E85 / Flex Fuel on the Subaru WRX: One Year of Daily Driving Experience

0:00second here oh, oh

0:45I, now I was like around a 20, and I was like half way, because it filled up the

0:50Car all the way, about seven gallons of

0:54so and

0:56Definitely what I like to do that I do have a flex

0:59sensor so

1:01there just is oll that stuff on the fly your your tuner will definitely take care of that too, but um

1:20juice so right now it says, I'm at e16

1:53And my experience with a five has been great

1:57for the most. There was one time where the

2:00the

2:01Car when the car when I was driving to LA. I was about a 400 something 400 whatever Sacramento LA

2:10My, 85 was kind ofmit a low and, and there was very little a little gas.

2:13And it started to stutter a little bit I

2:45Kind of addicting to have it, because if I don't have 85

2:49Let's just say

3:1785 and maybe not do the whole stage two thing because it was like

3:22The first time I really, notice a bump in power performance

3:26Like the performance was like so much better. So like going stage zero or stock to the stage one

3:32Yeah, I noticed it the shifting was a little bit cleaner and like the power is a little bit better-

3:36I go on a stage two and then

3:47And it was like, what I wanted. So definitely if you guys were looking for more power

3:56You have to get the ethanol, it's the go-to

4:00So right now like my WRX my aXS port is still saying that I'm still running at e16, so I'm still keeping it kind of chill right now.

4:10So yeah, ethanol

4:26Besides that one time I had to hold like a year and a half I had this for in about a year and four-months

4:30There was only one hick up up and it's because I had a really long

4:33Road trip and I was a little bit low the daily commute and stuff like that which I drive about 20 miles every day no issues. It's great

4:44Stock clutch

4:45Has been great, it's been holding up

4:47For for those who are curious about what my my mods are I'm basically turbo backed

4:55With ethanol

4:57andi tuned with

5:00What's his name, name Ron Watson so the link is description below Ron Watson is

5:04Probably the one

5:06The best tuners and the thing is when you're running E85 you definitely want to have a really good

5:10In order because you get a lot of power but you put too much power

5:14Down low

5:15I'm low

5:16Rpms you might better run

5:19He definitely pushes. He pushes the power up to close to the top and keeps the, and keeps it a very reliable and safe because like I said

5:25I've running stock internals and everything

5:28The clutch and stuff like that and the power it's still, it's still there. My ethanol has it has rise to

5:35From E17 E 16 to now it's climbing to what E46 so now I'm actually

5:43Having about it took about like see it took about five minutes for it to have that mixture

5:59so my E48 right now I'm tuned for E50 you can go E60 E there's like that but from what my tuner there said the the performance is like not that much much and it's you run into that friction issue

6:12for the 4

6:17E48 which is probably you know is my estimate I was trying to get that kind of like E

6:2349 E50 and it might climb up a little bit in my but it's stabilizing around if you

6:28basically E50 and right now it's 40 e 49.2 which is great

6:35But yeah, yeah, um I could do a poll I havees I have a Q 300 and and it sounds great I

6:45Have the boom but bypass with the Cobb SF intake, so nice makes a nice wishing sound. I

6:53Just the Senate just like six set up so very very nice setup here going on

7:03See what these

7:10So we'll do a Pult or a second your pull real quick

7:13About 3,000 rpm on my role into a throttle and accelerate and up to

7:26Can you like can you feel the difference

7:34Feeling your chest regular stage 2

7:3791 if you go ethanol

7:41There's a like you're just gonna you're gonna like just want it

7:44and you just always want to fill up with a hole and for my experience you do get less mpg

7:49but it kind of makes up for it because

7:5385 it 85. E85 is a lot cheaper so

7:56gas around California second month this time it was about three dollars and fifty cents

8:00I just filled it up cost two $2 and fifty cents so so

8:04So it's usually a dollar cheaper so yeah, you're be going to the fuel station

8:09more

8:41

8:42So I hope you guys enjoy that video about what ethanol is and a

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