wouldnt the last tuner have a bit advantage since the ones before did all the hard work ?

 

thats a sweet idea! i saw only let ONE tuner in the room at a time to keep it fair and i dont know much about honda ecu's but can you just flash it back to stock every time?

 

Tuning will only be done by an Vafc and they can play with timing if they like! The Vafc will be reset to zero for each tuner!

 

Sounds cool, wish I knew how to tune lol

 

+1

 

Well I will be there watching air/fuel readings and if someone is running extremly lean i will let them know! And if they blow it up they will get the worst tuner award and leave with a nice worst tuner trophy! This will just be an all out fun event! And have people from all over the tampa bay area get to know each other! Even other shops! Its allways good to make friends with other shops! helps everyone out in the long run!
Thanks, Carter

 

Carter,

I know you are trying to run a fun event however, this kind of challenge is honestly not a smart idea. Why?

I am guessing the boost level will have to be the same for all tuners correct?

Regardless the facts are:

Runing the motor lean is not going to kill the motor during this event, detonation due to too much spark advance will be the issue at hand.

Sitting on the sidelines while some one else tries to extract power out of a vehicle & simply monitoring the a/f ratios is not going to stop detonation, you can have a "safe" a/f ratio & still have knock conditions.

The tuner who has the vehicle first has the greatest advantage. Why?
Lets say the motor is put through several passes by the first tuner with so much detonation it causes enough damage to effect the power output of the motor... At this point the contest is no longer a contest.

The event will become more of a test of seeing how much abuse the motor can handle before a component fails such as a ringland...

In my opinion it would be a waste of time to run such an event.

 

i cant think of anything more fun then someone blowing up a honda....but hey, thats just me lol

 

The motor probably won't "blow up" it will more then likely loose a ringland, sleeve or headgasket before throwing a rod & displaying real carnage.

 

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