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Well, lets put it this way, to and from work, transportation only - no amuzement intended, I mostly drive our second car - a Suzuki Swift converted to run on Ethanol (E85), gives me a fuel consumption of about 0.6 Litre Ethanol per 10 kilometres mostly city driving, and is easy to find a parking...

Yes, Methanol is quite agressive on both hoses, gaskets, aluminium, engine oil, and so on.. Ethanol is a little bit friendlier but valveseats, fuellines, fuelpump, injectors and so on should be swapped to parts that are veryfied that they are ethanol resistant. (many parts already is resistant...

For me it´s 142,48 AUD 110,89 USD To fill my 65 litre tank (17,2 us gallon, 14,3 imp gallon)

Ethanol is also a superb fuel for our beloved engines, E85 that we have here in sweden, (85% ethanol, 15% petrol - 102-103 octane) can give approx +20% in power over 98 octane.

Here on the gas station next to my job, we have: E85 (ethanol) 1,312 AUD / 1,021 USD per litre Diesel 1,869 AUD / 1,454 USD per litre 95 octane 2,058 AUD / 1,602 USD per litre 96 octane 2,086 AUD / 1,623 USD per litre 98 octane 2,108 AUD / 1,641 USD per litre 99 octane 2,192 AUD / 1,706...

top mount = bad solution, the Subarus WRC team isn´t using them, they go Front mount on their race car because of heat problems. If you have problems with space, go for a water to air intercooler, skip the top mount, heat rises and a hood scoop that builds pressure inside the enginebay often...

Problems with 20psi.. hmh? time to do modify combustion chambers and/or chose a better ecu and intercooling? SAAB 9-5 AERO can push approx 22psi 100% STOCK on pump gas. The trionic ecu is a Nm request ecu that in some cases will allow 22psi to compensate for great load on ac, alternator...

If you plug one of them, there can be a problem with waterflow in that area, and if so, a gas-pocket will form that makes the coolingproblem even worse and your engine will overheat localy (will probably NOT show on your temp gauge). That, may cause everything from knock/detonation to...

What I mean is that their dyno would look much nicer if the turboinstallation would be where it´s supposed to be. With a turbo placed nearer the engine, the engine could support a larger turbine and make higher boost with the same backpressure and same lag. With a turbo placed far away, like...

Water through the inside of the IC, air through the outside is the most efficient way - less pressuredrop and much, much lighter. An oversized radiator is a good thing since the (sum of) thermal efficiency of a water to air intercooler is less than a air-to-air intercooler. If waterspray is...

Hate to be the party spoiler, but if a rear mount is up for consideration, one should catch up a little bit on the thermodynamics. A rear mount treats a turboinstallation like a turbo would be some kind of fan-driven compressor, wich it´s not. A turbo converts both mass flow and heat to a...

There should be a restrictorplate in the turbos oil inlet which restricts the oil flow so the turbo won´t get to much pressure on the seals. Most often, oil hose diametre is enough to transport enough oil so that the turbo have oil flow within spec, meassure pressure just before the turbos oil...

About the shock towers - Ronnie dosn´t think anyway but "out of the box" it´s extremely interesting to study his solutions to various problems, different and wery much Ronnie! (in a good way that is!) The most obscene part about that car, is that the builder claims a total cost of less than...

How big is the tank?

Slide throttle plates can work wery good, a tuner-friend of mine here in Sweden has built this Manta for himself, (Turbo AND supercharger...) it has a individual sliding throttleplate construction and the throttle control and throttle response is awesome!! (if you can work around the problems...

Square bore/Stroke = bore equals stroke Undersquare = more efficient engine, better mileage, max torque earlyer in the powerband. Oversquare = more responsive engine, max torque higher up in powerband, more horsepower. The stroke/rod ratio also say alot about how much revs and abuse an...

Vintage -75 here, just passed the big 3-0. No kids, but living with a wonderful woman, we´ll se what comes.. =) Always have some project going on. Right now I´m trying ot put together a hopefully winning raceteam for enduranceracing. Spent last year and the winter researching another...

Are you shure of the rebadging? I spent last weekend road-mapping a microtech LT12 and the 034 ecu seems to have some functionality that Microtech doesn´t. The casing and tuning software is also different. http://www.microtechefi.com/html/LT.htm

The essence of the idea behind the chassie strenghtening made on the pantera could be applyed to the lexus. Göran Malmberg is extremely competent, if you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact him - he´s an enthusiast, if you can catch his interest, he´ll help you out.

I´ve heard of starter/alternators that can deliver approx 50Amps, it´s not much, but if you run N/A and don´t need bigger fuelpumps, more spark, boostcontrol and so on, it just might work. (keep of the stereo, heated seats and rearwindow, and don´t run the fan at max while using the...