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70mach351
Member # 7528
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Anyone making big power running it? Found a conversion for my carb, need a new fuel fileter and should be good.
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89foxstang
Member # 5908
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i know alot of guys in the boosted crowd are running it with good result, only problem is if its a daily driver your kinda tethered to a gas station ...
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MikeD.
Member # 8060
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quote: Originally posted by 70mach351: Anyone making big power running it? Found a conversion for my carb, need a new fuel fileter and should be good.
I thought seals and what not had to be replaced with higher quality as well as rubber fuel lines.
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70mach351
Member # 7528
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i already got rubber fuel lines, and my fuel system is compatible except for the after fileter on m fuel pump. Just have to get the carb conversion which is 300. But will pay for itself in first couple months since 115 octane race gas is like 10 a gallon. Its a race car, and the gas station closest to my house sells it.
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MikeD.
Member # 8060
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quote: Originally posted by 70mach351: i already got rubber fuel lines, and my fuel system is compatible except for the after fileter on m fuel pump. Just have to get the carb conversion which is 300. But will pay for itself in first couple months since 115 octane race gas is like 10 a gallon. Its a race car, and the gas station closest to my house sells it.
Oh sweet! Yeah I guess e85 is equal to somewhere around 116 or so. I know boosted cars love the stuff. Sucks it burns faster though, I wouldnt mind paying 1.99 a gallon for 116 octane.
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Blind
Member # 3052
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quote: Originally posted by MikeD.: quote: Originally posted by 70mach351: i already got rubber fuel lines, and my fuel system is compatible except for the after fileter on m fuel pump. Just have to get the carb conversion which is 300. But will pay for itself in first couple months since 115 octane race gas is like 10 a gallon. Its a race car, and the gas station closest to my house sells it.
Oh sweet! Yeah I guess e85 is equal to somewhere around 116 or so. I know boosted cars love the stuff. Sucks it burns faster though, I wouldnt mind paying 1.99 a gallon for 116 octane.
from what I've seen it's approx. 15% difference, not huge for a straight line car.
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89foxstang
Member # 5908
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I thought e85 was only around 100-105 octane just want to make sure that your combo can be run on essentially 105 octane at best
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E85 [ August 31, 2009, 05:51 PM: Message edited by: 89foxstang ]
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warhorse58gt
Member # 7702
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quote: Originally posted by 89foxstang: I thought e85 was only around 100-105 octane just want to make sure that your combo can be run on essentially 105 octane at best
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E85
it is 105.. i have a friend running e-85 on his evo.. but still 2.40 a gallon is really cheap.. hell 100 unleaded is 5+ a gallon. soon as i can get the money for the blow thru e-85 carb.. i'll be running it!
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