E-85? - Honda Prelude Forum

Tyknowlden · 12-09-2010, 08:36 PM

hey guys, i just bought an E-85 conversion kit for my car im hoping to see some bigger hp and torque gains from it, but i was told that E-85 is super acidic and would rot my head, lines, etc im just curious has anyone tried this yet in their ludes? and how did it go, does anyone have any advise? i already bought the kit and dont wanna loose my money but i for sure dont wanna corrode my stuff =p

G_Loc · 12-10-2010, 11:27 AM

wtf? Link to said kit

BTW, you should have asked all these questions before spending the cash on such a thing

prepreludesh · 12-10-2010, 08:21 PM

There is a guy on here (Geramy) who runs E-85 apparently just fine on his Prelude. Nothing in the fuel system (except injectors) needed swapped out.

minilogoguy18 · 12-10-2010, 08:31 PM

Depending on modifications to your engine is and if you are able to tune it to take advantage of e85 you more than likely wont see any increase in power at all.

Tyknowlden · 12-11-2010, 09:12 AM

well i have researched it, and you get better performance because it burns more fuel and its higher octane then pump gas, from what i know this kit just has to make the injectors dump more fuel into the cylinder and tell the computer to burn more fuel, but i was talking with my teacher and he was saying that the E-85 can go bad in a matter of days and be super corrosive especially here because not alot of people use E-85 he also said it could eat components of my head and block it could be so corrosive which is what im mainly worried about. =(

petern101 · 12-12-2010, 03:01 PM

^obviously not enough research if you are asking these type of questions.

Higher performance at a cost of mpg. Also you need a bit more than injectors, I do believe it requires another fuel line or something (probably fuel pump too).

You running E85 on what mods you probably have on your car would be like adding an intake.

Tyknowlden · 12-12-2010, 09:55 PM

hmmm well if its just like adding an intake its not worth losing my mpg. i knew that was a factor but i heard from a few people that the higher octane and more fuel burning would add (30 hp and 50 ft lbs) i wasnt expecting quite as much but if its just like adding an intake then its hardly worth it haha

G_Loc · 12-12-2010, 10:24 PM

So what kit did you buy?

petern101 · 12-13-2010, 08:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Tyknowlden

hmmm well if its just like adding an intake its not worth losing my mpg. i knew that was a factor but i heard from a few people that the higher octane and more fuel burning would add (30 hp and 50 ft lbs) i wasnt expecting quite as much but if its just like adding an intake then its hardly worth it haha

You can hear a bunch of things. It's just like those intake people claiming as much as 15 hp, but that's probably on a viper or some car with a really restrictive intake and this free's it up alot.