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Environment & Energy

HooptieWagon

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1. Methanol is highly corrosive to engine parts.

Reply to Bill USA (Original post)

Sun Jun 30, 2013, 09:30 PM

Jun 2013

When Indy cars used to burn methanol, they had to drain and bleed the fuel system, and run the car on gasoline for 30 minutes after each practice session and the race, to flush out all traces of methanol. Mechanics called it "pickling" the engine.

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Lotus Engineering's presentation for developing Methanol as a transportation fuel [View all] Bill USA Jun 2013 OP

Methanol is highly corrosive to engine parts. HooptieWagon Jun 2013 #1

it is well known that methanol is more corrosive than ethanol. This is not an insurmountable problem Bill USA Jul 2013 #2

If builders of $250,000 Indycar engines had problems.... HooptieWagon Jul 2013 #3