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oldcorollas Forums Junkie Location: Kita-Ku, Sapporo, Japan Registered: January 2003	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines... Sun, 23 October 2005 08:22 billmchenry wrote on Sun, 23 October 2005 18:12 i was just wondering if anyone has looked into using straight ethanol fuel to run a turbo eninge? IM thinking of making my own ethanol to power my st163.5. Any thoughts on any issues ppl? yup, we had this discussion not long ago 1) indy/champ (can't remember which) cars use methanol for their turbo motors, and speedway cars (sprint cars) also use methanol for their V8's. 2) you need approx double the volume of alcohol as petrol. so if you use 10L/100km now, you will use about 20L/100km with ethanol. 3) it is difficult to get ethanol dry enough. you can distill very carefully to maybe 90-95%, but this taks many passes and is a bit wasteful. to get better you need to chemicall dry it. 4) to produce enough ethanol to power your car for 200km a wek (40L) will be a very large drain on your time and your finances.. you need to buy the heat from somewhere. plus all the cooling water for the still. as well as the 400L of base material you need to get 40L of alcohol... thats 400L per week of distilling 5), i'm pretty sure it is not legal to make a still that large, regardlss of if it is for drinking or not. 6) cheaper to drive less walk more, use pedal less when driving, or move to a more efficient car, than to distill your own ethanol for use in a car. 7) you can already buy methanol/ethanol.. maybe aroudn $2 a litre? that makes it around $4/L in petrol equivalent. don't mind me.. give it a go anyway [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	billmchenry	Sun, 23 October 2005 08:12
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	oldcorollas	Sun, 23 October 2005 08:22
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	billmchenry	Sun, 23 October 2005 08:58
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	oldcorollas	Sun, 23 October 2005 09:02
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	billmchenry	Sun, 23 October 2005 09:31
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	Big Rob	Sun, 23 October 2005 09:22
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	kingmick	Sun, 23 October 2005 09:43
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	billmchenry	Sun, 23 October 2005 09:52
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	billmchenry	Sun, 23 October 2005 10:05
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	oldcorollas	Sun, 23 October 2005 10:12
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	jeffro RA28	Sun, 23 October 2005 09:47
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	jeffro RA28	Sun, 23 October 2005 09:56
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	kingmick	Sun, 23 October 2005 09:57
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	hurricane	Sun, 23 October 2005 10:05
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	kingmick	Sun, 23 October 2005 10:05
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	billmchenry	Sun, 23 October 2005 10:15
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	jeffro RA28	Sun, 23 October 2005 10:12
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	oldcorollas	Sun, 23 October 2005 10:16
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	billmchenry	Sun, 23 October 2005 10:19
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	billmchenry	Sun, 23 October 2005 10:25
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	jeffro RA28	Sun, 23 October 2005 10:19
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	jeffro RA28	Sun, 23 October 2005 10:32
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	love ke70	Sun, 23 October 2005 10:45
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	jeffro RA28	Sun, 23 October 2005 11:29
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	love ke70	Sun, 23 October 2005 11:33
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	billmchenry	Sun, 23 October 2005 10:46
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	Big Rob	Sun, 23 October 2005 12:30
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	thechuckster	Sun, 23 October 2005 13:36
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	Blown86	Sun, 23 October 2005 13:40
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	kingmick	Sun, 23 October 2005 21:55
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	hurricane	Sun, 23 October 2005 22:49
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	kingmick	Sun, 23 October 2005 23:00
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	Blown86	Tue, 25 October 2005 14:47
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	jeffro RA28	Mon, 24 October 2005 11:30
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	hurricane	Tue, 25 October 2005 22:22
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	RAV-GT4	Wed, 26 October 2005 04:07
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	kingmick	Wed, 26 October 2005 10:48
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	Blown86	Wed, 26 October 2005 15:01
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	sxr01r	Thu, 27 October 2005 13:18
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	oldcorollas	Thu, 27 October 2005 13:25
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	oldcorollas	Thu, 27 October 2005 13:29
	Re: Ethanol fuel and turbo engines...	oldcorollas	Thu, 27 October 2005 13:31

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