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lutch will max out at 300 anyways.

So only wanted to get about 280-285

My gearbox has been out 3 times already so I'm not too keen to go down the slippery slope of upgrade after upgrade

You don't need to upgrade injectors for that power goal.

scotty seems to think everyone wants over 9000 killer wasps

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Washable stainless filters are not fine enough, the dreaded black gunk seems fine enough to get through them and clog the injectors. I was recommended to install 10 micron paper elements to guarantee it would catch the black crap present in e85. (I assume from the manufacture of the fuel.) Moran refuse to warrant their injectors without a similar filter fitted in the fuel line...

E85 is a great cleaning solution and should flush any varnish buildup through, but this can block the filter internal to the injector, which in the EV14's is nearly impossible to clean.

wait, what? gunk in E85 from the manufacturer? (I thought it might happen if petrol stations filled ULP tanks with E85 without cleaning the tank first).

Is this a common problem or isolated?

Common, it builds up over time and circulates your fuel system, building up in the injector filter eventually. (Which is deep inside the injector on the ev14's.) For some reason my fuel system has been fine for years, but I have replaced 3 sets of ID's for customers due to this black crap recently.

I have a feeling it is from the carbon filtering of the ethanol during production. It does look a lot like carbon silt.

Currently running my rb20 on e85. Using a bosch 040 intank pump, all lines are speedflow series 200 hose (teflon), with tomei fuel reg, aeroflow inline fuel filter, standard fuel rail, and 565cc hks injectors. Making 266kw/357 hp, and mine doesn't chew through fuel like that at all.. Dyno graph in the rb20 dyno result thread

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Nah easy. I just carry a laptop with a 98 tune on it in case I have to stop for 98. It never fusses over a few litres of E85 left in the tank, and vice versa.

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