Ethanol Plug...Should I find Ethanol Free Gas?

[snopro_ac]

So can I buy a high octane, non-oxygenated fuel from VP or Sunoco? I don't trust the quality of a few of the local station's premium fuel so I want the good stuff. Completely willing to pay the money for a drum of fuel for both my sleds.

i used to have to do that with a race sled, it like only pure 110 leaded fuel, i know it was good fuel but what a pain to drag that barrel everywhere i wanted to go. i want to use the regular plug and i don't put ethonol in any toy, hope the interenet will show what each stations's fuel contains.

 

[ndC7M8]

i used to have to do that with a race sled, it like only pure 110 leaded fuel, i know it was good fuel but what a pain to drag that barrel everywhere i wanted to go. i want to use the regular plug and i don't put ethonol in any toy, hope the interenet will show what each stations's fuel contains.

Yeah i imagine my buddies wouldnt like me stuffing a barrel in the trailer for every trip we go on. but still, i dont trust small town gas stations, unless that small town is cooke city, or west yellowstone

 

[rocket]

They've had a similar feature in the past, though it was a pair of wires that needed to be plugged together or unplugged for oxygenated/non-oxygenated. I can agree with the comments of having exhaust temps come up with known oxygenated fuel, but I've also run every modded sled I've owned on the stuff without any issues, provided it is jetted accordingly. To me, the biggest issue is switching from one fuel type to another if you decide to "run on the edge", not the simple fact fuel has alcohol in it. As far as the 800 is concerned, I really think the problems in the past were the lousy ECM calibration Polaris put in them, not the fuel. With my '08 (post update), I found I needed to run non-oxygenated gas with the wires in the "oxygenated fuel" configuration AND add more fuel with a PC5 to make my DET light stay off. Once I had a good map, I could run 89 octane w/ethanol without any issues as well and the sled really didn't run noticeably different on one fuel vs the other.