Originally Posted by rcompart
If you're running with the cats, you probably just killed them if you ran a whole tank through it. 110 is leaded fuel whereas 109 and lower is unleaded. As far as any performance gains, I'm guessing it was just a placebo effect and to be honest, the higher octane fuel burns a lot cooler so I'm surprised that it didn't actually degrade the performance. Our computers aren't set to advance/retard timing based on a closed loop feed from the knock sensors. The ignition maps are written with timing built in and then it adds/removes timing +/- based on IAT, ECT and load. It will pull timing based on the knock sensor inputs but not add it back in if they're not picking anything up.
Sorry to burst your bubble champ.
I know it's a different animal, and that it isn't a dyno tune but with my turbo diesel truck we can plug into the OBDII and tune/program for stock/mild/tow/race, etc. I wish we could do this with our 6's, but with our own custom tunes. So if you wanted to go to the track, you could fill up the day before and reprogram (add timing) for some better fuel; for example VP100(aka streetblaze 100). Then plug back in afterwards and go back to less expensive pump gas. I certainly don't know how it all works as you do rcompart(Rudy?) but is this possible? Having our own personal portable tuner with 2 custom tunes(specifically for the mods we happen to have) would be great. Just like it's great in our turbo diesel trucks. And they're very affordable; perhaps the millions of trucks out there makes this possible. Can you make one of these for all of us? kidding! Bob