Sir Charles Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 Has anyone converted their Lexus to run on E85 Ethanol? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOMEONE ELSE'S GOT MY NAME Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 Has anyone converted their Lexus to run on E85 Ethanol? Grain fuel isn't something you just simply convert to, as you would convert a naturally asperated 1976 chevy van to propane. Grain fuel (high percentage) is corosive, so you have to replace a lot of parts to overcome that issue. Then there's the issue of very few E85 filling stations. That's the good part. E85 was a scam invented by GM to make their worse gas guzzlers (suburban, tahoe, Yukon, ad infinitum) look better. You see, if (this is just an easy to understand example not reflective or actual percentages) for example your 16mpg guzzler uses a 50/50 mix of gas alcohol, you only have to count the gas towards fed mpg standards. Thus, your 16mpg guzzler went 16 miles on only 1/2 a gallon of gas! (wink wink) ... so your getting 32mpg. sounds unbelievable, but true. so when you add those fleet vehicles into the mix of the straight gas burners, it pulls their over-all fuel economy up. If that isn't pathetic, it gets worse. You see, you straigh gas burner that got 16mpg? When you DO find a E85 station? You'll only get maybe 14mpg . . . 20% worse fuel economy. so now you know why even those vehicles that CAN run E85 ... they don't. Gotta love it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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