I've recently thrown another spanner in the works...I'm considering upgrading my fuel system to support E85/flex-fuel. I'm certainly not committed to the idea yet, but I'm thinking about it.
The idea suddenly crossed my mind when I realised that it would probably be easier to upgrade the fuel rail and injectors when the intake manifold is being swapped over.
My Adaptronic ECU has complete flex-fuel functionality when a suitable sensor is installed. If I upgraded now, I would basically have to get one dyno tune on 0% ethanol (normal premium 98 gasoline), and another dyno tune on E85 (85% ethanol), or maybe 70% ethanol depending on availability, then my ECU would interpolate the fuel enrichment and additional ignition advance to handle any in-between ethanol concentrations. I could optionally get a third dyno tune at about 30-50% ethanol concentration just to make sure it's all good in-between, but I doubt I would bother.
In hindsight I wish I'd previously anticipated the possibility of upgrading to E85 later, so I could have had a more suitable fuel pump fitted when it was changed the first time. I currently have the walbro 255lph one, which wouldn't flow enough (marginally I think), and may not be ethanol compatible anyway, I'm not sure.
My existing 800cc/min side-feed injectors and fuel rail would also have to be swapped to 1200+ cc/min injectors with a top-feed fuel rail. I could get a kit from RacerX and add it to my intake manifold order.
Has anyone on this forum had experience with E85/flex-fuel on an SW20?