The motorhome was purchased this month and I've already invested about $1500 more into it. It's pretty much at my "breaking point" monetarily for the month. As mentioned in my previous log, I aborted my trip across Ohio in the first 50 miles. And I brought it back home struggling rather than use my 200 mile wrecker service with AAA. Well, I found some money and spent about $115 on tune-up parts and oil today. Nothing fancy, just general 3,000 mile interval stuff. I figure that if I one day put iridium spark plugs in it that I'll never change them ever again. And I'd like to switch to a high mileage interval synthetic oil, too. But that's something for another day.
I was reading that converting to E85 will make the other 15% that's actual gasoline more efficient, but overall, it will loose about 25% of the fuel range (total mileage per tank). And the claim was that the horsepower should go up 3%, but Car and Driver states that they're really neck and neck. So, it all comes to a high price of gasoline at the pump. That might make it more appealing despite the 25% loss in the range? And it can always be run on 100% 87/89/93 octane until such a time occurs. At the worst gas price that I've ever seen ($5.35), it would cost about $214 to fill my motorhome's 40 gallon gasoline tank. It has about a 320 mile range at a 8MPG.
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