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Ok - in your best Professor Farnsworth impersonation (Futurama, in case you had to ask) -
Good News, Everyone -
Jody has been working with us to help with the problem of smoking and W85.
Through the shared experiences of many people on the alternative fuels forum and Jody's magic - the problem is largely solved.
My own experiences with W85 were smoke free performance for the first day or two, then progressively worse smoking to the point I was waiting for the EPA to send agents to my house. I added RUG a gallon at a time with no help. I filled it up with D2 and the smoke continued. I was convinced I had killed my truck.
For a little personal anger management, I did a full throttle acceleration as therapy. The truck quit smoking. Over the next few days of running W85 - the smoke was back. One more WOT run - cleared again. My theory was that the W85 was burning slower and coating the inside of my exhaust manifolds and turbo. Running up the temperature burned off the residue and I was smoke free until the residue built up.
Armed with this, I spoke with a few W85 founding fathers. Chris (rsr911) mentioned he advanced his timing on his IDI which helped with the smoking. We consulted with Jody and he built us several experimental tunes to do this to our PSDs.
After a month of testing - here's where we are at. My trucks smoking is down about 95%. I smoke a lot less than the Dodge boys. :thumbsup: I can idle the truck at the bank drive through without worrying about killing the other customers. I had a motorcycle follow me for 40 miles last Sunday. I consider this a huge success.
In full disclosure - my truck will begin to smoke minimally after a week or so on W85. NOTHING like before, but still a slight haze. One heavy acceleration and it clears up. The exhaust still isn't as pleasant smelling as someone running used french fry oil, but that's a small price to pay considering the fuel savings.
Jody announced today the W85 tunes are ready to be released. I have been running the W85-60 econo. I have pulled with the W85-80 tow with minimally increased smoking on heavy throttle. I personally am going to use the W85-60 tow just for the decreased fueling strategy. My EGTs are running about 50 degrees below D2.
I am very excited about this. I was just about ready to throw in the towel with W85 due to the smell and smoke. Now I'm in it for good.
Edit: until Jody gets the website updated, call the office or e-mail for the tunes. I'm sure he'll get the website changed after the first few hundred calls.
Good News, Everyone -
Jody has been working with us to help with the problem of smoking and W85.
Through the shared experiences of many people on the alternative fuels forum and Jody's magic - the problem is largely solved.
My own experiences with W85 were smoke free performance for the first day or two, then progressively worse smoking to the point I was waiting for the EPA to send agents to my house. I added RUG a gallon at a time with no help. I filled it up with D2 and the smoke continued. I was convinced I had killed my truck.
For a little personal anger management, I did a full throttle acceleration as therapy. The truck quit smoking. Over the next few days of running W85 - the smoke was back. One more WOT run - cleared again. My theory was that the W85 was burning slower and coating the inside of my exhaust manifolds and turbo. Running up the temperature burned off the residue and I was smoke free until the residue built up.
Armed with this, I spoke with a few W85 founding fathers. Chris (rsr911) mentioned he advanced his timing on his IDI which helped with the smoking. We consulted with Jody and he built us several experimental tunes to do this to our PSDs.
After a month of testing - here's where we are at. My trucks smoking is down about 95%. I smoke a lot less than the Dodge boys. :thumbsup: I can idle the truck at the bank drive through without worrying about killing the other customers. I had a motorcycle follow me for 40 miles last Sunday. I consider this a huge success.
In full disclosure - my truck will begin to smoke minimally after a week or so on W85. NOTHING like before, but still a slight haze. One heavy acceleration and it clears up. The exhaust still isn't as pleasant smelling as someone running used french fry oil, but that's a small price to pay considering the fuel savings.
Jody announced today the W85 tunes are ready to be released. I have been running the W85-60 econo. I have pulled with the W85-80 tow with minimally increased smoking on heavy throttle. I personally am going to use the W85-60 tow just for the decreased fueling strategy. My EGTs are running about 50 degrees below D2.
I am very excited about this. I was just about ready to throw in the towel with W85 due to the smell and smoke. Now I'm in it for good.
Edit: until Jody gets the website updated, call the office or e-mail for the tunes. I'm sure he'll get the website changed after the first few hundred calls.
