Follow the Drag Racing adventures of Uncle Scott as he wrenches on and modifies a 1991 Eagle Talon Drag car that he made RWD back in the early 2000's. This thing has a 3/4 race cam and will jump a whole case of pop cans!
Also home to Beef Cherokee, an turbo LS swapped XJ! I drag race that, too.
If I'm not thinking about race cars, I'm thinking about Drag and Drive cars.
Do you have any data to see if this fuel will help with high iat’s with it being 45% methanol? I’m thinking about mixing my own and running it versus running e98
Im curious, if the goal is to make the same values as E85, why add the E85 at all? I feel like once you have mixed the methanol and race gas any amount of ethanol from 0 gallons to 100 gallons would make the same stoic value? Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Gasoline is not inherently miscible with Methanol. Just mixing the two, the Gas/Methanol will separate and you'll have a bad time with that as your AFR swings from somewhere around 6.5 all the way up to 14.7. The Ethanol in GEM binds it all together, ensuring nothing separates. I have a paper somewhere about this where they tested it, the value was around a minimum 8-10%, but it's fuzzy and it's been a long time since I read it so I might be off on that value. But with the amount of Ethanol I use in this mix, I have not experienced any sort of separation.
@@phydiux unfortunately... pump E may not be the answer to mixing, I didn't test it but I'm wondering if I was around 76/78% E in company to 98% in other ethanol based fuels. Long story short it seperated and I burnt up my motor 🤦🏽 tune was on, fueling was on, timing was safe. Some plugs read like M1 plugs, others read like race gas plugs. Learning experience for sure.
I'm sure with the presence of meth, it'd probably have a slight edge over race ethanol due to the latent heat of evaporative properties of meth. If anything, this is more for quantity purposes, race gas is 30% more expensive than ethanol and meth is nearly 20% cheaper than ethanol. Undiluted meth is corrosive and lacks the energy density of ethanol and gasoline. It's a fuel that CANNOT sit in the tank and HAS TO be flushed out after every use with gasoline or you'll risk damaging fuel components, especially injectors. Assuming you had one pale of gas, one pale of ethanol, and two meth pales, you'd have nearly enough to make five pales if mixed to stoichiometric like in the video. Anybody jumping through these hoops for emissions has been misled, you'd be better off running gasoline and slightly leaning out the map on low load cruising scenarios.
Fuel pump, injector and class requirements. Also, with this fuel I have no change in the tune between street and track tunes, as it is a drop in replacement for e85.
In Sweden, there should be no Methanol in regular E85 In addition to ethanol and gasoline, E85 in Sweden also contains the denaturants MTBE/ETBE and isobutanol
Surely there should be equipment that can tell exactly what octane content is in the petrol? .Or that can show ethanol content. There are cars that can show the octane content on a screen
Toluene or Xylene Does Raise the octane in MON more than alcohol-based fuels? But the disadvantage is that these are strong solvents. But on the other hand, apparently, for example, ethanol has stronger knock resistance than what the octane level says. Certainly more oxygen too
However, there is a RU-vid video that the US military did a test that showed that Methanol did more damage than ethanol. eg that there were more metal particles in the oil. this test was probably done in the 70s, so a long time ago
Good job making it through the small hiccups with some grace therefore having generally enjoyable and accomplished trip. As a DSM'er/Pain Freak myself I wanted to ask how you feel that the rear wheel drive conversion compares to what the guys are now able to do with the all-wheel drive automatics?
Our race team suffered a clutch fork failure, and a trans and diff failure shutting down the left lane at Norwalk's DSM Shootout for a couple hours for clean up. The team did win the DSM Eliminator in 2009.
Have absolutely bothered you asking questions about GEM in the recent past... very much appreciate this video and probably won't have reason to bother you over it in the future. Ha!
@@christart8461 that's a question without a definite answer. GEM will probably not directly convey additional power like nitro or other oxygenated fuels but it may allow the engine to be tuned differently than when on pump gas or E85 which could then yield more power. More timing, more air density and so on. Just depends...
Would have been good to see the injectors close up. I am wondering, did they actually have the Bosch logo imprinted in the casting just off the side anywhere? Did you get them flow tested at all as you were saying you might. If so, how did they perform?
It's a rear view mirror with integrated camera purchased from NikoMaku on Amazon and was about $160. I didn't intend on using this for footage, but it was really nice to not worry about setting up a GoPro during the week while trying to race! Maybe I'll do a more in depth review, I actually like this unit although I plan on replacing it with a different one this year.
@@phydiux appreciate it! My new race car isn’t going to have much visibility, so review camera would be great. And footage for YT is a nice bonus! What are you thinking of for replacement??
My car has slightly damaged the current camera setup due to vibration (there's been a notable decrease in image quality and increase in errors recording to microSD, but it's not totally broken) so I'm looking at options that move the cameras off the mirror so I can mount them in a dampened manner. And I'd like a 2K or better resolution on the front and 1080p on the rear camera.
Thank you so much for taking the time to do this video. I’ve been trying to get into rmrw for two years but have been late each year. I run a mighty max with a 2.3 t400. It’s a street truck that runs pretty consistent mid 9s. Hopefully we can meet up at one of these events soon
So if the Fuk Yew injector company make injectors of uniform weight that means they are good regardless of fuel delivery rate or pattern? Guess I wasted my time making that flow rig!
I love it! It would be helpful if you had a video side by side with it that shows how it appears to your eye. I have my students fade an LED with pwm but it is hard to show them that the fading is because of the differing amounts of blinking.
How has the Bosch 210s performed over time? I was surprised to see the VS price compared to their competitors. What other reputable places have near that price you paid? Thanks
