Yet another reason (coolant plumbing design fiasco, old and tired electronic modules) for me to be thinking Subie 2.2 conversion...I'm guessing that it would handle E15 better than an old VW waterboxer....anybody know?

Rich
San Diego

--- On Tue, 3/1/11, Tom Hargrave <thargrav@HIWAAY.NET> wrote:

From: Tom Hargrave <thargrav@HIWAAY.NET>
Subject: Re: What about E15?
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2011, 2:42 PM

Gas stations only have room for 3 grades of gas at the most - regular, mid
grade and premium. You can bet that all the stations will be switching from
the current 10% mix to the new 15% mix!

This does my 1970's vehicles no good at all!!!!!

Tom

www.towercooler.com

From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of
Anthony Egeln
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 12:23 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: What about E15?

Here's a quote I pulled from an e-newletter I get on alternate fuels:
"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has given the green light for E15
ethanol to be used in vehicle years 2001-2007"
Will our wasserboxers run on E15 if that becomes the fuel provided by most
retailers?� Seems like we're headed in that direction. Besides the obvious
loss of fuel economy (my syncro dropped from 18 to 16-17 when they went to
all E10), what would be other consequences?
Anthony'89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo)

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