down home wrote:
Indy engines use Methanol, not Ethanol.
I've forgotten all the heat content etc, a long time ago.
Ethanol is not a scientific solution, for anything with our engines.
The Corn Farmers started an effort to get Ethanol into our fuel way back in the fifties. It was flop. It wasn't about conservation or pollution then nor is it now.
I wasn't aware of the fifties efforts until fairly recently. A Relative sen me some photos, of signs at gas stations advertising it.
Never saw it around here.
Where do you people come up with this stuff? :R
Indy cars use ETHANOL NOT METHANOL!More reading.It's no wonder people are confused. :S
BTW, ethanol in gasoline certainly is about pollution. Do a smog test with 100% gasoline and then switch to E85 and see which comes out better in HC's.
