[elky] Ethanol - E15 [was: Race car (Monte Carlo)]

From: John Christensen <johncgg@xxxxxxxxx>
To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 05:12:02 -0500
The alcohol thing really scares me. I have a feeling it's already creeping
up in percentages here, or the gas is just getting worse. I am now getting a
lean signal, and I have never gotten that before. In sent some WinALDL files
to Robert, in hopes that we can figure out a solution. Right now, I it
doesn't run very well, and I can't drive it without a light. I adjusted the
TPS to .47V at idle. It was .61V. I am also wondering if the timing is just
off. It's a by ear only setting, and I may play with that today a little
bit. I advance it till I get a ping, then back it off till it goes away.
This engine has never run with the brown wire unplugged to set initial
timing (can't figure out why, unless it is compression/cam tolerance being
on the ragged edge with Fuel injection). I also need to set the lifters,
because I hear some ticking on the driver's side. That alone may be some of
the hesitation, if there is misfiring, but it's always been a gray area in
my head, setting the valves just right. I haven't touched them since 2007.


Besides the Power steering leak..... on hold till I get the Monte Heads
swapped. The rebuilt heads are all painted and sitting in the garage.

Brother Jim may be coming up from Des Moines, Via Waterloo to pick up Mom.
Jim D., if you want to join the party let me know, although sleeping room
would be a couch at best. They plan to come up Friday night, and leave
Sunday morning. We will probably be working on the car Saturday Early.

The Monte is smoking really bad, and runs terrible till warmed up. Then it
runs GREAT. So I thing the fresh heads will do the trick. It's a driver, not
a racer, so I am sure that the bottom end (4 bolt 350 Mexico 1990 something)
will last through another couple winters.

I think the flap in the heater that drains the water out is plugged. I had
some water leaking inside when it rained the other day. At least the sunroof
is sealed now. Got to get the roof rail window seals for next winter.

JC
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John Christensen
1984 El Camino "Elkenstein" 350 TBI
NECOA #042 http://www.myelcamino.net
Saint Charles, IL
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John Christensen
1984 El Camino "Elkenstein" 350 TBI
NECOA #042 http://www.myelcamino.net
Saint Charles, IL



On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Swish!  Strikeout!  I got the space saver spare from JC today as well as
> the studs for the carb linkage.  I tossed the wheel and the moon discs in
> the back of the Burb and went back to the place that said they had one
> wheel...it was more than I wanted to pay at the time, so I left it there.
> Well, I went back and they pulled it out and damned if it wasn't for a fwd
> car.  The backspacing is ALL wrong.  The Moon disc won't even clear the
> center section of the wheel.  So it was junkyard crawling all afternoon.
>
> All I came home with was very muddy shoes and a backache.  But one guy who
> said, "Are you Ray the Rat?  I've heard of you." (I denied everything...it's
> all lies) offered to do some moving of cars with the forklift to see if he
> can find one.  He (as opposed to the other people I dealt with) knows what I
> need.  So we'll see how that goes.  This evening I may try putting on a
> different pair of shoes (the ones I wore today are soakin wet from scrubbin
> the mud off 'em) and attempting to finalize the connection to the carburetor
> with the cable studs.  It'd be very nice to be able to say that one thing's
> finished.
>
> Btw...and this is totally off topic...Ferg on the Nova list (some folks may
> know him) just bought a new Chevy C3500 dually truck.  He was advised to run
> "TOP TIER Detergent Gasoline" in it.  Here's a link to a kinda technical
> write-up:
> http://www.toptiergas.com/deposit_control.html and on one of the pages it
> lists brands that manufacture this high-zoot gas.
>
> The kicker is that it sets a standard of 8-10 percent alcohol.  No E-15
> stuff.  I dunno how this is gonna work out with the gummint and oil
> companies and their new "corn-flavored" gas.  I agree with something Jared
> said the other day: "I don't want 'em burning our food."  If they can make
> ethanol outta sawgrass or other non-comestible substances (pond sludge,
> garbage, whatever) then fine.  But cuttin into the crops that we AND our
> livestock eat is the wrong answer.
>
> Enuff sed.
>
> r
>
>
>
> On 3/14/2011 11:39 AM, Jim Dos wrote:
>
>  I’m looking forward to when I don’t have ice, frost, snow etc on the car
> in the early AM.
>
>
>
>
[elky] Ethanol - E15 [was: Race car (Monte Carlo)]

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