03-23-2015, 10:39 AM
(03-23-2015, 10:29 AM)Pterodactyl_imp Wrote: Honda approves fuel contain Ethanol or Methanol for the CB1100. I don't use it in mine. If it was the choice of use it or a long walk, I'd use it.
Cheers
True enough...about the long walk.
As for Honda approving it...I have no idea what's gone on in Oz, or the details of what Honda is up against...but I know that here in the Big PX, initially, ten years ago, when booze was mandated in gasoline...
...initially the better-rep carmakers, Toyota at the fore, were yelling murder. Said it would damage their fuel and emissions equipment (and they weren't wrong). Warned that resultant damage (rust, from absorbed water, and pitting in the micron-thin surfaces in the FI system) might not be covered under warranty.
Our beneficient government took them to the woodshed; and even staged a few "runaway Toyota" false-events to put the fear of God into them.
It worked. They got their heads right; and now they smile and nod and say that Gasohol is pretty-good-fine.
SIDE NOTE: Touring with my BMW R1200GS, some years back...I noticed that my fuel mileage would drop DRASTICALLY when I had to use ethanol gasoline - and it would take about three tanks of non-corrupted gas to reverse it.
MY GUESS was that the ethanol screwed up the feedback-loop fuel injection system, and either put it in a default limp-in mode or just enriched it...since ethanol has significantly-less power (less BTUs) than straight gas. So, that rotgut fuel was doing something, and that something wasn't very good.
So much for saving gasoline with ethanol.