04-25-2006, 06:36 PM
BigGuynRusty Wrote:
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> Ethanol is a nightmare, look what it did to
> Brazil.
> Puts out tons of formaldehyde, which isn't tested
> for on the current smog tests. Makes a car tuned
> for gasoline, run like crap.
>
> BioDiesel is beautiful, sulfur free fuel, problem
> is that GM personally killed the automobile diesel
> market in the 1980's. Euro diesels are just
> wonderful cars that can't be sold here because of
> our crappy high-sulfur content diesel.
>
> Diesel is the near future, would love to see a
> Diesel/Electric/Hydraulic Accumulator Hybrid,
> 75/100 MPG easily obtainable.
>
> BGnR
ah, people still remember those Olds 350 gas engines redisigned into diesels?
As a racing gasser block they are hell for stout. Bore it .110 over and use some 425 and 403 parts, and it is indestructible. But as a diesel, it was crap.
And as for ethanol, you need either 20 or 40% more by volume to get the same amount of energy out of a gallon of gas.
So your miles driven on a tank of fuel is far less, and cost per gallon as a straight comparison isn't valid.
Do you remember if it is 20 or 40% Rusty?
This was plainly obvious when I read a Hot Rod article years ago about a Blown hemi '70 Barracuda in SoCal owned by a guy named Sal Gonzales. He got 1.4 gallons per mile. The horsepower was unreal, but he could only go 10 miles on a tank of ethanol. Granted this is extreme, but it does illustrate the lower energy content of ethanol vs gasoline. I think diesel has 4% higher energy content than gas.
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> Ethanol is a nightmare, look what it did to
> Brazil.
> Puts out tons of formaldehyde, which isn't tested
> for on the current smog tests. Makes a car tuned
> for gasoline, run like crap.
>
> BioDiesel is beautiful, sulfur free fuel, problem
> is that GM personally killed the automobile diesel
> market in the 1980's. Euro diesels are just
> wonderful cars that can't be sold here because of
> our crappy high-sulfur content diesel.
>
> Diesel is the near future, would love to see a
> Diesel/Electric/Hydraulic Accumulator Hybrid,
> 75/100 MPG easily obtainable.
>
> BGnR
ah, people still remember those Olds 350 gas engines redisigned into diesels?
As a racing gasser block they are hell for stout. Bore it .110 over and use some 425 and 403 parts, and it is indestructible. But as a diesel, it was crap.
And as for ethanol, you need either 20 or 40% more by volume to get the same amount of energy out of a gallon of gas.
So your miles driven on a tank of fuel is far less, and cost per gallon as a straight comparison isn't valid.
Do you remember if it is 20 or 40% Rusty?
This was plainly obvious when I read a Hot Rod article years ago about a Blown hemi '70 Barracuda in SoCal owned by a guy named Sal Gonzales. He got 1.4 gallons per mile. The horsepower was unreal, but he could only go 10 miles on a tank of ethanol. Granted this is extreme, but it does illustrate the lower energy content of ethanol vs gasoline. I think diesel has 4% higher energy content than gas.