Purchase of Turbo Buick set up for E85 not in area with E85 available

[BMS1]

Hello
If you purchase a turbo buick that is set up for E85 but you live in area in the country where its not available, can you leave the injectors, chip, fuel pump ie everything changed over for E85 fuel as is or do you need to change it back in order for it to run on 93 Octane?

Never really thought about this as E85 is not available to me but there seems like there is decent amount of cars here that are converted that I am sure come up for sale time to time.

Thanks for the help
Brian

 

[turbo89]

basically a chip change as long as they are 80# and smaller injectors

 

[belsie]

Having all the info on the conversion helps with this, some just do partial while some go all out................. Fuel pump capacity, chip & injectors are the most common to be modified while some go with larger lines etc..............

 

[TURBOPOWERED68]

injectors and chip and let it rip

 

[dank GN]

Do u have a ethonal sensor ? I'm using one so I can run flex fuel with the SD2 TT chip

 

[m3x1c0]

Hello I bought one setup for e85. Using 120's I didn't need anything but a chip. Fullthrottle helped big time in getting the tune to work with that setup. Also, I'd recommend going through fuel lines, replacing fuel filter and fuel pumps at very least before running hard on premium. It WILL eat these soft bits up. A lot of people claim it ruins the motor over time but mine was practically mint during the rebuild. I do think it attributed to my fuel pump failure however. I'd also have the injectors cleaned and flow tested (thanks again Chuck. your the man!)

 

[turbo89]

Hello I bought one setup for e85. Using 120's I didn't need anything but a chip. Fullthrottle helped big time in getting the tune to work with that setup. Also, I'd recommend going through fuel lines, replacing fuel filter and fuel pumps at very least before running hard on premium. It WILL eat these soft bits up. A lot of people claim it ruins the motor over time but mine was practically mint during the rebuild. I do think it attributed to my fuel pump failure however. I'd also have the injectors cleaned and flow tested (thanks again Chuck. your the man!)

your saying PREMIUM pump fuel will eat up lines ?? and he needs to replace the pumps ? WHY ????

running 120's on pump ?? IS it a 8 second car ?? geez .. 72's are plenty to get into the 9's .. even the 80's are overkill but they have excellent street manners so I can see them working well even on pump .. but 120's .. would ditch those to the E85 guys that want to split their stock blocks .. that or trade straight up to someone that wants to go from 80's to 120's and split their stock block

 

[m3x1c0]

your saying PREMIUM pump fuel will eat up lines ?? and he needs to replace the pumps ? WHY ????

running 120's on pump ?? IS it a 8 second car ?? geez .. 72's are plenty to get into the 9's .. even the 80's are overkill but they have excellent street manners so I can see them working well even on pump .. but 120's .. would ditch those to the E85 guys that want to split their stock blocks .. that or trade straight up to someone that wants to go from 80's to 120's and split their stock block

No E85 will eat the soft lines and can ruin fuel pumps. 120s was what it came with before I switched to premium/alky. Chip dictates fuel not the injectors. Yea its overkill but they are quality injectors and they work so who cares.

 

[turbo89]

No E85 will eat the soft lines and can ruin fuel pumps. 120s was what it came with before I switched to premium/alky. Chip dictates fuel not the injectors. Yea its overkill but they are quality injectors and they work so who cares.

The chip can only control the injectors to a point .. then you will have driveability issues.. regardless if the injector is a "QUALITY" injector or not ...

"They work" sure... if you want to look at it from that standpoint a 160 or 20 pound injector will "Work" too ... doesn't make it correct for the application...

To the OP .. if you have no intent of ever running E85 again after you purchase the car ... get the right chip / injector setup for a GAS application and all will be good

 

[BMS1]

The chip can only control the injectors to a point .. then you will have driveability issues.. regardless if the injector is a "QUALITY" injector or not ...

"They work" sure... if you want to look at it from that standpoint a 160 or 20 pound injector will "Work" too ... doesn't make it correct for the application...

To the OP .. if you have no intent of ever running E85 again after you purchase the car ... get the right chip / injector setup for a GAS application and all will be good

I live in NE where E85 in only available in certain parts., so I couldn't run it if I want to. Thank you for the help !