Kiss your injectors goodbye: Senator pushes for E20

[nuQ]

i'm very ignorant when it comes to how ethanol effects the engines or injectors of the Q. can a gasoline additive be used to combat the higher increase in ethanol???

[Q45tech]

Ethanol adds and desolves certain types of plastics. Bosch Japan designed Q injectors to operate with conventional gasoline available in JAPAN back in 1988. No one used ethanol in gasoline in Japan or US in 1988.

Even MTBE [also an alcoholic ether] caused reactions to a lesser degree.

Unfortunately US refiners changed formulations time and time again after the injectors were installed.

I don't believe anything can BUFFER the solvent action without causing clogging problems.

There were early cases where SULFURIC ACID was used to remove the water in distilled ethanol.........unfortunately they sold it contaminated but that situation no longer occurs.

[Peterofdevon]

Perhaps there will surface an industry to rebuild/remanufacture injectors for older cars.

If there is money in it---it will happen.

There are many 90s Nissans on the road. Nissan should take some responsibility for helping their owners. I read on some board or in CR that some Acrura model has a 25% injector failure record!

We should all write to Nissan USA and get the ball rolling.

Peter

[audtatious]

Until then, it's just making global warming worse.

Except CO2 is not causing global warming

[Q45tech]

http://www.faa.gov/aircraft/sa...6.pdf

Ethanol gasoline not approved or safe for planes or aircraft.