Mixing E-85 and Regular to E-40
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Wicked ace (02-14-2019)
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If you had a EB and a E40 tune it would be well worth the hassle, otherwise i would just use gas buddy to find the cheapest premium and use that lol.
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Wicked ace (02-14-2019)
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most of the time I run 87 octane in my ecoboost. in the hot summer I will run 93 because it makes a appreciable different in mpg.
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The answer you're looking for, i'm here to provide it.
93 mixed with ethanol to 30% is around 96 effective octane.
93 mixed with ethanol to 50% is around 100 effective octane.
tl;dr: you need to have at least a 50% mix with 87 to get where you want.
People proportionately mix ALL THE TIME to get around fuel system requirements with e85. The trucks are 100% designed to deal with partial mixtures as well.
93 mixed with ethanol to 30% is around 96 effective octane.
93 mixed with ethanol to 50% is around 100 effective octane.
tl;dr: you need to have at least a 50% mix with 87 to get where you want.
People proportionately mix ALL THE TIME to get around fuel system requirements with e85. The trucks are 100% designed to deal with partial mixtures as well.
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WOW - so to add onto to another member aboves post.
1) adding ethanol doesn't raise the octane rating of the fuel. Yes I know internets and people running e85 swear by it's anti-knock and anti-retard properties and running oodles of timing and. It's not OCTANE however. It just burns cooler. See Octane rating is about the amount of OCTANE molecule in the unit of gasoline. Octane is the good stuff in basic terms. Adding ethanol does nothing for this infact it is watering down your gasoline. That 87 octane you buy that has 10% ethanol in it - starts off as 87 octane pure gas and they put in 10% by volume of Ethanol. And you hope - no water.
2) the company selling that 88 octane stuff is mostly a marketing gimmick they are lightly adding some octane to normal 87 fuel mix - so as to test as 88.
3) 93 octane rated gas that is e10 is again 93 octane pure gas that's been mixed with 10% by volume of ethanol. E85 is 87 octane base gas, that is 85% ethanol by volume the reason it doesn't have a standard octane rating is that it mostly ethanol and octane rating method doesn't apply.
Your engine with stock tuning will run it's best on 93 octane pure gasoline. The power spec ratings for them were all done with 93 octane pure gasoline. YOu can however retune the vehicle to run on e85. You can run pretty well on e85 and you can get high power out of it with major tuning changes. HOwever, you will use significantly more fuel per mile running e85 so don't think this will save you fuel money.
Hopefully this helps weed out some of the details. If you want to run e85 there are some good tunes for it
1) adding ethanol doesn't raise the octane rating of the fuel. Yes I know internets and people running e85 swear by it's anti-knock and anti-retard properties and running oodles of timing and. It's not OCTANE however. It just burns cooler. See Octane rating is about the amount of OCTANE molecule in the unit of gasoline. Octane is the good stuff in basic terms. Adding ethanol does nothing for this infact it is watering down your gasoline. That 87 octane you buy that has 10% ethanol in it - starts off as 87 octane pure gas and they put in 10% by volume of Ethanol. And you hope - no water.
2) the company selling that 88 octane stuff is mostly a marketing gimmick they are lightly adding some octane to normal 87 fuel mix - so as to test as 88.
3) 93 octane rated gas that is e10 is again 93 octane pure gas that's been mixed with 10% by volume of ethanol. E85 is 87 octane base gas, that is 85% ethanol by volume the reason it doesn't have a standard octane rating is that it mostly ethanol and octane rating method doesn't apply.
Your engine with stock tuning will run it's best on 93 octane pure gasoline. The power spec ratings for them were all done with 93 octane pure gasoline. YOu can however retune the vehicle to run on e85. You can run pretty well on e85 and you can get high power out of it with major tuning changes. HOwever, you will use significantly more fuel per mile running e85 so don't think this will save you fuel money.
Hopefully this helps weed out some of the details. If you want to run e85 there are some good tunes for it
Lemme put it like this, the cooling effect absolutely plays a part. a 50% ethanol mixture works very similarly to VP MS109 (makes the same horsepower) but what it lacks is repeatability. It will lose power in back to back passes where ms109 won't. 85% ethanol literally outperforms VP MS109 in every way.
Last edited by w00t692; 02-14-2019 at 05:25 PM.
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WOW - so to add onto to another member aboves post.
