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Shraka Forums Junkie Location: Melbourne Registered: November 2003	Re: Where do the different kind of fuels come from? Thu, 15 September 2005 05:54 Ethanol is made from lots of things. In australia it's made from the leftovers of the suggar refining process. In America it's made from corn. Ethanol is less like petrol, and more like beer. There isn't anything wrong with Ethanol in your engine. It actualy has a higher octaine than petrol, and runs cooler (so good for race applications - or so I hear). Anything over about 10% Ethanol will start to cause problems with stock tuning and may start wearing some parts of your fuel lines (much like unleaded petrol will to an unleaded car). They have cars in America that can run on 85% ethanol, 15% petrol. But nobody uses them as most of them don't even know their cars can run on ethanol. Here's an interesting bit of trivia. The petrol companies where looking for something to make the combustion process smoother and more complete for petrol. They looked into ethanol to do this, but decided not to as they didn't want to hand over any money to farmers, especialy as ethanol could replace petrol if the drive was there. So they went for lead instead. They eventualy replaced lead with whatever is in unleaded petrol, as lead was a pullutant. Ofcourse, ethanol runs a lot cleaner than petrol too, which is a plus. [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	Where do the different kind of fuels come from?	adamaw11	Thu, 15 September 2005 05:12
	Re: Where do the different kind of fuels come from?	berad	Thu, 15 September 2005 05:19
	Re: Where do the different kind of fuels come from?	ehendrikd	Thu, 15 September 2005 05:24
	Re: Where do the different kind of fuels come from?	Damone	Thu, 15 September 2005 05:25
	Re: Where do the different kind of fuels come from?	adamaw11	Thu, 15 September 2005 05:42
	Re: Where do the different kind of fuels come from?	Corona RT142	Thu, 15 September 2005 05:47
	Re: Where do the different kind of fuels come from?	ehendrikd	Thu, 15 September 2005 05:53
	Re: Where do the different kind of fuels come from?	Shraka	Thu, 15 September 2005 05:54
	Re: Where do the different kind of fuels come from?	Corona RT142	Thu, 15 September 2005 05:55
	Re: Where do the different kind of fuels come from?	Toymad	Thu, 15 September 2005 06:22
	Re: Where do the different kind of fuels come from?	illuminatus	Thu, 15 September 2005 06:41
	Re: Where do the different kind of fuels come from?	Toymad	Thu, 15 September 2005 07:16
	Re: Where do the different kind of fuels come from?	illuminatus	Thu, 15 September 2005 06:43
	Re: Where do the different kind of fuels come from?	BabyZ	Thu, 15 September 2005 06:47
	Re: Where do the different kind of fuels come from?	ehendrikd	Thu, 15 September 2005 06:51
	Re: Where do the different kind of fuels come from?	Shraka	Fri, 16 September 2005 07:01
	Re: Where do the different kind of fuels come from?	EldarO	Fri, 16 September 2005 07:26

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