What happens if u run ethanol in a kx80?

Question

im buying a kx80 and the owner has ran it on ethanol before. can it burn holes in the piston?

Answer 1

Ethanol is a totally different chemical to petrol. It burns at a different temperature and has different properties.

Yes, it does react with plastics and can dissolve them.

I assume the reason it is being used is because it has more power than petrol. If that is the case, it is because it ifs burning hotter which the engine is not designed for.

I have heard of teenagers putting additives in their bikes and mopeds to make them go faster, but what they end up doing is ruining the engine. I am sure your engine will run perfectly well on ethanol for a while, but if it has not been converted to run on it, it will damage the engine eventually.

If someone told me they ran ethanol in their bike, I wouldn't buy it as I don't know what sort of damage that could cause.

Answer 2

ethanol is what fighter jets and formula1 racing cars use coz the engines are built to run on high powerful revs and speeds..obviously it has a chemical reaction towards plastic,but still i would never recommend ethanol on a Kawasaki Kx,the engine will ware out in no time trust me,it should run alright after the first couple of times but its gonna wreck the engine,pistons and the carbs as well..ya gonna end up with a wrecked and screwed up Kx 80cc dude...normal petrol is good enough,if ya want more torque get a racing set-up like..get racing mufflers,get a bigger sized gas pin for the carb,the bikes gonna consume more gas but it will definitely run faster and adds more torque to the bike..Kx 80 isn't built to run on ethanol anyway..no way on a 2-stroke offroad bike mate      

Answer 3

.,......BANG...simple as that.

Answer 4

the thing with ethanol is it eats plastic.

but if he ran it on straight ethanol then the carby would have been rejeted.

did you get told that or are the jets standard.

running a little motor like that on ethanol is weird to me, it would be better to run small amounts of nitro from a hobby shop for remote control cars.

it can be hard to get but straight nitro unmixed put in your fuel in very small amounts, as then it might melt the piston.

some places have ethanol sold in standard fuel, and it is corrosive to seals in carbies and intake manifolds and it is hygroscopic meaning it pulls moisture out of the air and makes steel tanks rust, and the other type are plastic and it is corrosive to them, it is such good 5hit.

yes it is used in drag racing but they fill the tank up and it is empty again in a quarter mile.