E85/Flex Fuel
09-08-2008, 05:28 PM
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Everything costs more in Cal. in order to pay for all the fires, earthquakes, lack of rain and other things people out there think need changing.
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09-08-2008, 05:48 PM
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I hope it wasn't a service employee that said that, because he is wrong. If he does work in service find another dealership. Gas tanks are made of composite plastic. Besides can you imagine the weight a stainless steel tank would add to the vehicle.
09-08-2008, 06:23 PM
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E85, if you believe the hype is supposed to help us become less dependent on foreign oil. E85 fuel economy's not good enough in my book. The only advantage would be if the country were suffering from an oil embargo/major conflict and the Gov't was using E85 formulations to stretch our petrol supplies.
Hybrid HHR ? - Current GM "Mild" Hybrid Technology, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mild_hybrid) gives a only a small advantage in fuel economy over a normal combustion engine. GM needs to develop a system close to what is used by Toyota
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09-08-2008, 07:14 PM
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Salesman, should have known better, 99.9% don't know their head from you know what.
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09-08-2008, 09:27 PM
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Now here's what's odd....
A buddy of mine has a barn find 71 Plymouth Duster that he built into a Sox&Martin tribute car.... running a 360 with two 4 barrels on a tunnel ram intake. He runs E85 and the car runs much better and faster than even on 110 octane racing fuel. There's nothing special about the engine, literally.... it's out of a 77 Dodge pickup, the carbs were sitting on his shelf for 20 some odd years. No special fuel lines, gaskets, nothing.
A buddy of mine has a barn find 71 Plymouth Duster that he built into a Sox&Martin tribute car.... running a 360 with two 4 barrels on a tunnel ram intake. He runs E85 and the car runs much better and faster than even on 110 octane racing fuel. There's nothing special about the engine, literally.... it's out of a 77 Dodge pickup, the carbs were sitting on his shelf for 20 some odd years. No special fuel lines, gaskets, nothing.
09-08-2008, 09:47 PM
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Now here's what's odd....
A buddy of mine has a barn find 71 Plymouth Duster that he built into a Sox&Martin tribute car.... running a 360 with two 4 barrels on a tunnel ram intake. He runs E85 and the car runs much better and faster than even on 110 octane racing fuel. There's nothing special about the engine, literally.... it's out of a 77 Dodge pickup, the carbs were sitting on his shelf for 20 some odd years. No special fuel lines, gaskets, nothing.
A buddy of mine has a barn find 71 Plymouth Duster that he built into a Sox&Martin tribute car.... running a 360 with two 4 barrels on a tunnel ram intake. He runs E85 and the car runs much better and faster than even on 110 octane racing fuel. There's nothing special about the engine, literally.... it's out of a 77 Dodge pickup, the carbs were sitting on his shelf for 20 some odd years. No special fuel lines, gaskets, nothing.
Originally Posted by GRUMPEE
Hybrid HHR ? - Current GM "Mild" Hybrid Technology, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mild_hybrid) gives a only a small advantage in fuel economy over a normal combustion engine. GM needs to develop a system close to what is used by Toyota
Seems rather silly to me.