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Originally Posted by Redog
You can't run E85 in most cars on the road, including the Alero.
E85 will eat away all the gaskets, and in metals inside the motor (and gas tanks on older cars with metal gas tanks)
Of course this will not happen on one tank full, but it also won't take long to happen. The was a write-up about it in one of the car mags, I think it was Hot Rod, but I'm not sure
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Cars after 1988 are built to handle ethanol blended fuels. It's not going to eat away at your gaskets, and metals inside the motor.
E85 when trying to run it on an alero or most any other car, you have to recalibrate the PCM to run w/ it. Basically, retuning, hptuners does a great job of this. Since it has already been discussed you have to dump more of it, and it does have less bang per squirt, you have to dump even more fuel. Larger injectors come into play. I already got into an argument on gagt.com over this, people keep on saying the car won't run it. Recalibrate for larger and injectors, and E85 mixture through retuning and you'll end up with a car that you can add quite a bit of timing and make some nice power gains from it. Another side note, is that you should change your fuel filter after a couple tanks of the stuff, because it cleans out the varnishing in your fuel system. There's quite a few websites of people converting later model cars.
I'm always at a local shop here where I work on my ride at. We have converted most of the cars over to E85, such as an Evo, Datsun, 2 240sx's w/ sr20det swaps... amongst other randomness. Some of the cars have been runing E85 for over 6 months with no adverse effects. The biggest pain was just spending money on fuel injectors, and time on the dyno for tuning.
Of course some cars need a few extra things here and there, but I'm not giving a how to convert. It however isn't going to make your motor eat itself from the inside out, and isn't as horrifically deadly as some people are reading on the internet.