Corvette Fuel

hotrod.com on E85   

• Ethyl Alcohol - thanol-the fuel distilled from corn instead of crude oil
• E85, the most common of the ethanol fuel blends, is actually three fuel grades. all three classes of fuel may be marketed as E85 at various times during the year, done mainly to offer better cold-starting performance. Since straight ethanol has a relatively low Reid vapor pressure (meaning it doesn’t like to light off at low temperatures), greater percentages of gasoline are added to the blend for colder weather
  • Class 1 or “pure” E85 contains 80 to 84 percent ethanol, while the remainder of the blend is commercial-grade (around 85 pump octane) gasoline. [~105 octane]
  • Class 2 or E75 is 75 to 79 percent ethanol,
  • while Class 3 or E70 is 70 to 74 percent ethanol.  [~100 octane]
  • Wikipedia Alcohol Fuel page claims [pure, non-E85] ethanol has 109 RON (Research Octane Number), 90 MON (Motor Octane Number), (which equates to 99.5 AKI)
  • another hotrod.com article claims "Straight ethanol has an AKI rating of 113-115. E85 is generally rated at between 100 and 105, depending upon the manufacturer"
• Octane calculation
• (R+M)/2 = AKI = Anti Knock Index     R = research octane (RON)     M = motor octane (MON)
• research octane of ethanol is impressively high, a beautiful thing for high-compression and high-boost applications, making it highly resistant to knock
• motor octane (the more extreme standard) is relatively low when compared to racing gasolines of similar (R+M)/2 octane; making it somewhat sensitive to preignition
• Knock is spontaneous combustion in the end gases before the flame-front can arrive, while preignition takes place before the timed ignition spark occurs, typically due to localized incandescence or hot spots in the combustion chamber.
• Tuning
  • Step down one to two heat ranges cooler on the spark plugs, and watch for other potential hot spots such as sharp edges on the piston domes and chambers
  • Need more fuel, in the range of 25 percent
  • Once you’ve recalibrated your fuel system for ethanol, you’re committed to ethanol until you change the calibration back again
  • The stoichiometric (chemically ideal) air/fuel mixture ratio for gasoline is approximately 14.7:1, with ethanol it is around 9.79:1;  In carbureted applications you will usually need higher-flowing metering blocks calibrated for E85
  • Ethanol can be downright unfriendly to some traditional fuel-system materials-cork, for example; gaskets, seals, and hoses will need to be updated to ethanol-compatible materials
    • aluminum fuel lines must be fabricated from standard anodized tubing
    • ethanol presents no hazard whatsoever to oxygen sensors and catalytic converters
• Results
• When tuned properly E85 will make at least as much power as gasoline of comparable octane, and often a little more
• E85 has a much greater latent heat of vaporization than gasoline, cooling the intake charge and thus increasing its air density-rather like intercooling or water-alcohol injection
  • On some engines the resulting power increase could be as much as 5 percent
• With a pump octane of 105 instead of 87 to 94, you can run more compression, more boost, and more spark advance without damaging the engine with knock, and make more power

 

From The Pump

• Chardon Oil in Chardon
  beginning to Mid April switch over from heating oil to racing fuel  - switched back prior to 2016-10-29
  Sunoco Standard Purple 110
  5 gallon pail 56.00 inc tax
  440-285-7711
  Sunoco Standard Cam II Purple 110 "Pump Octane 110 Motor Octane 105"     Sunoco Racing Fuel finder
  
  
  
• Chardon Oil Painesville
  1590 West Jackson St  - 38  mins from house
  beginning to Mid April switch over from heating oil to racing fuel - switched back prior to 2016-10-29
  440-357-6762
  Sunoco Standard Cam II Purple 110 "Pump Octane 110 Motor Octane 105"
  
  
• Chagrin Oil & Gas Middlefield
  15385 Old State Road
  440-632-1501 440-247-7551
  they switched over to heating oil prior to 2016-10-23
  Turbo Blue 110
  
  
• Speedway
  35066 Center Ridge Rd, North Ridgeville, OH 44039  - 50 mins from house
  speedway.com
  (440) 327-2091
  in pump for $7.49 is 110 octane, she doesn't know brand, SOLD YEAR ROUND
  
  
• BP
  2257 Wadsworth Akron Rd, Norton, OH 44203
  bp.com
  (330) 745-8552
  $8.99 pump 110 octane they did have it 2016-10-23
  56 mins from house
  
  
• Turbo Blue Locator    
  
  • Country Pantry Gulf Akron Canfield Road Canfield Ohio 44406 330.533.4191 [45 miles east of Akron, 5 miles southwest of Youngstown]
  • Lodi Sunoco 741 Bank Street Lodi Ohio 44254 [30 miles east of Akron, a couple miles off I71]
  • Jiffy Mini Mart North Main Steet Butler Pennsylvania 16001 724.282.0066
  • Lictus Keystone West Main Street Clymer New York 14724 716.355.6363 http://www.lictusoilpropane.com
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Unverified others per Sunoco Race Fuels search within 100 miles, any type of racing fuel   the search

