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      04-19-2021, 10:01 PM   #45
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Never found a need to run these conditioners. If you're on flex fuel or have the ability to map switch, just cycle through a full tank of pump gas every once in a while.
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Never found a need to run these conditioners. If you're on flex fuel or have the ability to map switch, just cycle through a full tank of pump gas every once in a while.
That's what I've seen works well. However I'm planning to run a E-85 Kill Map with 2 Step Colder plugs gapped to 0.018". I'm not sure how pump gas will run on the plugs gapped that tight. That's why I'm looking into just running a lubricant and staying on E-85 for thousands of miles.
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The Redline active ingredient is a phosphate which could lead to deactivation of your catalytic converter.
I use PowerPlus as my lubricant and it works well:
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Just stick with Lucas. They are the most popular E85 conditioner.

Quite popular as I see many people run this on the GTR forums. However I've still seen people have injectors issues running Lucas Oil's Ethanol Treatment on our platform. So I'm not sure what exactly is causing the injectors to foul but it may be high boost/HPFP related.
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That's what I've seen works well. However I'm planning to run a E-85 Kill Map with 2 Step Colder plugs gapped to 0.018". I'm not sure how pump gas will run on the plugs gapped that tight. That's why I'm looking into just running a lubricant and staying on E-85 for thousands of miles.
YMMV, but I'm running the NGK F8S flex fuel plugs gapped at .018'' as well (on a custom tune) and at E15 the car was happy from what the logs showed. Didn't get a chance to go full pump gas, though.
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YMMV, but I'm running the NGK F8S flex fuel plugs gapped at .018'' as well (on a custom tune) and at E15 the car was happy from what the logs showed. Didn't get a chance to go full pump gas, though.
All the pump gas in my area is no higher than 90 Octane (R+M)/2 within like a 1000 mile radius and contains no ethanol. I also have no E-85 in my state or even relatively close so I'll be sourcing E-85 from somewhere else. Maybe the E-30 OTS Tune will run fine on the colder plugs gapped to 0.018".
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Back on here, I had to share an article about the Power Plus Alcohol Lubricant. Pretty well written and goes over many of the issues encountered before using the lubricant and goes quite in-depth from what other users in FormulaDrift had experienced while using ethanol. Here is the article https://motoiq.com/top-lube-for-e85/. Quite interesting, I recommend you guys check it out. If there is anybody else using this lubricant. Let me know down below how your experience has been.
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