In your opinion, however, I'm not poisoning my engine with a piggyback device. I have a balanced tune.
I'd be remiss if I didn't ask you just how incredibly new to modifications on force inducted vehicles you are? Maybe I'm the fool for asking this, afterall, you boast your estimated 0-60 times, and your xpel protection/tint and ceramic coating (as modifications) in your signature LOL.
Firstly, how balanced do you really feel your tune is ? The ECU isn't fully unlocked, hopefully you can see the collapsing argument you've created for yourself here... lol.
But for the sake of time savings, lets imagine for a second that I've worked in the industry for over 15 years, and have had fully built and tuned everything supercharged and turbocharged in that time frame, which gives me a fantastic position to speak on the importance of colder heat range
spark plugs and how they can both help you produce more power, but also help protect your investment.
That balanced tune of yours, which is far from it, given it isn't a road or dyno tune, but rather a file that is copy pasted over and over, is no better than the poison piggy backs you look down on.
Do you understand the concept of spark advance? Or how it directly relates to the functionality of your chosen
spark plugs, their heat range, and the gap of those plugs? Imagine for a second that a colder plug allows you to safety run more timing, boost, or both, the 2 major aspects of the internal combustion process in your engine that produces horse power.
Imagine that hardly balanced tune of yours, is currently causing your ECU to pull timing it otherwise wouldn't have to pull if you were running the appropriate plugs. If it is, and it is, then its robbing you of power it otherwise wouldn't have too if you simply bought the $60
spark plugs. We have this sensor on our block called a knock sensor, and its soul purpose is to listen for knock retard which is the sound made by predetonation in the chamber, and to alert the ECU when it happens so it can pull timing from your engine to avoid catastrophic failure. I can promise you, the math is unquestionable, and you're not reinventing the science of internal combustion dude, so the fact remains that the only thing you're doing besides saving yourself $60 on
spark plugs is robbing yourself on power, and reliability. I do enjoy the humor involved in your argument against the small monetary cost of
spark plugs while talking about how much better your more expensive tune is. Your tune is the equivalent of a canned tune you get on a Cobb Accessport for any platform they support, and its nothing to be gloating about.
But hey, thankfully for you, I had 3 different vehicles write my 2018 GT LTD off a month ago. It only had 2800 kms on the unharmed engine, so when your balanced tune and your crusade to prove the last 20 years of forced induction theory incorrect simply because you don't want to admit your wrong eventually causes you to predetonate one too many times, there will be one waiting. And hey, you'll already have $60 saved up towards the costs of replacement! Do you want the name of the salvage yard now or ?
from the factory. Completely stock Stingers have reported plug & coil issues with gaps that bad, and any added boost would just exaggerate those problems.
Hopefully your luck doesnt run out and I wish you the best.
That’s unusual and only about 30-40whp more than stock Stingers. Must be a very mild tune and hope it didn’t cost you much. It’s also weird you have a different correction factor on each dyno, and seems like your dyno tech is playing games or something.
