Question on E85
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Well up here where I live I have
Woodmans, Meijer and Shell for $2.29
Kwik Trip for $2.15
Speedway for $2.05
Unfortunately I dont know how often they sell their fuel to know how long it's sat in the tank.. I would definitely love to test to know if a certain retailers E85 is what they claim it to be.. I see the E85 fuel tester on Amazon for a measly $20.. Definitely going to get one and test them. Once tested keep going to the same one. I noticed that the Kwik Trip has the "Top Tier" stamp on their pump of E85.. For whatever good that means. That's where I pump currently.
Woodmans, Meijer and Shell for $2.29
Kwik Trip for $2.15
Speedway for $2.05
Unfortunately I dont know how often they sell their fuel to know how long it's sat in the tank.. I would definitely love to test to know if a certain retailers E85 is what they claim it to be.. I see the E85 fuel tester on Amazon for a measly $20.. Definitely going to get one and test them. Once tested keep going to the same one. I noticed that the Kwik Trip has the "Top Tier" stamp on their pump of E85.. For whatever good that means. That's where I pump currently.
Shell use to be awesome but then they started blending the fuel heavier with gasoline which cut down the ethanol content to 50-60% for better economy.
Thortons by me is great. My best recommendation is once you find a good station, use that primarily. Also once the summer blend rolls in the pumps typically don't change ethanol content that much until it gets back to being cold.
Do yourself a favor and buy the little e85 tester and get some samples. You don't need anything fancier than a test tube.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007ZJ749O/?tag=tcg21-20
Buy the quick fuel tester it's like 10 bucks, there are only a couple gas stations around me with it but the shell was consistently 90+% this was 2 years ago though I haven't used e85 in 2 years
Shell use to be my go to as well a couple years back but last year they changed it to a different blend I want to say mid year.
Most stations E85 isn't a product from that gas company. The Mobil by my house carries E85 and there is a big sign on the pump saying "this is not a Mobil product"
Generally speaking I usually don't even test my E85. My car isn't tuned on the ragged edge so that if I get E80 or E75 the car will be ok. It will run a little richer, but my timing isn't so aggressive that it will start knocking because of the slightly lower Ethanol content.
Generally speaking I usually don't even test my E85. My car isn't tuned on the ragged edge so that if I get E80 or E75 the car will be ok. It will run a little richer, but my timing isn't so aggressive that it will start knocking because of the slightly lower Ethanol content.
Yes, very true. I always keep an eye on my AFR's so I can tell if I get a lower/higher ethanol content, but I haven't had it become a problem yet...Granted I usually only go to 3 stations that have E85 so it's not like I'm really travelling around trying every station haha
I monitor afr and knock. I've never seen knock and when i'm in the throttle and in boost it's always rich between .75-.85 lambda
Only way you're getting E98 is out of a drum. You'd have to buy it to get that much ethanol
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