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Originally Posted by Nemesis
Despite this, the ethanol gives off a lower amount of energy at the current/same compression. The turbo is designed to create the power we bought it for, with gasoline. It does not currently create this same power with ethanol.
"The gas mileage does go down, but then again you are not paying more for gas are you?" - I pay maybe .25 more per gallon for pure. This comes to roughly $2.50 more per fill up(fill up costs $55.00). So If I use the ethanol (E10) I will fill up for $52.50, pure $55.00. If you are losing 5mpg with E10 and traveling an hour like I do, then the result I had was my fuel mileage was almost cut in half. This means that with pure I spent $55.00 over a 2.5 day period, with E10 I spent $105.00. See my point? These are my real world numbers using the same daily route at the same speed over a 50minute period.
Bottomline: whether a tune would help or not, our production skys are not designed to run on ethanol, resulting in lower MPG and 34% drop in power at current compression settings.
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Yes, I am not talking taking a stock tune Sky and run E85 you have to be tuned. All different fuel, cam, parimeters.
I feel like I am stepping back in time with this car. Since I have Hondata Kpro and everything that needs to be changed is easily adjust within seconds real time or data logging.
I wonder if AEM will come out with an EMS for the sky.