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Old Oct 17, 2009 | 11:02 AM
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Originally Posted by JDraper
I'm tuned on '93. If you still have your knock sensors fully on, you might see an improvement using 93 over 91 if your car pulls timing on 91. The knock sensors in the Mach are oversensitive from the factory, so they pull timing earlier than they should. I've got my sensors dialed back in a tune, so I don't see timing being pulled now.
hmm wonder if this is why my car pulls really hard sometimes and others it seems to lay back a little.
Old Oct 17, 2009 | 12:55 PM
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Originally Posted by JDraper
I'm tuned on '93. If you still have your knock sensors fully on, you might see an improvement using 93 over 91 if your car pulls timing on 91. The knock sensors in the Mach are oversensitive from the factory, so they pull timing earlier than they should. I've got my sensors dialed back in a tune, so I don't see timing being pulled now.
The knock sensor thing...being that I only use 93, is that something my Diablo handheld could address? Like I G Joe, I also notice my car pulls much harder sometimes...could what you're referring to be a reason? Thx a bunch.
Old Oct 17, 2009 | 02:06 PM
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i hardly drive on the hwy, avg about 12MPG on a 10 mile trip to work w/about 10 stop lights. and i love the sound of the BOV
Old Oct 17, 2009 | 02:10 PM
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Originally Posted by rygi23
The knock sensor thing...being that I only use 93, is that something my Diablo handheld could address? Like I G Joe, I also notice my car pulls much harder sometimes...could what you're referring to be a reason? Thx a bunch.
Diablo itself can't turn 'em off, you need someone to write you a custom tune that you can install with the Diablo. I also have a Diablosport Predator, and I had a tune written by RWTD that dialed the sensors back. I was dropping about 30 hp when the knock sensors retarded the timing. Attached is a dyno sheet I did before I had the knock sensors de-tuned. The tuner said the drop in power starting at around 5500 rpm was the knock sensors dialing back the timing. The second dyno sheet was done after I had the knock sensors dialed back. Notice there is no drop in power like in the first run. Dialing back the knock sensors also allowed us to run a little more timing, which gave me a little better power. The a/f ratio was also cleaned up with the custom tune.


Before knock sensors dialed back. This is on a modified Diablo R50D tune:


This was after the knock sensors were dialed back. This is on a RWTD custom tune:

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