Spark Plugs

[Skeeve]

Is the ethanol harder to ignite?

 

Easier: alcohol vaporizes more readily than the other, heavier petroleum distillates making up gasoline. But it's hygroscopic (absorbs water from the air) so you get water in the fuel [esp. bad for carb'ed vehicles], and burns cooler [so you get less energy from it, reducing mileage/km per l and other issues, like it eats neoprene, altho' nowhere near as badly as methanol [which has even worse attributes than ethanol as far as safety.]

 

O.K., chemistry lecture over! Go out & ride!

[docc]

Seems like these fuels would be predetonating easier. I'm guessing they are using some kind of anti-knock agent to deter this.

 

Good point about the water. This is not going to be good gas to use in my GB500 that sits most of the time. I wonder if Stabil will still be ass effective?