The post you answered, I wrote I was a "hot rodder". And that was
to get more energy out of alcohol than I could get ordinarily out of
supercharged gas. You brought the oranges into this.
You do know what the water in that alcohol will do to your engine
you plan to drive on the street, right?
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c wrote:
>
> Now you're comparing apples to oranges. A supercharged gasoline engine
> converted to alcohol will still require 2 to 2.2 times the fuel as it did
> when running on gasoline. If you take a normally aspirated gasoline engine,
> convert it to alcohol AND supercharge it, then maybe it will require 4 times
> the fuel. You take any engine properly tuned for gasoline and double the
> diameter of the fuel metering orifices, and you will have an engine that
> runs VERY rich, if at all.
>
> Chris