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scotty nm35 Grand Master

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Is that list only the Caltex outlets? There are a lot more than that in Victoria anyway.

BP and Shell have a vested interest in oil production, I believe they will never supply ethanol unless mandated by the government.

Perhaps we should also ask why we can only run e85, why not e100 with an additive to stop consumption? That way there would be no legitimate reason to follow the petrol pricing structure... We need a lobby group.

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34GeeTeeTee Grand Master

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For the SAU Newcastle guys we have -

Caltex - Swansea

Caltex - Charlestown

Caltex - Hamilton

Which isnt bad considering the Central Coast only has Caltex - West Gosford so far.....

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34GeeTeeTee Grand Master

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curious to see the consistency of their product. Be a shame to destroy a race engine from detonation from a sub quality blend. I'll be sticking to the 200L drums from CSR for a while.

My car is dead with bad E85 now, but i would put it down to a storage issue i think... Was off the pump, into a 200l drum and then into the car a fair while later... Ill pump it all out and replace it with decent pump 85 and should be fine...

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scotty nm35 Grand Master

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curious to see the consistency of their product. Be a shame to destroy a race engine from detonation from a sub quality blend. I'll be sticking to the 200L drums from CSR for a while.

Lol, detonation? Are you kidding?

My stock VQ25 was given a hiding at PI last weekend, The GTX 3076 overboosting to 2.7 bar until I dropped it back to 1.8. Never a sign of det and the exhaust temps were fine as the engine is tuned to over 3 bar. Pump United ftw.

Better keep paying $5 a litre... You don't know what that 96c pump fuel will do... :)

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34GeeTeeTee Grand Master

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You down to 96c :( basterd!

I was surprised, i filled up at Newcastle at $1.09 which i thought was awesome, 3hrs later i filled up again at Casula and it was $1.19........What a rip!

2.7bar :woot:

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BP and Shell have a vested interest in oil production, I believe they will never supply ethanol unless mandated by the government.

And the fact it simply isn't a big money maker. They make more out of normal petrol...

Also there is only really one Ethanol provider in Aus (there are two, but one took a big hit during the QLD floods etc).

So no way Shell/BP are going to let their business pricing and model be dictated by a single other entity. They've said this for a few years, and don't expect it to change anytime soon.

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$2.50/litre in the 200L drum. I'm comfortable paying that for the moment for some piece of mind.

once i install one of those ethanol meters in the car i might change my mind.

also...for the big events they often will deliver the 200L to the track for you. That has also been the added benefit....for example Drive bathurst (which apparently is dead).

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My car is dead with bad E85 now, but i would put it down to a storage issue i think... Was off the pump, into a 200l drum and then into the car a fair while later... Ill pump it all out and replace it with decent pump 85 and should be fine...

If you store e85 or methanol in 44 gallon drums u have to keep the drum elevated on timbers. If store on concrete because of the cold temperature of the product it will freeze on the bottom of the drum tthen when it defrosts you are left with a contaminated product

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United E85 has varied between E82-E84 (haven't actually seen E85) - Caltex was bang no E70 every time.

If you want to be ripped off buying drum E85 for 'piece of mind' go ahead... but there is no way you'd have a tune that would matter if the E% varied a couple percentage points.

the price difference between 200L of 'special' E85 and pump E85 is about $300-$308, you've basically just paid for an ethanol sensor there. Don't even need to have setup for flex fuel, you could just use it to check if you really wanted, not that you would need to though...

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