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Believe it or not most passenger cars won’t run on ethanol unmodified these days. Even running on 50 or 80% ethanol blends usually requires custom ECU maps to run.

Let’s not even talk about all the things in the fuel system that seem to have a shorter life with ethanol involved, particularly injectors.



you need to spray 30% more fuel if it’s ethanol than if it’s gasoline, no?




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