Ethanol Free Gas Is Magic!

I've had a hesitation stumble on my '97 since I bought it. Rough just off idle to about 2200 rpm most noticeable at parking lot speed.  I've cleaned the carbs, synced the carbs, done an idle drop, replaced the air filter, changed the plugs, checked the valve adjustment every  thing  I could think of to get rid of this condition. Would improve for a short time with various gas additives but return on next fill up. On my last fill up the station had ethanol free 89 octane, $4.22 a gal. Ouch!! Thought why not? I was on the fuel light and needed to try something different, Filled it up rode about 20 miles and put it up. Fired it up the next morning for work, Wow! came off the choke in no time and on stopping for the first red light had to turn down the idle speed. The parking lot at work where this is most noticeable there  was no problem smooth as glass. A tank later and I'm a believer, worth every penny of the extra cost!  Runs better through out the rpm range. All that work and it was just crap gas. Guess you live and you learn. Thank you "Magic Gas" for making me happy, happy, happy... :cheerleader:

My  93  hated  ethanol  .

AND, you'll get better milage. Mine gets about 15% better on the ethanol free REAL gas. Helps make up for the added expense. 

Check around if there's a sunoco that sells ethanol free race gas. Not that you need the high octane part of it, but because it will be on it's own pump and line.

If the gas is pumped from the same line with the octane selector, in theory, there is still 4 gallons of whatever the previous owner pumped in the line. So when you pay for the higher octane, you are not necessarily getting 100% that. If it's on a separate pump, you can be free of doubt what's going in your tank.

AND, you'll get better milage. Mine gets about 15% better on the ethanol free REAL gas. Helps make up for the added expense. 

Ethanol - 42mpg

Pure gas - 55mpg.

Yosh, do you really think it's 4-gallons?  I've started the practice of using ethanol-free fuel in my small-engine stuff as well as my wife's Nighthawk.  I typically fill up my gas cans after flushing the line with "the good stuff".  I flush the line by putting some of that fuel in my car, but have wondered EVERY TIME I've done that, how much do I really need to flush.  It all comes down to where the switching between octanes takes place.

And for others looking for the ethanol free fuel, as you would guess, there's an app for that!  I use Pure Gas, and it works well for me.  Although all the stations that carry "the good stuff", they only supply it in the 91/92 octane rating.

I read on an article discussing the issues with pushing E15 fuel with an E10 option that since the pumps are blender pumps (one line for all fuels) that there would be 4 gallons of E15 left in the line, which would cause an issue for people who couldn't run it. And since the fuel is blended, you don't have anywhere to pump it back to.

So I can't state that it was a fact. But thinking about the amount of line between the end of the hose and the actual tanks underneath, it's not hard to imagine that it's at least a couple gallons.

In my 94, I've never noticed any discernable difference in power/mpg between pure and e10. And the pure gas pumps had their own nozzle. Might try it in the 07, but not expecting much difference, besides paying 25 cents more a gallon.