e-10..thoughts? ideas? best guess??

[zooker]

lets face it in a few years unleaded is going to be gone.we all will forced due to govt regs to burn this bull sh!t in our outboard moters..

if this sh!t don't boost marina visits nothing else will..

of course the standard practice everyone seems to agree on is the use of a 10 micron water seperator and sta-bil ethonal treatment..i use this set up plus seafoam in my yamaha..

i have run e-10 in my boat. let me tell ya i don't like it at ALL. i recently did a side by side running of the stuff with regular unleaded.in my tweaked 50 horse yamaha 2 stroke carb moter swinging a customized 10 3/8 x 14ish stainless steel prop...i started with excatly 6 gallon of fuel each time.weather was mid 50's overcast both days. i did the same milk run on a local lake.-mid week-

hooking up a portable tach and my gps unit i went out and fished..

with unleaded running at wot 5800 rpm i hit 41.6mph gps. and burned just a hair under 3 gallon.

the e-10 had a boggy hole shot-every time-wot at 5600 rpm at 39.8 mph gps.the moter burned nearly 4 GALLON of fuel in the 15.7 mile run..

i did however un hook the fuel line from the moter and run it empty of corn upon loading the boat..dodging a problem that i figure is going to haunt alot of guys..

since i do have a 6 gallon portable tank i just removed the tank and emptied it. -put in the truck-

this all happened afore i talked to 1fastlaser.who was pitchin a fit about e-10...you aint alone...

this is my thought-i tend to agree with laser-only put as much e-10 in the tank as you will burn in a single day.since e-10 draws water like a sponge any lenth of "sit" time adds to the water.this is also important if you live in the high humidity areas of the south..

i highly dout the big three-omc,yamaha,merc- will figure out the tuning problems assoated with e-10. in time to be of really any use to us before we fall under the cloud of corn fuel...
if the proper tuning does appear put money on it coming from susuki outboards...

zooker