Project Farm: Ethanol vs Non-Ethanol fuel test

[itsgalf]

I don't know if you all also follow this guys videos on youtube - I find most of them quite informative actually.
Anyways, Project Farm just put out a video of efficiency and comparison of carbon deposits of Ethanol vs. Non-Ethanol fuel. I thought you guys might find it interesting enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEf9Fdvx_Sc

Of course he's only doing a short term test, so it's not one of his more scientific tests.

- Marco

 

[Ronno6]

Interesting test results.
I do look forward to his test on rubber parts and carb parts.
I will take note of which parts he uses for those tests, as carb gasket kits
have had to change composition of gaskets and rubber parts in order to stand up better to ethanol.
That is the reason who carb kits that used to cost $12.00 now cost $60.00.

I have no issue with running ethanol blended gasoline.
The trouble occurs when it is left in the carb and not run for a period of time.
Ethanol induced carburetor problems plagued me for years while living in Florida,
where non-ethanol gas was very expensive and hard to find.
Having moved to South Mississippi, I find non ethanol gas readily available and not so expensive.
I have not had a single carburetor problem since the move................

 

[Boobala]

Having moved to South Mississippi, I find non ethanol gas readily available and not so expensive.
I have not had a single carburetor problem since the move................

That's cause ya sold all your lawn equip. .. hired a lawn-service, and ya just peddle ur arse all over town, on ur ..." BI-" cycles...:laughing:..:laughing:

 

[Ronno6]

Having moved to South Mississippi, I find non ethanol gas readily available and not so expensive.
I have not had a single carburetor problem since the move................

That's cause ya sold all your lawn equip. .. hired a lawn-service, and ya just peddle ur arse all over town, on ur ..." BI-" cycles...:laughing:..:laughing:

Not hardly:............
2 lawn tractors
A Raptor SD54
7 walk behinds
A chipper/shredder
A dedicated chipper (I love that thing,,,)
Several chainsaws,string trimmers and a leaf blower.......

And ZERO Carb problems............

 

[7394]

:thumbsup:

 

[Darryl G]

For many us the only option for ethanol-free gas is to buy it in cans, which I do, but only for my seldom-used hand-held equipment that tends to sit for a while between uses such as hedge trimmers, chain saws etc. I think I burned a total of 3 gallons this past season. Keep in mind that letting any fuel sitting in a carb for long periods of time can gum up your carb, but ethanol seems to degrade, corrode and damage more than just gum things up.

 

[Ronno6]

For many us the only option for ethanol-free gas is to buy it in cans, which I do, but only for my seldom-used hand-held equipment that tends to sit for a while between uses such as hedge trimmers, chain saws etc. I think I burned a total of 3 gallons this past season. Keep in mind that letting any fuel sitting in a carb for long periods of time can gum up your carb, but ethanol seems to degrade, corrode and damage more than just gum things up.

The vid showed how to remove the ethanol....add water, wait for water/ethanol to separate out remove.
But that is tedious and the resulting gasoline will be a lower octane.
I'm jus' sayin'.................

 

[Mkala]

Hello,

I follow this dude too on YT, and yes most of videos are nice and informative. Even if content tend to spread a bit out of small engines related things

For efficiency, not a surprise. For same volume you have to inject a more fuel to keep stoichiometric. People that convert their car to E85 knows this, most of the time they have to replace for higher volume injectors, to be able to have good AFR. Even if E85 allow to reach more power, with more aggressive ingition timing, as said thanks to better octane rating.

For customer, ethanol in fuel is a bad thing in my opinion... most of the time fuel with ethanol is not cheaper (or the price for ethanol-free is rising). This mean for our cars we loose fuel efficiency and for our small engines we are corroding our carbs... so not really a fan. :thumbdown:

 

[Darryl G]

The vid showed how to remove the ethanol....add water, wait for water/ethanol to separate out remove.
But that is tedious and the resulting gasoline will be a lower octane.
I'm jus' sayin'.................

I add Star-Tron fuel treatment to my equipment if I need to store it and it's not running canned fuel. It seems to work.

 

[7394]

I never run canned fuel, since I'm in farming country. So access to 100% gas is easy & priced right as well.