• Thompson Raceway Park 8233 Sidley Road Thompson, OH 44086 17.3 mi.
• Russ King Racing, LLC 1306 Greenville Road NW Bristolville, OH 44402 21.3 mi.
• B and B Automotive Machine 717 West Market Street Warren, OH 44481 26.8 mi.
• Pearl Road Sunoco 7606 Pearl Road Middleburg Heights, OH 44130 30.4 mi.
• Sunoco, 871 Rock River Drive, Inc. 871 North Rocky River Drive Berea, OH 44017 31.9 mi.
• Sharon Speedway 3301 Custer-Orangeville Road Northeast Burghill, OH 44404 37 mi.
• Knack's Sunoco 5655 Manchester Road Akron, OH 44319 39.1 mi.
• Circle K 36024 Royalton Road Grafton, OH 44044 41.5 mi.
• Raceway 7 4094 Center Road Conneaut, OH 44030 43.4 mi.
• Salem Petroleum, LLC 445 Prospect Street Salem, OH 44460 43.9 mi.
• Speedway Store #3385 35066 Center Ridge Road North Ridgeville, OH 44039 45.5 mi.
• Beaver Petroleum 1507 Waynesburg Drive Canton, OH 44707 47.2 mi.
• Bricker Automotive 7524 State Route 45 Lisbon, OH 44432 52.4 mi.
• Mercer Raceway Park 555 Fairground Road Mercer, PA 16137 54.9 mi.
• RF Mercer, Co. 3243 US 422 East New Castle, PA 16101 61.2 mi.
• Pittsburgh International Race Complex 201 Penndale Road Wampum, PA 16157 61.9 mi.
• Klasen McQuiston Energy Corporation 2988 Old Highway 322 Cochranton, PA 16314 62.8 mi.
• Big Daddy's Speed Shop 139 Gasper Road Grove City, PA 16127 63 mi.
• Bausch's Service Station 201 Venango Avenue Cambridge Springs, PA 16403 65.7 mi.
• Summit Racing Motorsports Park 1300 State Route 18 Norwalk, OH 44857 69.3 mi.
• Hilltop Speedway 2927 County Road 150 Millersburg, OH 44654 71.7 mi.
• Speedway Store #3667 5902 Milan Road Sandusky, OH 44870 73.1 mi.
• Sandusky Speedway 614 West Perkins Avenue Sandusky, OH 44870 75.8 mi.
• Eriez Speedway 9821 Sampson Road Erie, PA 16504 77 mi.
• Riley Petroleum Products, LLC 128 Technology Way Steubenville, OH 43953 78.4 mi.
• Lernerville Speedway 313 North Pike Road Sarver, PA 16055 87.7 mi.
• Speedway Store #3535 838 State Route 97 West Bellville, OH 44813 88 mi.
• Kwik King Food Stores 118 South Fourth Street Toronto, OH 43964 88.7 mi.
• Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course 7721 Steam Corners Road Lexington, OH 44904 89.9 mi.
• Applebee Motor Sports 8029 NY 474 Clymer, NY 14724 90.7 mi.
• Quick Time Performance 109 Marakatan Street Flushing, OH 43977 92.1 mi.
• Hoosier Tire Mid-Atlantic, Precise Racing Products 110 South Pike Road, #207 Sarver, PA 16055 93.2 mi.
• Fredericktown Marathon 17391 Zolman Road Fredericktown, OH 43019 95.5 mi.
• Pacemakers Dragway Park 8924 Columbus Road Mount Vernon, OH 43050 100.8 mi.

Probably cans only

• MotoSports MD in Medina, hours listed are 10AM-9PM sunday... number is 440-724-0618
  They sell VP Race gas.
  didn't call
  56 mins
• Jawzy's Powersports always has a stock of Renegade Fuel. We are in Brunswick right off 71. 330-273-6161
  P98
  SX4
  SX2
  53 mins didn't call
• We carry VP at Kames in North Canton
  1:13 didn't call
• Blanchester [NE of cincinatti] close to Dirt Country and also in Lebanon [NE of cincinatti]
  didn't call
• Circle K in Eaton (at the intersection of Rte 82 and Rte 83) has 110 Octane racing fuel for $7.999 / Gallon
  west of dayton didn't call
• http://breyleyyamaha.com/Hours-Location
  Breyley Yamaha
  11035 State Road North Royalton OH 44133
  Phone: (440) 237-4543
  40 mins
  normally have vp fuel but were out 2016-10-23
• Custom Powersports in Chillicothe is a VP dealer.
  South of Columbus
• Pro Car Associates in Akron
  1100 Triplett Blvd, Akron, OH 44306
  procarassociates.com
  (330) 773-0341
  vp 110 9.75gal 8-5 sat
  52 mins

last updated:    Sat 2020-12-19 6:50 PM