E10 Additives on Fuels

[ariscmarquez]

Have you tried E10 fuels on your Carbed engines?
Here in the Philippines, they are starting to implement on adding Etnanol on all Gas Variants
Which is happens to be, many shared their experiences of using this on their cars with carbs.
Most of them had a bad experiences, either having hard starting or clogged and dirty carbs, loss of power.
You will find many articles on the internet that E10 can be use on carbed engines and can do add more HP on your car,
much better emissions, better mileage, lower price.
And so im confused, which is which are true? actual experiences or technical write ups?

[Petros]

Lies, lies, lies. I have been using the 90/10 gas/alcohol mix for a number of years. If you keep it fresh it works okay, you get a little less power out of the engine, it cost more and you get less economy. In my (more populous) county our state mandates the ethanol mix, but I am near the northern edge, where in the next county they sell pure gasoline.

Same brand of gas, same size town, costs 4-5 cents less to by gasoline, and I get exactly 5 percent better economy. Alcohol mix will burn fine in the carbed engine, but ethanol has less energy per gallon and cost more to make the gasoline. So there is no savings and you bet worst fuel mileage. Overall there is a larger impact to the environment with the ethanol blend, and is a stupid waste of resource, but corn farmers are getting rich and want to keep their gravy train coming at our expense.

The real problem comes when you park the car, or any engine, for long time with the ethanol mix, it attracts water and promotes corrosion. Our generator carb rusted to a solid mass when I did not drain the fuel from the last time I used it. boat motors, chain saws, lawn mowers, and similar devices that you leave to sit for long periods of time will suffer the same fate. If you are going to store your car you either should add additives for storing gas, or better yet drain the tank and allow the engine to run until "dry" (to empty the carb). I would add a quart of motor oil to the gas tank to prevent rust too.

If it is run regularly, you are probably okay, it just cost more and you get less economy from it.