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Ethanol... Good Or Bad For Ze Rotary?

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Old Jun 22, 2003 | 01:46 PM
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Gas stations only put in 10% ethanol, which isn't enough to worry about. From what I've learned while living in an ethanol producing state (could be biased), it doesn't affect newer rubber seals, but it has the same true octane lowering characteristics as oxygenated gas, so be careful when putting it in a turbo car.
Old Jun 22, 2003 | 01:50 PM
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Is that a speed checker or a speed camera.

167MPH, what car did that or is it broken.
Old Jun 22, 2003 | 06:32 PM
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Originally Posted by UniqueTII' date='Jun 22 2003, 10:46 AM
Gas stations only put in 10% ethanol, which isn't enough to worry about. From what I've learned while living in an ethanol producing state (could be biased), it doesn't affect newer rubber seals, but it has the same true octane lowering characteristics as oxygenated gas, so be careful when putting it in a turbo car.
Shoot--so when they list 93 octane, if it has 10% ethanol what's the real octane rating? I guess I'd better switch to generic gas before I do anything to increase boost...

Oh, and unfortunately I didn't participate in actually making that picture *sigh* just got it off the listed site.

Maybe once I get my reliability mods in, I don't have a front license plate anyway
Old Jun 23, 2003 | 01:41 AM
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Originally Posted by RX7GEN3' date='Jun 21 2003, 10:23 AM
I thought that ethenol was bad for cars... They made a big thing out of it on T.V,

on how bad it is and how it can stuff your motor.
Champ cars use Ethanol because it burns so damn cleanly.
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