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[Boone]

Brazil has been doing sugarcane ethanol for over 3 decades, so no surprise it is readily available in your area. What are the Porsche GT4s running and what is the cost? You do seem to run some longer races and do you have a fuel cell now, because burning the alcohol off like a drunk in Vegas could mean you have fuel starvation with the El Crappo saddleback tank. I know it is a convenient trend and motors run cool, but if you are going to do some Enduros or if races tend to run 35-50 minutes , not sure I see any advantage in the long run.

 

[Mad Hatter]

Yup looking for help from Scotty! I have my stock tanks still and was using a 50L fuel cell with a pump and switch to top them up in the longer enduros.... If we ever run those again. Fuel consumption was probably one of the biggest issues for me... I am guessing that running E85 would mean 3/4 of a tank to run 25min

 

[Fabman]

Brazil has been doing sugarcane ethanol for over 3 decades, so no surprise it is readily available in your area. What are the Porsche GT4s running and what is the cost? You do seem to run some longer races and do you have a fuel cell now, because burning the alcohol off like a drunk in Vegas could mean you have fuel starvation with the El Crappo saddleback tank. I know it is a convenient trend and motors run cool, but if you are going to do some Enduros or if races tend to run 35-50 minutes , not sure I see any advantage in the long run.

Good point.

Yup looking for help from Scotty! I have my stock tanks still and was using a 50L fuel cell with a pump and switch to top them up in the longer enduros.... If we ever run those again. Fuel consumption was probably one of the biggest issues for me... I am guessing that running E85 would mean 3/4 of a tank to run 25min

Installing a cell is pretty easy fab wise.

 

[Mad Hatter]

I have been having issues with the 98 octane race gas we have, think it has a lot MMT and the quality seems to vary a lot....

 

[Fabman]

Yup looking for help from Scotty! I have my stock tanks still and was using a 50L fuel cell with a pump and switch to top them up in the longer enduros.... If we ever run those again. Fuel consumption was probably one of the biggest issues for me... I am guessing that running E85 would mean 3/4 of a tank to run 25min

I get about 30 min green flag racing on 15 gallons of e85.

 

[Mad Hatter]

That sounds about right then... For a 1 hour stint will have to look at a piggy back tank again.

 

[Fabman]

That sounds about right then... For a 1 hour stint will have to look at a piggy back tank again.

Just put a cell in there.

 

[Mad Hatter]

I would, its just that my car is still road legal.... (barely). I think taking out the saddle tanks would be the last straw.

 

[Bill Pemberton]

But so worth it -------no starvation in big sweepers and the ability to run longer races. But after losing races due to fuel pick up, once the cell was in there she rocked even better.

Crazy, though the Mach 1 is better , surprisingly, at fuel pickup , I still keep that saddleback turd tank at 1/2 full to start. Just a bit under 1/4, at one track I run, and she coughs and wheezes.

 

[Mad Hatter]

Well, the Boss has been dormant for a while now. The racing series that I helped set up has gone and asked for prepayment of the 8 races of the season. If you break down or can't make it, you still have to pay, its only about US$350 a race... But it just goes against the grain. So screw that. Surprise, surprise, now its mainly a Porsche series with just a few cars.

So going back to the smaller tracks and see if we can't get some budget racing going again.

Have a sneaky false knock that's holding up my switch to E85, but getting that fixed will be already to go. LU47 injectors installed and in need to log the e85 for a final track tune.
Will have to remove the passenger side header and see what we can do with it knocking on the starter motor.

 

[Fabman]

Well, the Boss has been dormant for a while now. The racing series that I helped set up has gone and asked for prepayment of the 8 races of the season. If you break down or can't make it, you still have to pay, its only about US$350 a race... But it just goes against the grain. So screw that. Surprise, surprise, now its mainly a Porsche series with just a few cars.

So going back to the smaller tracks and see if we can't get some budget racing going again.

Have a sneaky false knock that's holding up my switch to E85, but getting that fixed will be already to go. LU47 injectors installed and in need to log the e85 for a final track tune.
Will have to remove the passenger side header and see what we can do with it knocking on the starter motor.

 

[Coz]

The racing series that I helped set up has gone and asked for prepayment of the 8 races of the season

Sounds like the old "If it ain't broke fix it until it is"

Sorry to hear that. Good luck in your new series. But I'll miss the enthusiastic commentators. And podium girls.

 

[Bill Pemberton]

You are in the right to give them a chilly reception in Chile. What a dumb concept and it could like doom the series altogether! That might be just the ticket, after a year of low racing numbers they may realize it was a pretty good race series as originally set up.