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The real benefit when making the switch to E85 or flex fuel is the safety margin that is provided against detonation. Chasing NA numbers is difficult in itself, but reliability/safety

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The real benefit when making the switch to E85 or flex fuel is the safety margin that is provided against detonation. Chasing NA numbers is difficult in itself, but reliability/safety becomes an issue when climbing higher and higher up that ladder. Same thing for turbo and supercharged applications.

Flex fuel is one of the great things that our government developed and released to the public. Too bad not many companies (especially the outer lying stations) took the opportunity...........
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The real benefit when making the switch to E85 or flex fuel is the safety margin that is provided against detonation. Chasing NA numbers is difficult in itself, but reliability/safety becomes an issue when climbing higher and higher up that ladder. Same thing for turbo and supercharged applications.

Flex fuel is one of the great things that our government developed and released to the public. Too bad not many companies (especially the outer lying stations) took the opportunity...........
This is what my tuner did like. Beat the hell out of it on the dyno and i quote "not a bit, nothing, zero sign of any detonation at all!" I dont know how sensitive he made my knock sensor but for a track car this makes me feel good. Again i tested this batch of fuel at E80.
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