Originally Posted by TheFrog
Not true, france has been using 10% ethanol in all cars and trucks for over 5 years. The emergance of fuel injection has had manifold heaters unneeded. As for a vehical "equiped to do so" every ford expolrer has been since 1995. For any fuel injected car not made to use E85, the conversion would simply be reprogramming your ECU.
You must have misunderstood my comment, I never said you couldnt use 10% ethanol.
The above is not true, as any and every FFV has a manifold heater and other special componets, especially seals, even fuel injected models.
FFV vehicles have sensors that adjust the timing according to how much e85 is in the tank in comparison to regular gas.
Simply reprograming the ecu on a non-FFV could allow you to run e85, but you couldn't run regular gas as the timing would be way out of wack, unless you re-programed the Ecu back.
I know that my '00 Taurus FFV gets 3-5 mpg less on E-85 than regular gas. (<--example of a vehicle to run E-85 safely in)