throttleplate Posted July 4, 2022 Posted July 4, 2022 Your trucks ECM is going to relearn and make adjustments on 85. Ethanol fuel may give you more power, but it has a lot of extra quirks you need to consider. To start, ethanol fuels have about 33% less combustion power, which means you have to burn more fuel for the same amount of power. This isn’t a big concern for race only vehicles, but daily drivers need to be aware of this lack of fuel efficiency, even with E85 being slightly cheaper at the pump. Quote
Woody B Posted July 4, 2022 Posted July 4, 2022 Back when I worked at a GM dealership a local fuel company ran their entire fleet of vehicles on E85. (not the diesel tankers, the smaller vehicle they had) I made all kinds of repairs to them (famous GM transmission problems) but never made in repair related to E85 usage. I've never owned a flex fuel vehicle. Quote
Super User slonezp Posted July 9, 2022 Super User Posted July 9, 2022 You guys are going to have to wait. Completely slipped my mind and I filled up wit 87 Quote
Super User Tennessee Boy Posted July 9, 2022 Super User Posted July 9, 2022 I noticed yesterday that E85 was only 30 cents cheaper than E10 at the station I was filling up at. Gas is down below $4 a gallon around here. Quote
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