does anyone know of a tuner available for a v10 that would allow you to run e85 me being from the midwest and ethonal being so much cheaper not to mention that i farm i am very interested in the possibility of running e85 it any info would be appreciated.

 

swampo
I do not know about tuners that might do what you want but I can tell you the Ford V10s that I own run very poorly on the clean air seasonal fuels I get stuck with when I travel.

Personally I have no earthly idea what e85 is but it sounds like from the name it is equivilent to 85RON and I am always telling people to run name brand 87 octane and some times mid grade 89 is better in very hot and higher altitude situations.

My personal trucks like Chevron with techron and get about 1.2 mpg better when compared to all the other local or national brands here. Others on these sites say they don't detect any difference between brands and some folks have very good reports with Shell. There are a few out east that swear by BP fuel.

Almosteverybody agrees that the "blended" fuels are sluggish and hurt performance. And once out of that region and good fresh gas the power comes right back so we know it is the "clean air blends" that are mandated in some regions.

I beleve most folks who have the V10 are seeking better preformance and my attitude is if you have one of these beasts and plan to use it then stop worrying about MPG. All heavy air dam shaped trucks get lousy fuel milage. Especially towing or hauling.

If you need great MPG get a Prius... I know that is harsh but it is a big damned truck!

 

E85 is a mixture of 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline.

This is an interesting question: GM has offered a version of their 5.3 V8 that is capable of running normal gas as well as E85 for a fairly nominal cost (my brother-in-law who owns just such a beast reminds me all the time).

I have always been curious what is required to be able to run both. I've never heard any word from Ford on this.

Bill

 

A while back, I had a 99 Ranger 4X4 that would run on gas or E85. It sucks. I got about 21 mpg on gas and 13 to 14 on E85. The E85 was a nickel a gallon cheaper than gas. Do the math, it wasn't even close. Minnesota also uses ethanol blended gas year round and I get the worst milage here. Drove crosscountry in the Ranger in 2000, again in 2002 in the wife's Liberty and again in 2004 with my 99 dually. I got the worst milage in Minnesota because of the blended gas. Now the state wants to up it from 10% to 20% blend. Can't wait to see what that does to milage.

 

Bill thanks for schooling me .... and dang if I should have known that though. I don't think it was listed as "e85" in the artical I read. Maybe it was and I just got fixated on the "corn" ethonol gasoline blend.

Now I gotta look up some more things and reread my owners manual because I think Ford does have a option to burn blends and somewhere I think is a strong suggestion to NOT burn certain methonol blends, I don't know how chemicaly similar ethonol is.

 

I would suggest that you talk to your local Ford dealership. As far as I know, they only offer E-85 use in the smaller cars and trucks/SUV's. E-85 will definately get you less gas mileage. Also, availability is an issue. Last time I checked, E-85 was more or less only available around big cities(In Illinois, only around Chicago and maybe St. Louis area). FS gas stations might carry it though.

Best of luck.