Ethanol Conversion Kit

Finding a E85 ethanol conversion kit.

Converting your old vehicle designed and engineered to operate on gasoline to run on E-85 ethanol is not as simple as many would lead you to believe. There are lots of changes that need to be made on

The main difference between FFV's (flexible fuel vehicles) and a vehicle engineered to operate on unleaded gasoline is in the fuel systems. The parts made of magnesium, aluminium and rubber will all corrode when exposed to alcohol and would have to be change. Stainless steel fuel tanks and differently calibrated fuel ignition systems would be needed in an ethanol conversion kit for it to be effective.

The major problem with an ethanol conversion kit is in the emissions controls. The Environmental Protection Agency has mandated that any type of conversion on a vehicle cannot alter the emissions approved at the time the car was manufactured. For example, if you have a 1984 Ford and you convert it to use E-85 ethanol, the emissions produced cannot be higher than those registered before the conversion took place.

The restrictions in older cars:

In many US states older cars, meaning those made before 1973, have fairly low emissions standards and many of the ethanol conversion kits on the market would comply with all these emissions standards. So therefore fitting a vehicle of this age with an after market ethanol conversion kit that is designed to work on a pollution controlled vehicle would be a great improvement.

Vehicles using E-10 fuel, that is fuel mixed with 10 percent ethanol and 90 percent gasoline, have no issues. However, vehicles attempting to use an ethanol conversion kit to utilize E-85 fuel, that is fuel mixed with 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline, will have EPA restrictions to be concerned about.

Most ethanol conversion kit manufacturers guarantee compliance on vehicles manufactured before 1974, but will not make the same guarantee on newer vehicles. Despite their systems' ability to automatically read and adjust to the type of fuel being burned, but ethanol conversion kits have not mastered the EPA requirements.

The problem with vehicles modified to run on E-85 ethanol is the difficulty in finding fuel as there are very few filling stations that offer it as a regular choice to buy. However, this lack as inspired the interest in producing ethanol also known as ethyl alcohol, drinking alcohol or grain alcohol, at home.

Readers have left 17 comments.

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Do you know more about conversion kits for 2001 dodge

\n This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ' title='Click to send email'>Submitted by jeff lewis,  • 2007-06-09 19:33:49

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Dan Lorenzo ?.Lead American engineer for the product Fullflex Gold has devised a bigger better Ethanol conversion kit named ECO-FLEX. The reason for this new design was to develop a better, faster, more responsive ethanol conversion kit that would retail for a lower cost. As lead Engineer for the product Fullflex gold Dan Lorenzo was the prevailing Technician that allowed this product to actually work and run within the parameters necessary to achieve the EPA compliance.
Dan Lorenzo is the Lead Engineer documented on the EPA forms for the product Fullflex Gold?? He found that by using the old analog technology that the performance would be inferior and the cost of this device to the public was far too expensive . By choosing a digital unit that could be developed at a much lesser price, Not only could allow better performance to the vehicle but also allow less of a loss of fuel mileage when using ethanol. It has been documented that a loss of 10% fuel economy was found when using this digital technology and ethanol and a transparent fuel mileage when using gasoline.
This new digital technology is currently being sold world wide with great response from the public.
Dan Lorenzo, CEO of Xpertech Automotive Inc. will continue developing quality products to better serve the American and other countries in this time and need to become less dependant on foreign fuels.
www.fullflexgold.com
1-800-376-6380

\n This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ' title='Click to send email'>Submitted by Dan Lorenzo,  • 2007-07-07 23:15:56

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I would believe the ethanol coversion on a fuel injected vehicle would be painfully easy- Bigger fuel injectors, retard the timing 10 degrees and a differtent fuel pump yours truely,
a mechanic.

\n This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ' title='Click to send email'>Submitted by Guest User,  • 2007-08-19 20:02:49

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Very interesting and informatiove. Thank you!!

\n This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ' title='Click to send email'>Submitted by Steve Hartman,  • 2007-08-25 15:26:47

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I would like to convert my 1963 F-250 to e-85 I got over a half-million miles on it and I want drive it in the futcher when gasoline is obselete

Submitted by tim bean,  • 2007-11-08 04:39:56

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I have a 1991 chevy truck,can I convert to e85?

Submitted by Guest User,  • 2007-11-17 23:36:42

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