Mike mentioned on another topic he was toying with the idea of using e-85 as a source of fuel, and said he might have to give up on that idea due to the larger fuel requirements.
I was also toying with the idea myself with the belief that with more tq more gear should be easy to handle and with a switch pitch, i could make a sort of poor mans overdrive. E-85 has been proven to make more tq than equivalent race gas*(1) and with 105 octane at command and a boost in compression to around 12:1 on a engine that made(stock) 445ft/lbs at somewhere in the 2k RPM range with 10.25:1 compression i could stick highway gears in the back end and still be able to run like a banshee so long as i can get the power to the ground...
in theory it sounds good, but...
what size fuel cells are all of you guys running right now? I know most t-buckets i see right now have the 14 inchbed, but i've also seen 20 inch ones also? would the larger bed size give enough room to run a large enough cell to make it worthwhile?
*(1) I'm making reference to a primedia mag(not sure which one, PHR, hot rod, or car craft) where they took a race engine and tested e-85 against 107 octane race fuel, and the 105 octane e-85 made about the same HP, but more TQ(suposedly from the cooling effect the extra fuel atomizing had on the incoming air charge, this is all theory though)
I was also toying with the idea myself with the belief that with more tq more gear should be easy to handle and with a switch pitch, i could make a sort of poor mans overdrive. E-85 has been proven to make more tq than equivalent race gas*(1) and with 105 octane at command and a boost in compression to around 12:1 on a engine that made(stock) 445ft/lbs at somewhere in the 2k RPM range with 10.25:1 compression i could stick highway gears in the back end and still be able to run like a banshee so long as i can get the power to the ground...
in theory it sounds good, but...
what size fuel cells are all of you guys running right now? I know most t-buckets i see right now have the 14 inchbed, but i've also seen 20 inch ones also? would the larger bed size give enough room to run a large enough cell to make it worthwhile?
*(1) I'm making reference to a primedia mag(not sure which one, PHR, hot rod, or car craft) where they took a race engine and tested e-85 against 107 octane race fuel, and the 105 octane e-85 made about the same HP, but more TQ(suposedly from the cooling effect the extra fuel atomizing had on the incoming air charge, this is all theory though)
