Drive Flex Fuel Vs. MotorWeek on Flex Fuel Conversion Kits

Drive Flex Fuel offers more information to the video produced by motorweek.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• e85
• conversion
• kit
• damage
• truth
• engine
• fuel
• pump
• valve
• seals
• rings
• lines
• filters
• ethanol
• flex
• hydrogen
• solar

[state8citizen]

Sounds great but you will never see its price drop low enough to cover the 26.5% loss in fuel economy. This loss also makes up for any reduction in CO2 emissions. So plan on spending around $30.00 more for a 300 mile road trip and no real reduction in CO2...like CO2 ever hurt anything, Ha.

It is also a "negative energy source," meaning that more energy is required to produce ethanol than it delivers as a fuel.

[DriveFlexFuel]

Where are you getting your numbers? Current factory flex fuel vehicles get around a 15% loss. Granted the old 1990s Tahoe did loose that much fuel mileage. Vehicles that have been converted loose between 10-15% depending on how you adjust the units. "Negative Energy Source" This is just a false statement. The newest in ethanol plants actually creates ethanol at as much as a 30% increase in energy over consumption. As another note gasoline is a negative energy source and always will be.

[state8citizen]

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[DriveFlexFuel]

The test was on one vehicle with no comparisons made between multiple manufactures and vehicle models. The Tahoe has always been know as a gas hog. The maker of this article also chose a flex fuel vehicle with the lowest possible compression. The higher the compression the better your fuel mileage. Using common sense here they did like all the others that are against Ethanol and chose the worst vehicle to test. You have to look at all sides of a test before falling for its results

[DriveFlexFuel]

Furthermore this video and contents are posted about the use of after market conversion kits not the use of factory flex fuel vehicles.

[piper54409]

This guy just got payed off. I bought a kit last year put it on my car. never did have anything go wrong yet and i burn up 3 tanks a week. So that guy needs to do his home work be for he runs his fat trap.

[Hellaciousoutlaw]

I dont know much about motorweak but I have been running e85 for years and have had no problems this guy is looking like a big horses ass

[atarijedi]

I was just wondering how these plugin kits can determine what kind of fuel is being used. From what I can tell, all they do is modify the pulse width to the injectors. So it doesn't know if E85 is being used to E75 or E70 or E10, I am wondering how exactly it works?

[TheUNCC23]

@Manny32V i was about to say, I did happen to find a video where they ran E85 on a non flex fuel car, and it actually helped the car.

[Manny32V]

this is a load of BS. you can run e85 all you want on late modle cars as long as is tunnerd properly.

[rrbigdan1]

91 Octane - $3.50 x 24gal tank = $84

E85 - $1.95 x 24gal tank = $47

You can basicaly fill up almost two full tank of E85 on one 91 Octane tank. So the 10-15% fuel consumption increse really does not matter.

Some newer car that came off the production lines can run E85 without any convertion. You stock sistem is made to run two times the specs needed. Fuel pump can handle, injectors can handle motor can handle its just easier buying this kit. PLUG AND DRIVE! E85 all the way!!!

[rrbigdan1]

This video is total crap, like you said all they are trying to do is sell you a new car. They screwed up, they pushed for this "FlexFuel" technology that they totaly forgot about the rest of the people who maybe be smarter than they are and found a way around it. Every engine is will be fine runing E85 however your engine will burn 10-15% more fuel. It takes more fuel to run which is what this product does, it tricks the computer into pushing more (10-15%) MORE fuel.

[IndyFan53]

Really?! I never knew they were fuel flexible.

[IndyFan53]

I'd rather use E85 because it is made domestically, renewable and more abundant than oil. It has preserved the engines of both of my cars and it doesn't fund the terrorists my enlisted family members are fighting right now. Plus after doing math with goverment rebates for using biofuels, it is actually cheaper for me to use ethanol. Best of all, we are not limited to using food sources to produce ethanol.

[mtooshort20]

This is true. But personally, i don't see how the slight decrease in the price per gallon from gasoline makes up for the large increase in consumption. I have a '06 Chevy Impala 3.5l Flex Fuel and i usually run Premium. I live about 17 miles from my job and use about one full tank every 8-9 days working 6 days a week. Using E85, it drops to 3-4 days....over 50% consumption!!....and i do drive lightly but have many hills as well. Not a hater, but for me, i just don't see spending double for gas.

[state8citizen]

Do you feel that a higher compression vehicle would raise the E85's mileage more than it would raise the mileage for the gasoline?

My understanding is ethanol has 37% less energy per gallon than gasoline. That is, it requires burning 1.6 gallons of ethanol to get the same amount of energy that you get from burning one gallon of gasoline.

Please show me where you have gotten your facts, I would like to read the study showing the 30% increase.

Thank you