Originally posted by three57mag:
Originally posted by Escortrs88:
Now i don't know much about running ethanol or how it works, but how different is what you guys are talking about to like what a drag car runs?

A person that i work with has a drag car that runs in the low 9's and it runs on ethanol. She told me that it is haft the cost of race fuel but you use twice as much, so in that regard its a wash. Performance they got .2 seconds when they switched over, and thats a lot when you are in the 9's. Down side, you get a lot of water in the oil, even with a oil/water separator they have to change the oil every day after being at the track. It also runs really cold, so cold that when driving in the pits and durring the pre-staging they run it on race gas because other wise it would not get up to temp for the run. Durring the run they turn the water pump off and at the end the water temp is only about 180 to 190 in the engine.

Now like i said, i don't know how different this type of setup is to what you are talking about.





they don't use ethanol they use methanol. and they don't use it because it has more stored energy. they use it because you only need about half the oxygen to make it burn




thank you thank you, sorry I havent been on for a while, my new trainer is kinda stinchy. anyway yeah methanol is used in drag cars, they dont use it in the pits or to start it cause it WILL detonate, parts everywhere, very bad.

What about alc with either propane or maybe an oxidizer, (maybe even HO, mmmmm rocket fuel) injected with it, possibly solve the "lower potential energy" (now going to be LPE for sake of quickness and efficiency) problem and get a large gain with a fuel that is about 1/3 as expensive.

I hate mcdonnalds