Has anyone else played around with the idea of converting an inline 6 to run on E-85? From what I understand the ethanol is rather corrosive so it is best to have stainless fuel lines, preferable a stainless gas tank and make sure the carburetor wont be damaged from the ethanol.
As far as carburetion it needs to run much richer than regular gas thus the jets might need to be enlarged. Also the timing should be slightly more advanced.
I have also read that to make a motor more efficient to run on E-85 the compression should be increased. Now E-85 needs a higher temp to vaporize and since the 230's manifolds are mated together this would be an advantage for having the higher vaporization temp right?
So basically I am thinking of converting one of my inlines to run on E-85. Although it depends if I want to go all out to tear it apart and increase compression, or just fiddle with the fuel delivery and timing. I would like to give it a try but don’t want to end up damaging my engine or having to do an early valve job since the motor I want to convert still runs on leaded gasoline. What do you guys think?
