I was wondering if anyone has converted their truck for E85? and if they had how hard was it? Also if it is possible to convert? any kits? or what would need to be done? any ideas, thoughts, are welcome, just tossin' the idea out there

 

Would not help around here as there is no E85 available. I assume it is in your area?

 

I think too many internals would have to be swapped out, besides there is little to no advantage in E85, around here it's about 25% cheaper and you lose a good 25% MPGs anyhoo...

 

ive got the flex fuel 4.7 and e85 is 26% cheaper and im getting a 24% decrease in gas mileage im only saving like a penny so i dont see it to be worth the cost to convert

 

It is very corrosive and requires special tuning because it is very inefficient as far as BTU output.

 

OTOH, it has around 110 octane so forced induction vehicles can't buy enough of the stuff. It's like having race gas at pump gas prices, even with the lower mpgs.

There's nothing about our trucks that would benefit from E85. I'll bet the new turbo F150 would be a monster on E85 and a custom tune.

 

I'm testing a lil and as of right now I'm running a E23 blend with no problems and the same mpg i was that i was getting E10, so no dropoff in mpg yet. but i have noticed a slight performance boost

 

Gonna cause issues running it long term. There are a few studies out now that have some real negative findings of vehicles built before '07 that are having internal issues just from running E10 over a period of 100,000 miles, so I'd hate to think what the E23 would do over time...

 

ive had people come up and ask me lately what this flexfuel thing is on my tailgate i keep telling them its nothing different it just means i can run e85 in this truck and then they say "oh you mean you cant run it in all cars?" so i guess people around here are putting it in whatever they can so if your a mechanic might be worth setting up shop around here haha

 

I have heard that you have to have the right gas lines and so on. I think they have to be stainless or a speacel lines to run e85 thats why some vehicles can use it. Its more corosive