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      03-03-2013, 08:25 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by M3takesNYC View Post
You can easily run e85 mixed with regular pump. Something in the 25-35 percent e85 would work fine.

Grab a BT tool and monitor your fuel trims to make sure your fuel pump is not strained but other than that you get great power and a bit lower gas mileage.

You don't need a specific e85 tune. Even stock you will make good power as you will be able to hit full boost and timing targets with e85s cooling effects and higher octane. With a regular tune of any kind you again can run higher boost and timing. Its cooling effects alone are valuable and why its even better than race gas.
I don't see a point in running a fuel with my car not setup to take full advantage of it.

Running e85 in a car with a specific state of tune to burn it properly and make full power from it, yep worth the effort. Mixing the fuel and making incremental power with the standard tuning, too much effort. So if I get a 25whp bump with an e85 tune on e85, mixing it and running a stock tune for say 7whp...worth it?
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