i like to introduce me and my car. i am Berti from Germany.
Working as a chemical engeneer, i thought a lot about my possibilities to substitute the petrol. So i started testing ethanol in October 2005.
First i made blending tests, because the spirit contains 5% of water, but blending it with petrol was no problem. So i added about 10%. But that was not enough, and the part of the spirit rises to nearly 50%, which means that i drove on E50 without any modification.
My car is the Volvo 945 with the 2.3 engine and soft turbo (99kW).A friend who drives the same type of car, does the same.....but he is an electronic specialist and hobby mechanic. He found out that changing the control unit (ECU) chip by a chip of the non-turbo engine has the same effect as chaning the injectors: this increases the injected fuel up to 30% and more!!
he developed an electronic modification for the ECU for cold start, too. This combination allows us to drive onpure E85
But one disadvantage we have: driving on regular petrol is not possible any longer, the engine will run to rich on petrol.
btw: i have tested methanol and i-propanol, which i've got sometimes in little amounts, too. methanol MUST be waterfree, and its to toxic to handle it without care. i-propanol will rise the engine power a little more than ethanol, but its not made of plants (the same for methanol), so it' s not really an alternative.
