In reply to alfadriver :
there is a website to find E85 and if you look it’s everywhere. You don’t need to go to that extreme (straight E85 ) a gallon mixed with a 1/2 a tank will give you somewhere around 15% alcohol which will run on most cars made since 2001 just fine. at a minimum it will clean your valves and injectors and go a long way to reducing deposits in the combustion chamber
In reply to frenchyd :
Except an early Miata isn’t that happy with more than E20, since it’s an early controller.
And the fuel choices in California are limited.
I get that you love ethanol, but it’s not the answer for an early California answer.
frenchyd said:In reply to alfadriver :
there is a website to find E85 and if you look it’s everywhere. You don’t need to go to that extreme (straight E85 ) a gallon mixed with a 1/2 a tank will give you somewhere around 15% alcohol which will run on most cars made since 2001 just fine. at a minimum it will clean your valves and injectors and go a long way to reducing deposits in the combustion chamber
straight E85 will cause a CEL on an OBDII car. It comes up as running too lean.
In reply to Brian :
One gallon of E85 to a1/2 tank of Regular E10 unleaded
this is the third time I’ve written it
In reply to frenchyd :
And that would still not have solved the OP’s problem.
In reply to alfadriver :
It might, But you could be right too, it might not. Minnesota stopped smog checking a decade ago
So the old tricks I used to get a dirty car to pass might not work.
frenchyd said:In reply to alfadriver :
It might, But you could be right too, it might not. Minnesota stopped smog checking a decade ago
So the old tricks I used to get a dirty car to pass might not work.
No, it would not. The cheap catalyst was largely not doing what it should do, and fuel would make no difference to the test that was done.
This isn’t the old sniffer test run in Minnesota, which was largely a good running engine w/o a catalyst. This is a complete, but old, emissions system target.
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