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I'd stay away from ethanol with an old landy... just my $.02. They weren't built to run on it and it has significantly different properties than petrol. This'll add up to inefficiencies and knocking, and who knows what else (i.e.: popcorn coming out of the radiator).
That being said, if you get a flex fuel car like a new Chrysler, Ford, or GM E85 is not a bad fuel if petrol prices rise up signifcantly. The new engines have computers that detect what mixture of gas/ethanol is in your tank and auto-adjust everything appropriately.
http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2...31/020480.html
Now, if you're a traditionalist and insist on using E85 on your series consider adding a computer processing unit to the engine from the same era - it may be able to do the same thing as those flex fuel engines. http://www.mediabistro.com/agencyspy...er%20image.jpg (trailer not included).
That being said, if you get a flex fuel car like a new Chrysler, Ford, or GM E85 is not a bad fuel if petrol prices rise up signifcantly. The new engines have computers that detect what mixture of gas/ethanol is in your tank and auto-adjust everything appropriately.
With the retail pump price of E85 averaging $2.91 per gallon in August, according to the Oil Price Information Service, a 27 percent fuel-economy penalty means drivers would have paid an average of $3.99 for the energy equivalent of a gallon of gasoline.
Now, if you're a traditionalist and insist on using E85 on your series consider adding a computer processing unit to the engine from the same era - it may be able to do the same thing as those flex fuel engines. http://www.mediabistro.com/agencyspy...er%20image.jpg (trailer not included).
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