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[jakefake]

Yeah buddy sounds awesome, can't wait to see some pics of it all together

[vicelore]

There will be lots of pics and video don't worry

[CodeBurn3r]

What you doing with the Billy coils? I still want lol

ill have to come down soon and have a geeze mate. been ages..

[vicelore]

Prob going to sell them and try put away a bit more and get some BC`s..

More than welcome to pop down when ever mate... Iv got to fit the new rear 3.9 LSD diff i got the other day..

[vicelore]

So i went and spent a bit of time with the tuner tonight.. Spoke about clutches, turbo options and fuel..

He told me to obtain the power im going to get 300+ awkw im going to have to run a button clutch..

Also advised i should go down the E85 path.. I hadnt really thought about that but as long as i can find some servos around here that sell it..( i think there are a few) ill be going that way.. He said around 330 would be very obtainable..

[JRod]

Jim Berry single plate clutch will be fine. That is unless of course yoj want a pig to drive. Possible to run 2 tunes? One e85 and one on 98ron???

[Adam]

Yeah, what if ou wanna go on a long trip or something?

[vicelore]

Spose it would have to be well planned

I just had a look around vic and seems pretty good..

https://maps.google....180191,2.469177

Whats you guys thoughts on it ? think it is going to take off more in the future ?

I hadn't even thought about it before.

[JRod]

Was talking to some of my maintenance boys, one of which worked at a sugarmill and he was saying how the ethanol produced in them destroys the stainless pipes there. I know you need to keep an eye on your fuel system as you will be replacing parts during the course of its life more regularly than normal fuel.

Also need to upgrade to some bigger injectors. Power output you want might be some ID2000s for the e85. We were looking at this for my big engine build. Looking at $1500-$2000 for the fuel system on mine until i pulled the pin.

[allpaw4]

My advice would be leave ethanol alone. Jarrod is correct. Ethanol eats fuel lines and other fuel system bits. It acts as an acid. So one day you will be lovely and fine, and the next you risk killing that beautiful engine of yours as either the fuel pump dies or a high pressure line blows out and starves the engine of fuel. Not to mention the fire risks of a blown high pressure fuel line.

You will need to speak to engineers regarding the new fuel system, as the materials will have to be ethanol approved, and changing fuel lines is not something that regency/RTA will look upon favourably as a backyard job. Its not cheap to upgrade the fuel system complete. For the sake of an extra 10% horsepower (and if you increase the horsepower with better fuel, your safety margins are still the same as they were before, so dont think its safer to run ethanol at increased power over premium unleaded) its not worth the outlay. 300kw on the suby awd system will be enough. You'll have enough trouble with shafts, CVs and diffs with that power. Dont make the fuel system unreliable as well.

If you are willing to spend the money to do it right, then I say do it. But if you're not going to do it right, then dont it. Fuel systems are not safe when tinkered with incorrectly.

[vicelore]

Yea iv been warned about the cost Ill have to have new injectors any how and iv allready got a walbro.. so i was told a surge tank and another 2 pumps would be needed .. Great info on the maintance tho !!

nothing from this point on is happening at my garage.. All in the tuners..Defently given me something to think about tho guys..

Appreciate the opinion allot

[vicelore]

So from what iv been reading this morning about E85 it sounds like its going to be going into the car..

Is there anyone on here that has actually done it ? Or am i going to be the first.

[CodeBurn3r]

there are 2 guys in Melb i know of running it.. cant recall their names.. there is a thread on here somewhere... Servo locations are a problem though

[vicelore]

Oh ok.. The link above had tons of stations..

There is actually one next door to my work on lower dandenong rd..

[Adam]

I'm sure it will only grow in popularity. As long as more car manufacturers use it!!

[JRod]

You also know that the reason you run bigger injectors and fuel systems is because you burn through more fuel per 100km. Just making sure you know that with the extra power, you chew through your fuel faster.

[vicelore]

Always gonna be the way ay.. Im assuming when im not hard on the right foot it should be reasonable on the fuel.

I really need some more info on the fuel pump/surge tank setups i should be looking at... I havent even found one example of a suby build running it.

[Scuba-Roo]

Have a look on rexnet, my mates 180 on e85 has a surge pot with a bosch 044 on it and new fuel lines all the way to the injectors.

[JRod]

Have a look in this thread from RSLC. Pretty much what we were looking at for mine.

http://www.rsliberty...ighlight=Datman

[U-Shell]

there are 2 guys in Melb i know of running it.. cant recall their names.. there is a thread on here somewhere... Servo locations are a problem though

Get yourself running an E85 and 98 tune. Happy times no matter where you are then haha

There is a few people running it over on Club Liberty if you want to go for a stalk.