What do you need to do to make a 1984 chevy c10 with a 350 edelbrock 1406 carb run on E85?

the motor it's new and the transmission it's new and i just want to run E85 not turn the truck in to a rack truckWhat do you need to do to make a 1984 chevy c10 with a 350 edelbrock 1406 carb run on E85?
In a Naturally Aspirated engine, E85 is a waste of time at less than 11:1 compression.

It's a cheap octane alternative to Race gas, but unless you have some compression or a turbo/blower with 20lbs of boost, don't waste your time/energy. Seriously.
I've never seen this done, but to start you need to increase the size of the main jets by a bunch. You might check at the edelbrock web sight, and see if you can get some technical help with this one.What do you need to do to make a 1984 chevy c10 with a 350 edelbrock 1406 carb run on E85?
Besides changing the carburetor you will also need to replace many of the seals, hoses, and gaskets; anything rubber that will contact the E-85. E-85 will damage seals that were intended to be used with gasoline.



Quite frankly you would have to be quite foolish or ignorant to even consider using E-85. Your mileage will drop by about 40% so it will cost you more to drive on E-85 than it would on gasoline unless E-85 sells for much less per gallon than gas. Also, the production of ethanol damages the environment more than gasoline. It pollutes the water, consumes as much energy to produce it as you get back out, and depletes the worlds food supply. The only reason E-85 even exists is the power of the farm lobby working to increase food prices, and our politicians attempting to give the illusion that they are doing something about the energy crisis.



Many people point to the use of E-85 in Brazil as an example of the benefits of E-85. In Brazil E-85 is produced from sugar which is several time more efficient than using corn.
I agree with howard, and just for your information, E85 is a higher octane fuel, which I'm assuming is why you want to run E85. But it has less BTU's than gasoline, so it's give and take. I would just run gas and save money. Not to mention your fuel system and motor is already designed to run on gas. Why change it?What do you need to do to make a 1984 chevy c10 with a 350 edelbrock 1406 carb run on E85?
you can pull the carb off and let someone beat you with it E85 will reduce gas milage and power besides its a chevy its not meant to run off E85
makes no sense to me why you want to change the motor over to e-85, you might as well change it to propane. it is a wast of time and money.
Theres a place for E85 fuel in older performance apps. But alot needs to be thought about and done to make it work.



E85 gets about 40% less fuel mileage but has a good bit higher octane so that means you can bump your compression ratio up, higher compression helps engine to have a higher VE% and will get better mileage.



So going from 8.5 to 9:1 on pump fuel to 11:1 on E85 will get your lost mileage back.



Now you have to think about the fuel. E85 will eat up rubber and corrode alum.



So you have to replace all rubber lines with steel or stainless in the fuel system.



You have to replace rubber seals and gaskets in carb, fuel pump and engine with nitophyl, viton, or bunna



You need to have all alum parts like body of carb anodized or coated in some sort of a way so the E85 wont touch the aluminum



Then of course you need to jet your carb up a good bit