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Difflock Royalty
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 Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:21 pm Post subject: Bio Petrol
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I was hijacking R@D's thread so I've moved it to here!
| . wrote: | | When is someone going to start growing petrol? |
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It's already available, otherwise known as bioethanol.
OK, it's not quite as compatible as bio-diesel is to dino-diesel, but bioethanol is basically similar to petrol. Some (not many) spark engines can take either fuel as standard.
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| . wrote: | | Aren't early Rover V8's, as fitted to my 101, 90 and lightweight supposed to run on anything that vaguely resembles petrol - how big a field do I need? |
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terence
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:31 pm Post subject:
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Potatoes my dear man , distilled alchol aka ethanol will run in a lada, and a series3 the russians have been doing it for a long time.
get some poteen and distill it and bung it in the 101....
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seires2steve
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Joined: 07 Jun 2006
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Location: seireis 2 1959& S3 1977
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| Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 9:41 am Post subject:
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| Which spark plugs are best for ethanol? What other changes must be made to run a S3 on it??? Whats the performance & mpg like??
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Mud Obsessed
Joined: 06 Feb 2006
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Location: Norfolk
1995 Land Rover Defender
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| Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 4:45 pm Post subject:
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All other things being equal, an ethanol powered engine will run cooler than the equivalent petrol engine. So, you could run a hotter plug; but you may not need to becasue it may not foul like a petrol version, can anyone confirm?
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Cartman
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Location: Near the 'Ring of Stones', Wiltshire
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| Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:58 am Post subject:
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You require more Ethanol by volume to generate the same amount of energy than you do with petrol so the carb would need rejetting.
Ethanol eats certain materials such as rubber so all diaphragms and seals in the fuel line would have to be checked/replaced.
Methanol runs cooler definitely but Ethanol I do not know 
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Mud Obsessed
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1995 Land Rover Defender
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| Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 4:45 pm Post subject:
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| cartman wrote: | | Methanol runs cooler definitely but Ethanol I do not know |
I an sure that ethanol does run cooler. I saw some figures (but I don't have a copy) from Lotus when they were testing a variable compression engine, which confirmed the cooler burn temperature.
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