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What is the best option for side feed injectors that are e85 friendly? Reluctant to convert to top feed at this stage

My car just turned 18 so can legally drink alcohol now

I thought you were selling your car Ric?

There are a few reasons not to go E85...

The need for Jerrycans is one of the major ones since not a lot of regional centres have any E85 at all, so driving to Winton or DECA will use nearly a tank, then the track day, then the drive home...

I do 300+ peak hour km's each week in my car, I could easily switch to E85 (My pump can handle it, and my injectors are 550's... might need an upsize if I want to keep some decent overhead, I pass a few petrol stations with it each day), but its still the hassle of country trips which suck.

I'll do it in the future, but for now, I'm sticking to BP98

Haha yeah

I haven't got Flex fuel tune at the moment, so any long road trips I need to look at e85 stations.

Wifey prob thinks Im a weirdo carrying a jerry can everytime we go somewhere far

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I thought you were selling your car Ric?

Haha yeah

I haven't got Flex fuel tune at the moment, so any long road trips I need to look at e85 stations.

Wifey prob thinks Im a weirdo carrying a jerry can everytime we go somewhere far

I'm expecting to love it too much to sell it when I get it back all shiny and new. Driving a rental corolla atm and not having powah is driving me mental haha

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What is the best option for side feed injectors that are e85 friendly? Reluctant to convert to top feed at this stage

My car just turned 18 so can legally drink alcohol now

There are only two e85 compatible injectors on the market I could recommend, ID1300 and Xspurt 1400. Both are 14mm top feed. Other sizes seem to handle it, like the other Bosch sourced Xspurts, but they weren't designed for long term ethanol use.

I can supply up to 550cc in sidefeed injectors, anything larger is generally a drilled highflow. (with the exception of Nismo 750's I think) You can generally buy a top feed conversion kit and the 14mm injectors cheaper than a set of sidefeeds too.

Top feed is an easy conversion, there are plenty of kits available to swap to top feeds on the RB25, and the RB25 Neo engine comes with them stock so it doesn't look out of place. A few have used the Neo rail on the older engine to keep the stock look.

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Shit excuse, Simon. E85 conversion need not be permanent.

I've done the country trip on ethanol before, you just need to fill back up with 98 when the tank gets below 10 litres and switch to your heartily rich 98 tune that will run it fine.

As for DECA, if I wanted to do it I'd just switch back to 98 and drive up there on that, then do the event on that. If I wanted to do it on ethanol, it would take a little planning but I'd drive up on 98 with a couple gerrys of ethanol and swap it in when the 98 was low enough. Then same as above when coming home and stopped at a servo with 98.

What is the best option for side feed injectors that are e85 friendly? Reluctant to convert to top feed at this stage

My car just turned 18 so can legally drink alcohol now

Adding to Scotty's post, I've never had an issue with my Nismo 555s.

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I remember reading a post that Trent made when he was first getting serious about Flex tuning and he was saying that it was taking 2-3 full tanks before the sensor was actually reading anything close to the pure/drained tank E85 figures.

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I remember reading a post that Trent made when he was first getting serious about Flex tuning and he was saying that it was taking 2-3 full tanks before the sensor was actually reading anything close to the pure/drained tank E85 figures.

This is true, but a good tuner won't be knife edging it to a certain percentage and you'll have no issues switching from <10 litres of 98 and vice versa. There's plenty of tolerance in a good tune, enough that I've been able to give my car stick after switching without issue. So my E85 tune isn't radical up top, but I still have an extra 40rwkw in the midrange to muck around with.

Some of the guys in the ethanol thread tried to tell me that my E85 tuned engine was going to detonate from accidentally copping a tank of 70% lol

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