E85 Storage Question (General Evo Storage as well)

[evoempire]

On a side note I don't even think my oil temps get up to 180f when I drive unless its a really hot day, my oil temp gauge stays around 60-70C when cruising. I would have to do a bunch of wot pulls to get my temps up.

[jamesinger]

...also Lucas oil makes that Ethanol stabilizer available at RRE. I am not sure how good it works but I will soon, since my car sat for 3 months with a 1/2 tank of E85 and the Lucas oil E85 additive. Regardless, when RRE got the car running again, fresh E85 was put in regardless. Once I am driving the car regularly again, I can tell you how effective it is but the added insurance helps in any case.

[cky_bam_marg]

Store it filled up to the top! And you'll be fine.

Treat ethanol the same way you would any type of alcohol.

It had a low boiling point which means ethanol doesn't need much energy for it to turn into a vapor "evaporate" so keep it in as cool of a place as you can

it absorbs/mixes with water "think vodka- like if it is 40% alcohol what do you think the other 60% of the liquid in the bottle is?"

So just store it in you gas tank filled to the opening of the gas tank whole and close it- so air from the air we breath won't mix into it and lower the alcohol percentage and keep it in a cool garage so it won't turn into a "gas phase" from it's "liquid" phase which would be a lose in product.

Ethanol "drinking alcohol" can be stored forever and not break down as long as it's stored properly "think vintage bottle of alcohol" ^_^ well hope that helps.

You our can also look up a chemical data sheet for ethanol which will tell you all of this chemicals perameters, this should help give you an idea of what are the best conditions for this chemical :-)