Quote from: AJP turbo on August 16, 2016, 03:14:31 PM
Quote from: Livernois Motorsports on August 16, 2016, 02:04:00 PM
Quote from: FistyMcgee on August 15, 2016, 01:56:49 PM
Thank you. I am happy with the canned tune for my '14 mks but I'd like to see more out of it, from what you guys have been saying it should be a bit more aggressive. I don't lose traction or chirp at all unless I'm making a turn from a dead stop, no chirp between gears 1-2 or anything like that, I don't want the charger guys to be able to hold their own against my car either and it is almost a dead heat against a charger with the current tune. I'll buy the downpipes and see how much that helps. I would like to use a proper actual octane booster on the car, being that I live in Cali I have crap gas 91 octane gas. I know I'm a bit all over the map on this reply so thanks for bearing with me.
Are you running our tuning? If you are, what mods do you have? What tune are you running? I can assure you that any SHO, MKS or XSport that I have driven w/ our tuning and parts on it is fully capable of chirping the tires from basically any speed in 1st and 2nd gears. Biker's car was here last week...don't tell him, but his car does it! lol
Quote from: AJP turbo on August 15, 2016, 05:31:25 PM
"Race gas concentrate " in the orange and white can is the best thing going...i wouldnt waste money on anything else...the stuff is as advertised
DO NOT USE ANY TYPE OF OCTANE BOOSTERS OR "RACE GAS ADDITIVES"!!!!!!! If you want more research octane use better fuel.
Quote from: biker1956 on August 16, 2016, 01:00:33 PM
Last week I had Livernois Motorsports install a 160ยบ thermostat, new plugs, catted down pipes, 3 bar map and a tuner with a Stock, 91 octane and 93 octane programs in it. I already had a Airaid air cleaner & Dynomax mufflers on it.
It came off the Dyno with 355.30 HP and 380.42 Torque. I am happy with the outcome. I felt the difference right away.
Great to hear that you are loving the car. It should make your road trip far more exciting!
Excellent advice from livernois .
It would be ill advised to use any type of additive or ethanol blend as their tunes seem to not tolerate it well as opposed to some other tunes....14shocar had a bad experience and was repremanded by lms
"Race gas concentrate" is a brand and it would not be accurate to call it an additive. Its not an octane booster either....it is concentrated race fuel and its intended purpose is to be portable race fuel or a race fuel substitute or equivalent.....most importantly it does not change the stoichiometric mixture value of the fuel you have in your tank so if your tune is happy with the current mix then it will be happy with this product
But that being said you should follow your tuner's recommendation on what the tune is capable of accommodating.....all tunes are not equal and some can handle fuel and boost better than others
It is a pity though that they would advise against that product....perhaps a lack of testing on their part...you would be pleased with what the knock sensors show with it
I am using the 91 tune, 160 thermostat, 3 bar MAF, air raid. I have not had the opportunity to purchase the catted high flow downpipes from you or the rest of an exhaust system. I'm getting married in less than a month and it ain't cheap. it does pull harder than it did stock, no question about that.
I asked about the fuel additive because there is no pump within 100 miles of me that does 100+ or even 93 octane anymore. we used to have a 104 octane station 3 miles from my house but it was shut down when Inyokern airport in CA had its drag racing days cancelled due to the FAA getting involved in using airstrips as race tracks.
I could swear that I saw an honest to god clean and reliable octane booster that is orange looking and has a measuring device built into the bottle where you pour maybe 2 OZ of the stuff into 10 gallons of gas (ball parking these figures because I can't find the link or site at the moment, but that exact figure is not the point here) and it brings your octane up to 100 from 91. sounds like some kind of voodoo black magic to me so that's why I asked the community. I understand your stance on that, LMS. I always keep your tuner in my car and i'll go do a track day at the racetrack closest to me:
http://www.willowspringsraceway.com/ I can buy race gas there.
On that note, how do I go about switching to race tune and race fuel? what order do I do this gas and tune change?
