Mixing eth and non eth??

General Boats and Motors
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Got some of the E-free gas at Duncan’s today. I actually noticed my motor running more smoothly when I got home and flushed it today. I didn’t notice a difference when I was running on the water, but I could hear it when it was out. I can say from experience with my lawn mower and weed whacker that the E-gas is horrible stuff.

Semper Fi
18’ Sterling
115 Yamaha
Big Ugly Homemade Blue Push Pole

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Chris
The water level drops with e-gas. Reason being alcohol will mix with water (wiskey & water) as well as gasoline (the old product called dry gas used to remove water in a fuel system was a form of alcohol) so the water gets sucked up by the e-gas. Try it sometime, it is an interesting work bench experiment.

ZX

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quote:
Originally posted by Redfish_matt

In terms of just math, if you have 20 gallons of the ethanol blend (10% ethanol) and you top off with 20g of non-ethanol, then you did cut your ethanol percentage in half (you’re down to 5%).

That is the correct math and the correct answer.

Ron
2000 Camano Troll
North Charleston, SC

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quote:
Originally posted by chris V

what additives are they using in place of MTBE when they are not using ethanol?

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I believe it is ETBE. Probably just as bad as MTBE, but it just hasn’t been in the media like MTBE

Wellcraft V-20 sportfish with a 200 Evinrude

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