English Deutsch Français Italiano Español Português 繁體中文 Bahasa Indonesia Tiếng Việt ภาษาไทย
All categories

5 answers

they might come up with a technology, however.. here's the bigger problem. the stainless steel fuel lines currently in cars will eventually be eated through with e85. e85 is 85% alcohol, 15% gas, as you know. stainless steel DOES rust, alcohol will eventually eat thru the lines. the cars that are currently multi fuel, and can run e85 has heavier duty gas lines and are fine.
the other issue is the car computer. each car computer would need to be swapped so the computer knows it is no longer burning gasoline, but alcohol.
AND.. if you have rubber lines going to your fuel injectors, the alcohol will swell up the rubber and it'll burst eventually.
PLUS the rubber o-rings, grommets and insultator on the fuel injector itself would have to be changed.
I'm sure someone will have a kit to do all this.. it's really not worth the money to changeover, unless you do it yourself, then maybe.

2006-06-12 08:14:46 · answer #1 · answered by Eric F 6 · 0 0

No
It would be too costly to retrofit older cars to run on E85.
It isn't because E85 won't burn well in older cars.
E85 won't work in older cars because Ethanol is corrosive. It would corrode the components in the fuel system of older cars.
To make an older car work with E85, the fuel pump, fuel lines, fuel tank, carburetor of fuel injectors would need to be replaced with stainless steel or ethanol resistant composite.
This would be too expensive.
What we will more likely see is a phasing in of E85, similar to the way unleaded gas replaced leaded gas in the middle 70s.

2006-06-12 15:20:25 · answer #2 · answered by Mad Jack 7 · 0 0

you cant modify older vehicles to burn e-85 unless you pull the old engine out and replace it with a new one that is capable of using e-85 fuel.this stuff will clog up your engine with so much carbon that the engine would stop running.this fuel requires a hotter burning machine

2006-06-12 15:16:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

no! engineer found out it too expensive to make a conversion kit.

2006-06-12 15:10:51 · answer #4 · answered by LEXUSRY 5 · 0 0

no, of coarse not, what have you been smokin???

2006-06-12 15:18:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

fedest.com, questions and answers