1) adding ethanol doesn't raise the octane rating of the fuel. Yes I know internets and people running e85 swear by it's anti-knock and anti-retard properties and running oodles of timing and. It's not OCTANE however. It just burns cooler. See Octane rating is about the amount of OCTANE molecule in the unit of gasoline. Octane is the good stuff in basic terms. Adding ethanol does nothing for this infact it is watering down your gasoline. That 87 octane you buy that has 10% ethanol in it - starts off as 87 octane pure gas and they put in 10% by volume of Ethanol. And you hope - no water.
Adding 10% ethanol to a sub octane gas (which is 85 octane) raises the octane to 86.7 giving you an 87 E10 regular gas. Non ethanol gas known as conventional is a true 87 octane.
2) the company selling that 88 octane stuff is mostly a marketing gimmick they are lightly adding some octane to normal 87 fuel mix - so as to test as 88.
88 octane fuel is 85 sub octane fuel plus the 15% ethanol mixed in to equal 88 octane
3) 93 octane rated gas that is e10 is again 93 octane pure gas that's been mixed with 10% by volume of ethanol. E85 is 87 octane base gas, that is 85% ethanol by volume the reason it doesn't have a standard octane rating is that it mostly ethanol and octane rating method doesn't apply.
93 octane is a sub octane fuel of 91 octane plus 10% alcohol to get 93 octane unless it is a conventional fuel than it is a true 93 octane
Your engine with stock tuning will run it's best on 93 octane pure gasoline. The power spec ratings for them were all done with 93 octane pure gasoline. YOu can however retune the vehicle to run on e85. You can run pretty well on e85 and you can get high power out of it with major tuning changes. HOwever, you will use significantly more fuel per mile running e85 so don't think this will save you fuel money.
On average a F150 5.0 will lose 3 to 4 miles per gallon running E85. compared to E10 regular gasoline
Hopefully this helps weed out some of the details. If you want to run e85 there are some good tunes for it
1) adding ethanol doesn't raise the octane rating of the fuel. Yes I know internets and people running e85 swear by it's anti-knock and anti-retard properties and running oodles of timing and. It's not OCTANE however. It just burns cooler. See Octane rating is about the amount of OCTANE molecule in the unit of gasoline. Octane is the good stuff in basic terms. Adding ethanol does nothing for this infact it is watering down your gasoline. That 87 octane you buy that has 10% ethanol in it - starts off as 87 octane pure gas and they put in 10% by volume of Ethanol. And you hope - no water.
Adding 10% ethanol to a sub octane gas (which is 85 octane) raises the octane to 86.7 giving you an 87 E10 regular gas. Non ethanol gas known as conventional is a true 87 octane.
2) the company selling that 88 octane stuff is mostly a marketing gimmick they are lightly adding some octane to normal 87 fuel mix - so as to test as 88.
88 octane fuel is 85 sub octane fuel plus the 15% ethanol mixed in to equal 88 octane
3) 93 octane rated gas that is e10 is again 93 octane pure gas that's been mixed with 10% by volume of ethanol. E85 is 87 octane base gas, that is 85% ethanol by volume the reason it doesn't have a standard octane rating is that it mostly ethanol and octane rating method doesn't apply.
93 octane is a sub octane fuel of 91 octane plus 10% alcohol to get 93 octane unless it is a conventional fuel than it is a true 93 octane
Your engine with stock tuning will run it's best on 93 octane pure gasoline. The power spec ratings for them were all done with 93 octane pure gasoline. YOu can however retune the vehicle to run on e85. You can run pretty well on e85 and you can get high power out of it with major tuning changes. HOwever, you will use significantly more fuel per mile running e85 so don't think this will save you fuel money.
On average a F150 5.0 will lose 3 to 4 miles per gallon running E85. compared to E10 regular gasoline
Hopefully this helps weed out some of the details. If you want to run e85 there are some good tunes for it
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JimPaine1, thanks for the tip about Torque. I bought Torque Pro for $4.95 and the BAFX bluetooth OBD2 adapter from Amazon for $23:
When I initially fired up the app, I couldn't find the ethanol percent either. I found the answer on the ctsvowners.com forum, where some smarter-than-me person figured it out and posted the info. You need to create a custom PID: 220052, the equation you need is (A/255)*100. I did it and it worked perfectly.
Here is the thread I got the info from:
https://www.ctsvowners.com/forum/62-...orque-pro.html
-Dave
When I initially fired up the app, I couldn't find the ethanol percent either. I found the answer on the ctsvowners.com forum, where some smarter-than-me person figured it out and posted the info. You need to create a custom PID: 220052, the equation you need is (A/255)*100. I did it and it worked perfectly.
Here is the thread I got the info from:
https://www.ctsvowners.com/forum/62-...orque-pro.html
-Dave
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jpeckinp (02-19-2019)