04-10-2011
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flips McGee
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ethanol content testers--are the cheap ones accurate enough?
I've heard shane has an expensive ethanol tester, curious what it does vs the cheapies like this one:
http://www.quickfueltechnology.com/s...test-tube.html
Also, any good methods for getting fuel into one of these things w/o spilling or overfilling it?
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04-10-2011
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Re: ethanol content testers--are the cheap ones accurate enough?
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Also, any good methods for getting fuel into one of these things w/o spilling or overfilling it?
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Um, don't try to fill it at the gas pump? 
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04-10-2011
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Transmission destroyer
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Re: ethanol content testers--are the cheap ones accurate enough?
I have one of the Buschur ones, haven't had a chance to use it yet though. I will say its not really easy getting the water to the correct line. Thinking about buying a turkey baster and a small gas jug to do it with.
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04-10-2011
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Re: ethanol content testers--are the cheap ones accurate enough?
they work good. I have one from when I was in tech school. It only goes to 10% content though. turkey baster sounds like a good Idea. I have a secont tube that I would transfer fuel from a gas can into and then slowly pore into the vile.
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04-17-2011
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Transmission destroyer
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Re: ethanol content testers--are the cheap ones accurate enough?
Tried mine out today. I guess it works? lol
It's right on the nuts at 70%, though you can't quite tell in the pictures. I'll probably be using this over the course of the summer during my e85 experience.
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04-17-2011
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Re: ethanol content testers--are the cheap ones accurate enough?
I will say that cheap testers like this are typically pretty good regardless of the application in my experience. For my saltwater aquarium I use manual testers to test a handful of things, you don't always need electronic gadgetry.
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04-17-2011
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Re: ethanol content testers--are the cheap ones accurate enough?
Those cheap ones work great. My buddys dad uses one for his drag car he said it is very accurate.
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05-16-2011
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Re: ethanol content testers--are the cheap ones accurate enough?
St. Cloud Coborn's is at E75 now 
I forgot to mention, when I got tuned we compared this little guy with Shane's fancy pants tester and they came out reading the same thing.
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I swing from the nuts of cold hard data. Anything less is a guess.
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05-16-2011
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flips McGee
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Re: ethanol content testers--are the cheap ones accurate enough?
I just bout this one for $10 shipped on ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...m=150594694596
Not the best, but for my purposes it should be fine.
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I need to listen to Scheides more often i think :)
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Originally Posted by turbotalon1g
...I realized that I can't keep up my shit talking without anything to back it up.
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Originally Posted by JV
S2000: For those of us that know the Miata is the best car on the planet, but also want extra power and to not have to turn in our man cards.
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05-16-2011
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Shit Rocket Pilot
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Re: ethanol content testers--are the cheap ones accurate enough?
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That one's graduation is shit compared to what goodhart has... Will be difficult to know exactly what you have.
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05-23-2011
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flips McGee
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Re: ethanol content testers--are the cheap ones accurate enough?
This thing is smaller than I thought. It's about the size of a pack of wrigley's. Still, it works perfect for my needs, my tank is filled with 85% ethanol:
(angle of pic is slightly off, in person it's obvious)
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Originally Posted by Murlo26
I need to listen to Scheides more often i think :)
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Originally Posted by turbotalon1g
...I realized that I can't keep up my shit talking without anything to back it up.
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Originally Posted by JV
S2000: For those of us that know the Miata is the best car on the planet, but also want extra power and to not have to turn in our man cards.
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05-23-2011
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Re: ethanol content testers--are the cheap ones accurate enough?
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Originally Posted by scheides
This thing is smaller than I thought. It's about the size of a pack of wrigley's. Still, it works perfect for my needs, my tank is filled with 85% ethanol:
(angle of pic is slightly off, in person it's obvious)
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You should test regular unleaded just to see how much Ethanol is in regular gas.
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