I dont see why there are so many people on this web site against ethanol?While not really just saying no you cant do it,want to discourage you from doing it. Go ahead and build your motor after you study up on it.I think from what Ive read in the past you can run alcohol in any motor with a carburetor on it.You have to change the jets maybe 2 sizes bigger if I remember right.While you are at it maybe rig up a turbo on it too.Since you have to put more fuel in it,maybe it will help your efficiency to force feed it some air and cut back on your fuel some. The thing about straight alcohol was they had to spray the carburetor internal parts with WD40 when they shut it off,because the alcohol would rust it to where it would sieze up.Thats maybe part of the reason for E85,so there is a little gas in there to keep stuff from siezing up. Read all you can so that when you get ready to get your parts,you can ask somebody and know what they are talking about when they answer.Those alcohol pulling trucks put out lots of power,and dont have water for a cooling system.I think with the right combination,and that probably means a turbo,you can build a motor that gets close to as good of gas mileage(maybe better)then gas,and plenty of power.I dont think you even need fuel injection unless thats what you want to build.They use carburetors on those pulling trucks at least they did a few years ago. If its fuel mileage you want,maybe build a v6 or 4 cylinder to use E85.I am reasonably sure that motors we have all over the place can be made to run on E85 and not be that hard to do.Where it might cause you to have problems is any rubber lines or rubber parts inside the carburetor would probably have to be replaced with new stuff that can stand ethanol.Anything that has a computer should be able to be set to where it will work.Yeah there are going to be those that say dont do it,or you cant,or it wont get as good of mileage,but thats always the way it is.You are doing the right thing because you can bet there are lots of people thinking the same way you are.Its only a matter of time and we all will be running E85.Somebody is going to figure out how to get good mileage with it,might as well be you as somebody else.
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