Ethanol in small engines
I ran across this guys comments in a zero turn mower review and a guide to ethanol free stations "David S Boyd Duffys Outdoor Power Equipment August 25, 2014 Gary, I am a Hustler dealer as well...
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It's the biggest con game since the Teapot Dome scandal. When somebody puts their lips to transportation, energy and food and inflates the prices, everything else inflates.
Alcohol is NOT a good fuel component. Kissing the rears of oil companies (tax credits, low interest) as an incentive to make 100 times the amount of alkylate they do at present does make sense. Got newwwwwwws for some of you. Take a 350 horsepower RV engine that gets 8 mpg and remove the alcohol and replace with alkylate and presto, you'll have a 380 horsepower engine that gets over 9.5 mpg. Why? The ECU senses the difference and adjusts air fuel ratio and ignition timing to optimize the fuel. This is why aircraft gasoline has more alkylate in it.
Summer 1967 Walnut Creek CA. 1966 Sunbeam Tiger. Highly modified. Reese Supertune. Clayton chassis dynomometer. Chevron Custom Supreme, 252 horsepower to the rear wheels. Did NOTHING different, touched nothing, but added six gallons of pure alylate to a 13 gallon tank that was half full. Ran car for 20 minutes around Walnut Creek. Returned. 269 horsepower to the rear wheels. The car had maxxed out at 252 fr months on the dyno. The power difference was astonishing as felt in the seat of the pants.
Nope. Food prices have to rise. Brownies for breakfast roach clips on the desk. Ahh I better quit while I'm behind. The squirrels kicked the monkeys out of the zoo and are having their way with it all...
Alcohol is NOT a good fuel component. Kissing the rears of oil companies (tax credits, low interest) as an incentive to make 100 times the amount of alkylate they do at present does make sense. Got newwwwwwws for some of you. Take a 350 horsepower RV engine that gets 8 mpg and remove the alcohol and replace with alkylate and presto, you'll have a 380 horsepower engine that gets over 9.5 mpg. Why? The ECU senses the difference and adjusts air fuel ratio and ignition timing to optimize the fuel. This is why aircraft gasoline has more alkylate in it.
Summer 1967 Walnut Creek CA. 1966 Sunbeam Tiger. Highly modified. Reese Supertune. Clayton chassis dynomometer. Chevron Custom Supreme, 252 horsepower to the rear wheels. Did NOTHING different, touched nothing, but added six gallons of pure alylate to a 13 gallon tank that was half full. Ran car for 20 minutes around Walnut Creek. Returned. 269 horsepower to the rear wheels. The car had maxxed out at 252 fr months on the dyno. The power difference was astonishing as felt in the seat of the pants.
Nope. Food prices have to rise. Brownies for breakfast roach clips on the desk. Ahh I better quit while I'm behind. The squirrels kicked the monkeys out of the zoo and are having their way with it all...
