[greenba]

I found this site while looking for information about the often-mentioned corrosive effects of methanol when burned as an alternative fuel in the average car. Mine is a 1999 Subaru Outback Wagon, 2.5L Boxer engine, that I converted to flex-fuel with a pulse stretcher (FFI Platinum). Runs fine on E85.

But looking long-range at the disaster looming because of Peak Oil, and wondering it we can make enough E85, I asked myself, why not go all the way to methanol, or some mixture of eth-meth-gas. Problem (?) the dreaded corrosion of methanol. There was a myth of ethanol corrosion that I came to understand as a myth for cars younger than 1985, and ignored.

But I see that you guys are doing something I had not heard of. And I didn't find a clear explanation on this site, but I guess that you are somehow injecting a meth-water mixture into the intake manifold of a gasoline-burning car. That's not quite the same as mixing methanol in my E85 fuel tank, is it.

And I did find a reference to corrosion due to "immersion" possibly in fuel lines. (Aluminum, I know, but what about other metals? elastomers?)

So give me the scoop, if you have it

Old, retired physics professor here,

Ben