% ethenol but the Tbird hates the same gas, and I get the Tbird the better stuff from Mobil or BP. Maybe the Tbird would like 89 or 93 better, but I doubt it. Quote Selected
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