Ferrari Mailing List: Re: ethanol

[Doug and Terri Anderson (dnt]

Hmmm - alcohol likes water - its hygroscopic.

Also depends how much corn is in with the gas.

Has a MUCH lower BTU and therefore lousy gas mileage.

Makes politicians richer - biggest problem

Can eat up old carb hoses - so watch it.  Fire = the gift that keeps on giving.

The more we use, the fewer Arabs get to build 200 story hotels with gold faucets.

You should see the Arab homeless population growing by leaps and bounds.

Guess there's more, but I ran outta time

DOUG

 

----- Original Message -----

From: dale sailors

To: DOUG

Cc: The FerrariList

Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 1:19 PM

Subject: [Ferrari] ethanol

Hi,

    Does ethanol or alcohol based fuel negatively affect Ferraris past or present?

    What components are potentially harmed?

    Back when I rode BMW M/Cs, gas with ethanol would ruin diaphrams and seals in BING carbs very quickly. I retrofitted R90S model DELLORTO carbs which seemed to have no problem.  SHELL aviation gas ran wonderfully in those machines too! The local small airport would fill up the tank with no questions about road tax.

      Ciao

      Dale

PS Just read the Bleacher Report, F1 is getting like pro wrestling!

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