IH8TOADS Silver Donating Members 3,618 Member For: 19y 7m 25d Gender: Male Location: OZ Posted 21/07/14 05:08 AM Share Posted 21/07/14 05:08 AM Live tuning is awesome....if I had the tech skills to link the CAN bus into a Haltec Elite I would do it. There's a few things the ford system won't do that is frustrating.So I put a new pump in my $hitbox BA and took the check valve out. Car was then horrible on cold starts. Put a new rail / injectors / reg in yesterday as well as a check valve. Car starts good again. In short....I like check valves especially when dealing with e85. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaz097 Bronze Donating Members 1,752 Member For: 13y 7m 11d Posted 21/07/14 05:47 AM Share Posted 21/07/14 05:47 AM A little off topic but I have just switched to e85 so it may be the culprit. When driving along then shift into neutral or even if I push the clutch in the revs come down as normal but then then drop very low very quickly, to the point where it stalled on me this morning. When the car is idling it's fine and even a free rev it's fine.(cold starting well so far) Cleaned the throttle body out but didn't help. Any pointers? Heading to see my tuner this arvo as only just got a retune Friday with the five-o injectors I posted ages ago. Also fitted a surge tank and fpr1200, so have a fair bit of new stuff happening at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kosij Donating Members 2,045 Member For: 13y 6m 22d Gender: Male Posted 21/07/14 07:26 AM Share Posted 21/07/14 07:26 AM Live tuning is awesome....if I had the tech skills to link the CAN bus into a Haltec Elite I would do it. There's a few things the ford system won't do that is frustrating.So I put a new pump in my $hitbox BA and took the check valve out. Car was then horrible on cold starts. Put a new rail / injectors / reg in yesterday as well as a check valve. Car starts good again. In short....I like check valves especially when dealing with e85.Something I said before. Check valves made my cold start PERFECT but others didn't wanna believe me.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaz097 Bronze Donating Members 1,752 Member For: 13y 7m 11d Posted 21/07/14 08:51 AM Share Posted 21/07/14 08:51 AM A little off topic but I have just switched to e85 so it may be the culprit. When driving along then shift into neutral or even if I push the clutch in the revs come down as normal but then then drop very low very quickly, to the point where it stalled on me this morning. When the car is idling it's fine and even a free rev it's fine.(cold starting well so far) Cleaned the throttle body out but didn't help. Any pointers? Heading to see my tuner this arvo as only just got a retune Friday with the five-o injectors I posted ages ago. Also fitted a surge tank and fpr1200, so have a fair bit of new stuff happening at the moment.Sorted. Lifted idle by 75 rpm and it's like a totally different car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaz097 Bronze Donating Members 1,752 Member For: 13y 7m 11d Posted 22/07/14 07:29 AM Share Posted 22/07/14 07:29 AM Next question. Does e85 produce more white smoke/steam in cold starts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nelsonian101 Donating Members 961 Member For: 16y 8m 7d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 25/07/14 10:20 PM Share Posted 25/07/14 10:20 PM Yes, the ethanol content in E85 will attract water molecules and will produce more white water vapour on start up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nelsonian101 Donating Members 961 Member For: 16y 8m 7d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 25/07/14 10:26 PM Share Posted 25/07/14 10:26 PM What other precautionary measures should I take for running long term E70/E85 in a daily driven car?I've done 252,000kms so far and atleast 120,000kms on Eflex/unitede85.Plan on keeping the car for another 100,000kms at least.I used to run the occasional 98 tune with a tank of unleaded 98 petrol, but have been getting slack recently.All fuel lines have been replaced with Eflex hoses.I change fuel filter regularly and run a fuel system cleaner additive to the fuel once a year.Will long term use of water attracting E85 cause any extra damage to engine/cat or anything else I should look out for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaz097 Bronze Donating Members 1,752 Member For: 13y 7m 11d Posted 25/07/14 11:57 PM Share Posted 25/07/14 11:57 PM Yes, the ethanol content in E85 will attract water molecules and will produce more white water vapour on start up.Was my assumption, but wanted to clarify Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeGe6 Donating Members 1,978 Member For: 12y 7m 25d Gender: Male Location: Perth, SOR Posted 26/07/14 05:35 AM Share Posted 26/07/14 05:35 AM In general what are tuners on the East coast recommending for E85 set up, when upgrading to 3582r? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyP MattyP Cruise Control 6,317 Member For: 12y 10m Gender: Male Location: Central Coast Posted 26/07/14 06:29 AM Share Posted 26/07/14 06:29 AM 460 with reg in tank I find is the go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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