[AT] Re[2]: [Farmall] running a Farmall H on ethanol

[Henry Miller]

On Sunday 04 September 2005 02:20 pm, DAVIESW739 at aol.com wrote:
> Spencer after being involved in one the  government studies using 85
> percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline I can tell  you that those figures
> had to be made up or just plain biased because in the  actual test we
> burned as much gas as we would have before the change over. also  we had to
> burn all that ethanol.
> I wonder where some people get there test  figures from. We sure couldn't
> do any better 5 to 6 MPG in a Chevy S 10 4  banger. Had to put a 40 gallon
> fuel tank on them to get back home from a town  trip.
>
> Of course we may have just been bad drivers or something thing like  that
> but I still say its not going to work and if it did them why don't we see 
> more of it. I would like to use ethanol if it was practical but its not.

Ethanol is perfectly practical in a good conversion.   Since you were getting 
those poor results we can conclude that your conversion is bad.    A 
conversion to 100% ethanol (that is one that will destroy an engine with just 
one tank of normal gas) will get the same milage on ethanol as gas, even 
though ethanol has 2/3rds the BTUs.    

A bad conversion is not a good test, no matter what you results are.   Try a 
modern E85 car.   You will get ~10% less range from a tank of E85, and still 
have the ability to run on gas.   This is a ok conversion, and since E85 
isn't available everywhere good enough.