Re: [DML] Re: Non Ethanol Gas

["Michael Conrad" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Do any of the vendors sell ethanol-proof replacement parts?  Perhaps an  
upgrade kit?

How well will our engines run on 15% E?

-Mike C.

On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:44:37 -0500, jtrealtywebspannet  
<jtrealty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> My Yukon is an "E-85" vehicle. I thought that meant I can use 15%  
> Ethanol. WRONG! It means the thing will run on 85% E. And that doesn't  
> count all of the other additives.  Around here in NJ we are up to 10%  
> already. We can't feed the world but we can put the stuff into our gas  
> tanks. As for Deloreans, they can probably take 15% but it will  
> eventually damage the rubber parts in the fuel system like the diaphram  
> in the accumulator, "O" ring seals, pick-up hose, fill pipe hose, etc. I  
> really don't see what choice we would have, in many parts of the country  
> there is no non-E available unless you go to the airport!
> David Teitelbaum
>
> --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "daveswingle2" <swingle_dmc@...> wrote:
>>
>> Interesting, because I was reding in the paper that the Geniuses in  
>> Charge of Such Things are now pushing to increase the ethanol content  
>> to 15% to help the ethanol industry out.
>>
>




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