Dang I wish I could get methanol at the pump here. That would actually convince me to buy a Snow Performance kit for my truck and crank that sucker to “kill”methanol?
I was surprised how effective going to ethanol free was. I can get 93 with ethanol here, but only 91 without. I'm still getting around 1.5-2 mpg calculated on a car that typically gets 34mpg. I'm sure I can get a hint more power under boost with 93, but it should be negligible and I pay the same for 91 octane, so I'll take the increase in fuel economy.
I’m not sure those kinds of increases are even possible; ethanol has roughly 30% less energy than gasoline… so in pure mathmatical calculations, there will be a 3% hit for E10. On a car that gets 33.3mpg, this would be a theoretical 1mpg increase by going to E0. Anything more is purely noise and not attributable to the gasoline. As @kschachn has noted many times, there are so many variables in one’s daily drive, it is nearly impossible to discern any true mileage increase attributable solely to one factor.
That’s basically what I said. I hand calculate every time and I drive a lot of highway miles. It falls in the range you just stated. I normally get 34-35 mpg and I’ve been seeing as high as 37mpg which I’ve never had out of the car before this.
I wish I could understand that "dialect text better" not sure why you think its good to type like that.
Pretty sure all our fuel in California is E15... Never had any issues from this even in older vehicles.
Sorry, I guess I meant 10%
“Why not use a bit of stabil? Easy enough. I had a snowplow (carbureted, 6 cylinder) that I would fill every 2 years or so before ethanol and never had a problem. Can’t do even 9 months now… ethanol blended gas starts to degrade in 2-3 weeks till it’s really bad at 2-3 months.”
Not much here although its increasing in popularity.
