Ferrari Mailing List: Re: ethanol

[E M (pokiebaron]

I use regular gas in the minivan, as that's what it calls for.  I know ethanol doesn't have much bang for the buck, and a litre of fuel here is a lot of bucks.  I was thinking about moving up a grade, to mid next time, and looking at some of the numbers.  Even though the midgrade is a bit more per litre, I'm thinking the added mileage might make it all come out the same cost wise in the end, and make for fewer gas up, which translates into standing out in the cold less while pumping gas into it.  Anything to avoid the snow...brrrr

Ed
911SC

On 5 November 2010 21:15, Doug and Terri Anderson <dnt [at] dock.net> wrote:

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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