Gasohol Re: <VV> corvair and ethanol - no one?

[FrankCB at aol.com]

Paul,
       What you used was only 10% (at the most) ethanol (E-10) so it was 
hardly equivalent to E-85 which is 85% ethanol.  Since E-10 has only 10% ethanol 
it has properties only a little different from straight gasoline (E-0).
       Frank Burkhard

In a message dated 8/23/05 9:28:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
paulvair at yahoo.com writes:

> When I first started driving in the seventy's, gasahaol was sold for a 
> short while. I used it in my 65 500 coupe with a 110. It was during the summer 
> and it seemed to work just fine.At the time the price was about the same as 92 
> octane gas. I can't remember how much was in it but it smelled like boose 
> instaed of gas.I didn't check the mileage but I didn't notice anything differant 
> in performance or driveabillity.
>     I have read where you need more of it to do the same work as gas and 
> when it's cold it's hard to start the engine. bigger jets should fix the mixture 
> problem and some gas to start the thing when cold should fix that problem.
>           Paul Fox
>