E85

[Lord of the Fly , Rods]

For all of you all that fish out of a boat with a outboard motor, what have you heard about using gasoline with E85 , I have heard it will ruin your outboard motor, because of lack of octain, I know up north  E85 is more available, I think they call it Flexfuel, I have been advised to only run Premium gas in my outboards, Has any one else had experience with this, what do you think?

[Dan Gwaltney]

Don't put that stuff in your outboard! E85 is only for vehicles especially equipped to use it, and those vehicles are plainly marked. Any other engine shouldn't get more than 10% ethanol, but ethanol-free is best.

E85 will eat up fuel lines and gaskets that aren't made for it, and the computers in E85 cars are set up to compensate for it.