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So the other day I poped in an seen my mechanic to talk about a set of cams for my r33gtst making 307rwkw an after about 5 minutes he ask me if I've considered e85, I said no as I "thought" there were no stations around where I live that stock it!

He fills me in with quit a few locations only 15minuts from where I live so now I'm interested all of a sudden:)

Having never researched e85 myself my trust was 100% in his hands..

Can someone give me some info on problems that I might incounter?

Also what's a realistic area of power that I will see after the tune is done?

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High mount 35/40 63r

Greddy plenum

Cooler

3inch exhaust

Fpr

Custom rail

875cc injectors

Twin walbro 400lph pumps

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plenty of benefits of going to E85 but i guess it depends on what you are doing with the car? My personal opinion is that if you are daily driving prob not the best option but each to their own

you will def need new injectors at the very least

Oil tends to become contimated due to the E85 so run something that suits...plenty of topics arount the net on it and most people lean towards the HPR range

as for your power increase you are looking at 20 -- 30wkw without changing anything but this will allow you to run more boost/timing etc etc so depends on what you want to achieve

Read the FI section - and search with "E85"

There are PLENTY of threads that go into intricate details - so closing this.

That said with a .63 GT35 has always been a bad turbo combination, simply changing to .82 you can net around 370rwkw on 20-22psi on pump with minimal lag increase (also plenty of detail in the FI section)

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