E85 And Flex Locations Act

[Manuel Kasko]

Up to date details guys.

Just wondering where they are located.

Shell could you sticky this as it seems to be something a lot of people are starting to get into.

Also saves me going through all the old threads.

Going to be getting a tune on it if my tax pays off.

[TiTAN]

Nicholls caltex, just off the barton highway

another southside somewhere.

it is not a practical solution in canberra yet as there's only 2 pumps

[Randon_I_Am]

As steve said, not too practical. The one on the southside is the caltex on drakeford dr in kambah, closest to greenway. Ie not the one at kambah village.

[Mitcho_7]

Maybe email caltex and see if they plan to increase eflex availability in Canberra anytime soon?

[Manuel Kasko]

Maybe email caltex and see if they plan to increase eflex availability in Canberra anytime soon?

Might flick them off something this afternoon.

Nicholls caltex, just off the barton highway

another southside somewhere.

it is not a practical solution in canberra yet as there's only 2 pumps

Okay so certainly on two pumps in Canberra?

[Trozzle]

Yeah as has been said, Nicholls and Kambah (near the highschool).

WTB United in Fyshwick pumping e85. That would be f**king awesome!

[Manuel Kasko]

That would be good!

Could detour there on my way home.

Kambah isn't to far from me so it wouldnt bother me. Could always get a drum anyways

[Mitcho_7]

Did you end up calling/emailing caltex about it?

[Manuel Kasko]

Had a 3 hour bath instead haha and whored wasteland

[Mitcho_7]

Had a 3 hour bath instead haha and whored wasteland

3 hours marinating in your own filth, how lovely...

I'll ring them Monday I think

[Sinista32]

A search on E85 Locations comes up

ACT:

Nicholls

Curran Dr, Cnr o'Hanlon Pl

Tuggeranong

150 O'Halloran Circuit

ONLY

[Mitcho_7]

yeh, we know those 2, but I want to find out if they plan to expand eflex availabiliuty to more than just 2 stations in the ACT in the near future.

Otherwise, its not really practical for the time being...

[Amaru]

E85 is only available at *non* woolworths Caltex outlets - Nicholls and one of the 2 in Kambah are the only non Woolworths branded ones in Canberra.

No plans for introduction at Woolworths Caltex outlets any time soon (an immediate family works in the Woolworths head office in Sydney).

Edit: and before anyone asks, Woolworths Caltex branded outlets are *not* Caltex, so ringing them wont help much - they are Woolworths Petrol with the fuel supplied by Caltex. Woolworths Petrol has no plans at the moment to introduce E85.

The "Star Mart" branded outlets are the Caltex owned/franchised shops and are the only ones that will stock E85 - aside from the 2 listed above, there are no other Caltex owned/franchises outlets in Canberra.

Edited July 7, 2012 by Amaru

[Manuel Kasko]

Very nice info

Is Caltex are the only people that supply ethanol fuel? Or is there other places in ACT that might get it

[Amaru]

AFAIK, only Caltex (non Woolworths) and United do E85 currently. There's, in general, no market for it apart from people retuning.

[Mitcho_7]

then wmi it is!

[Manuel Kasko]

Mitch sum up the prices for me because I'm a lazy prick!

Do you think 555's could handle around 300kw

On a WMI setup?

Kit?

Tune = $600 i guess?

Labour =$200-300?

[TiTAN]

wmi has no effect on your injector size, same size injectors you would run for what ever power it is on normal 98 as thats all you put in the tank.

good wmi kit 400-600, you then need to source your methanol and distilled/demineralised water, its not a complete retune its only a partial retune anywhere on the map after the WMI has turned on as thats the only place that will have any changes

for extra go fast you can mix in small amounts of nitromethane as well

[Manuel Kasko]

Sounds some what cheaper then?

You can just run distilled water right without the meth it just doesn't have the greatest effect

[Mitcho_7]

You can get 20l drums of methanol for like $70 from a few places locally, which will last a fair while with street driving.

Distilled water is cheap as from any supermarket cleaning isle as well.

Kit will cost like 500-1000 depending on the setup you choose, but you should be able to put in yourself.

It's much of a muchness in cost difference I think, because setup/tuning costs are relatively similar and although eflex is cheaper, you can't go as far on a single tank. So that helps even the cost difference there as well.

You can always sell the kit and go e85 down the track if it becomes more widely available anyway...