Methanol is corrosive.

Use Ethanol and you'll be fine. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/wink.gif" />

BTW, every chevy avalanche made, will run on E85 (85% ethanol, 15% standard gasoline) from the factory. Same is true of several other new American vehicles.

Ethanol has a higher octane than gasoline by far, but unfortunately octane is not the measure of "power" in gasoline. That would be BTU's and Ethanol has a far lower potential for BTU's than gasoline, also its stoich ratio is quite different.

What i mean to say is, your vehicle won't run great on a combination of fouled gas, water, and ethanol..

however it should run sorta and you shouldn't have any problems.

edit: another note - RIH referred to Methanol as "denatured alcohol" .. this isn't an entirely accurate statement. "Denatured" basically means it has been made unfit to drink using a denaturant. A denaturant can be anything that makes it impalatable.. generally they use something that bitters drastically, and/or invokes the gag reflex. ]

Well, methanol is kinda denatured from the get-go because that really isn't something you want in your body. Ethanol can be denatured using an industry standard bitterant - which is required for all non-beverage ethanol and definitely anything you make in a still in your back yard (by law)

All modern vehicles are designed to be "safe" to use ethanol in... in fact they PUT ethanol into gasoline 4+ months out of the year in many states. (when they're not poisoning you with methyl tertiary butyl ether - MTBE )

Use 10-20% volume along with your gas, and possibly add a bit of fresh gas to increase the BTU's

<small>[ July 04, 2003, 10:10 PM: Message edited by: Eric D ]</small>