I haven't been to a dyno yet, so not sure. All I know is that with stock tires and at 5500ft elevation, 1st-2nd are completely useless, 3rd is mostly useless, and even 4th will get squirrely if I try to turn at all while accelerating, even something as minor as a lane change. Basically...
Visconti, $1700 for the initial Ecutek kit, remote unlock, and stage 1 OTS map. Then a few months later after I had installed a downpipe and flex fuel kit, it was another $800 for a stage 2 flex fuel (91 oct/E50) custom tune.
No issues, runs beautifully.
Yeah I'm almost positive it is. Between your DME not being locked and it still showing the same ID as before, I'm pretty confident they didn't actually flash your ECU and you still need to have the recall performed.
No, I’m saying that FI doesn’t mean it can’t be track capable. That’s just a ridiculous statement when nearly every race car is FI. You must see that, right? If GM made a car that wasn’t able to handle the track, that’s on them. It has nothing to do with it being FI or not, plenty of other...
What does FI have to do with not being able to take track abuse? If it can't take track abuse then it can't take track abuse, FI or NA makes no difference. Just about every race car out there is turbo, or was turbo at one time until they were forced to go back to NA because they were too...
Same. I live at altitude, up here NA engines lose so much power you might as well not even bother. An otherwise stock Supra with just a tune would be just as fast as this Z06 in Colorado. Not to mention how difficult it is to add power with NA, as soon as you start comparing mod vs mod, the...
Every few years a new generation of teenagers gets their license and thinks that being obnoxious is funny and cool.
I normally don't feel old, but when I see shit like this trending, it makes me feel ancient.
I had a stage 1 93 oct OTS tune, and it was $800 to go to a stage 2 flex fuel custom tune. Essentially the previous tune was thrown away because I was moving from stage 1 (intake only) to stage 2 (intake + DP). I basically had to pay for 2 custom tunes at $400 each, one at 93 and one at E50...
No
Ethanol burns at a different air/fuel ratio than gasoline. The stoichiometric ratio for gas is 14.7:1, that's 14.7 parts air to 1 part fuel. The stoich for ethanol is 9.0:1, which means you need about 50% more fuel per gram of air when running ethanol versus gasoline. The ECU does not...
Lol, imagine thinking that showing a couple dyno plots of cars at tuned stock turbo power levels discounts literally anything I said. I never said they couldn’t make more power, just that it won’t last. There’s a reason open deck blocks are reserved for cheap NA engines.
No
If it happens naturally then fine, but adding equipment to do it artificially is incredibly lame. Might as well stick some whistle tips on there too.
You don’t need to do anything special if that’s what you’re asking. I have a stage 2 flex fuel Ecutek tune from Visconti, hijacking the sport display was just a standard part of the flash. The left gauge that was HP is now boost, the right gauge that was torque is now ethanol content. It...
Maybe, maybe not. Early 2020s were open, but later 2020s and any 2020 that has had its ECU updated at the dealership as part of a service or recall will be locked and need a bench unlock.