Oklahoma,AR,MO,KS,TX GTG (Next GTG 08/27/2016 ) Fort Scott, KS

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New air filter mod. Fattens up the mixture and bores the cylinder all while running................or until it seizes. :)

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Not sure. Gasoline mixture is about 14.2:1 for prober burning. If I remember correctly, alcohol is about 8:1. Just need a carb set up for alcohol and fuel lines, too. They like to run alcohol in race engines because it has a higher octane rating, so compression can be run higher than on gasoline. But the fuel economy is about half because alcohol has less BTU per gallon than gasoline. Because of this the price of E-85 needs to be about 60-70 cents cheaper/gallon than pump gas, just to break even. Down here E-85 is only about 40 cents cheaper than pump gas, thus costing more to run a vehicle in the long run.
 
So what do you all think that it would take to get a saw to run on e85 or e100 reliably as a daily user? I mean a firewood saw not some super hotrod and from a bio fuel perspective here.

I've seriously pondered that. I've got a friend that runs E100 in his drag car and another that runs E85 in his modified circle track car. They say that it's the only way to go. One of the guys here is a kart racer and offered me some of his neat stuff. It's has to match a 100-125cc engine and I'm not willing to modify any of my big boys. Could
mount a bar on one of his spare Parillas. :)
 
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