My HHO Generator

[dkjones96]

Originally Posted by acetone marty

...When i look at rowers post i see ethanol or e85, i dont mean to be ignorant rower when i say this but it looks like you run ethanol in your car now that is the biggest documented scam there has ever been. It is the worst fuel we could ever use it takes way more energy to make it than we will ever achieve in our motors, has lower btus than even propane,the mileage goes down...

I disagree. There is a valid reason for the lower MPG out of an engine running E85, gasoline. All E85 vehicles are 'flex fuel', meaning they have to run both gasoline and E85 on the same engine. If you were to build an engine tailored to take advantage of the 105 octane of E85 and then ran pump gasoline in it you would kill the engine before you even ran through your first tank and the infrastructure isn't there in most places to actually make E85 only vehicles. (Albuquerque only has one station for E85, if you don't count where the city gases up almost all of its fleet)

Have you ever looked at an engine that has run E85 its entire life? The engine is spotless inside, I've seen spark plugs come out of E85 engines that looked almost new except for a worn electrode. The oil stays clean much longer too.

I don't run E85 because like most non-flex fuel vehicles I'll get a code for the O2 reading excessively lean. I'm sure, however, that if I was to modify my engine for E85 only running I could get it pretty close to the mileage I get on gasoline with way more power on tap if I need it.