 Re: Am I in the wrong place?
Greenba
If your still here this why you wont see Methanol at the pump for the fact it takes almost 3 gallons of methanol to equal a gallon of gas and E-85 only need to enrichen the system 30% or so. If you were to build a motor to run only on E-85 you could make it almost as effciant as a gas engine in regards to milage thru compression and combustion chambers and better ignition systems and gearing it for the changes.
If your Scooby has a 12 gallon tank and you were to switch to methanol it would be like having a 4 1/2 gallon tank on gas. You would be filling up several times a day. Have you ever been around a methanol burning engine? I bet not because you wouldnt care if it was given away it would choke you in the car and all the people around you at lights.
In the winter time up north you would never get it started thats why E-85 drops to E-70 or so.It uses the gas to ignight the ethanol.In brackets racing at the local drag strips the guys that run Methanol have a small tank with gas and they use this to prime there engine so it will start easy, usally after it warms up it will fire up fine but its the stone cold engines that will flood up trying to start them If you ever watch Drag racing on TV when ever they start the Top Fuel cars there is someone squirting gas into the injector hat so it will start.
I bet your thinking why not add some gas like E-85 well gas will not stay mixed with methanol in the same tank.
If you were to go into a store that sells nothing but rubber and seals and ask for a seal that will work with Metha. you would be handed a large book and on several pages are listed all the differant types and grades of methanol and the seals that will work with them. I know i was surprised..lol
Johnny Barb
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