# E85 Conversion **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Automotive\ **Created:** [September 20, 2008, 11:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/e85-conversion/199716 "2008-09-20T11:41:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 21
**Author:** ![brokeasskorean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@brokeasskorean](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/brokeasskorean)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 7:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/e85-conversion/199716/21 "2008-09-22T19:18:55Z")
> [@Getting out of Lease](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/getting-out-of-lease/37978/16): > > The concept of running some random E85-gasoline blend and getting a totally unknown mixture seems mildly retarded. E85 is not gasoline and while I acknowledge the potential for performance gains with a proper conversion, I would never run E85 through a motor that was only set up to burn gasoline. Aside from not really knowing the properties of the aforementioned 33% blend, E85 as a classification denotes “up to” 85% ethanol by volume, so not all E85 has the same amount of ethanol. truth, but the octane levels would still be higher than pump gas. even if the ethanol levels vary --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/e85-conversion/199716)._