3/5 of a mile in 10 seconds...
Posted on 03/31/2015 6:33:41 PM PDT by nascarnation
3/5 of a mile in 10 seconds...
I have done fuel ethanol research. Not much point in it for ordinary use, but alcohol fuel has well-known performance properties. That’s why it’s used in racing and, in this case, tuners.
yup... funny movie
If you want better fuel mileage better to go with pure, 100% gasoline. I don’t know why we have it in gasoline in the first place. To keep the farmers happy?
23 minutes 17 seconds spent STOPPED.
“It also has negative actions in the engine.”
There are many negative effects of running ethanol in engines.
http://www.fuel-testers.com/list_e10_engine_damage.html
http://www.fuel-testers.com/ethanol_engine_precautions.html
Pure coincidence, I’m sure......
It’s not mpg, it’s horsepower. Engines are built or tuned to more-or-less specific fuel. Someone running a GT-R doesn’t care about mpg, but might want an extra 20 horsepower.
If we ever decide to hit Iran I want him on the planning team.
So the reason for the ethanol in gasoline is give everyone a horsepower bump with the trade off being a loss of mileage?
My old college room mate was one of the 47 entrants in the last Cannonball Classic in 1979 He bought a Pontiac TransAm specially ordered for power AND fuel economy. He added little else, and didn’t win, either. He said one classic comment came from an apparently Irish cop speaking to a team dressed as priests: “But Father, wouldn’t it be a sin if I put 80 on the ticket, when you were actually doing 120?
The politicians and the environmentalists.
Both ethanol and MTBE were promoted, accepted and mandated as oxygenators that would make fuel cleaner burning back in the nineties.
As it turned out, they were totally unnecessary and MTBE was its own toxic nightmare.
Fuel ethanol for the general public is a carryover from the ‘70s when it looked like petro was a lot more limited in supply and vulnerable to Middle Eastern sources. Once the government started, it won’t die.
Alcohols are similar; ethanol, methanol, butanol are similar for fuel. Corn feedstock is just the cheapest right now.
The race case here was getting a drive-by-wire car that would accommodate a high -horsepower engine. The Nissan and Infiniti use part-bin parts and the GT-R is one of the hottest engines on the road for it’s price. Clever fit. Alcohol fuel is just for extra hp in the heavier vehicle.
I would have looked at a diesel for this trip.
Of course, they were right. Still, the legend of Cannonball Baker was immortalized by Brock Yates and Dan Gurney in the first "race" and lives on today.
Here is a good first hand history
While it may be dumb, the fact is that when there is a recognized record in anything, there will be someone who wants to break it.
“door to door is more like 8 or 9. standing in line at the airport needs to be counted.”
I would add travel time to and from the airport.
no he announces on april 1 for the noise. and the statute of limitations on road laws as the article states look like to be a year. i think the guy is legit. he’s got 7 video cameras they should all have gps enabled
The smoke screen part -their using it and it working - doesn’t sound real.
Not in 2015.
E85 is essentially store bought race gas. It’s cheaper and much more common.
Hmmmm... what day is this?
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