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Old 04-28-2010, 08:18 AM   #10
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If they have ethanol in it, your car shouldn't be detonating just due to the fact that ethanol has a much higher tolerance to not detonating.

Your gas mileage will suffer a little, but you shouldn't be blowing anything up.
That is not necessarily true.

Because when you DO tune for ethanol, from a volumetric standpoint, you need to inject MORE of it than gasoline....

So, actually, I would expect running 10% ethanol gasoline to maybe cause problems.
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