curious did your tune make the FA20 run smoother ?

[evoto86]

The FA20 is not the smoothest engine to rev out by any means, wandering if a tune helps or headers ?

[Grady]

Tune a little, E85 a lot!

[BRianZ 14]

For real man, that tune totally changes the car...no headers or exhaust required. Kills your gas mileage, but if you aren't driving this car with a lead foot you're not doing it right.

[Windycitystig]

Originally Posted by BRianZ 14

For real man, that tune totally changes the car...no headers or exhaust required. Kills your gas mileage, but if you aren't driving this car with a lead foot you're not doing it right.

Tune Only or tune and e85?

[evoto86]

Originally Posted by BRianZ 14

For real man, that tune totally changes the car...no headers or exhaust required. Kills your gas mileage, but if you aren't driving this car with a lead foot you're not doing it right.

I am that’s the problem I notice it’s biggest flaw and that’s how it delivers 200 ponies like a drunken sailor or somebody let a drunken sailor come up with the tune.

[BRianZ 14]

Originally Posted by jabrah7

Tune Only or tune and e85?

The OFT is a tune for e85 so its both.

[Trueweltall]

Originally Posted by BRianZ 14

For real man, that tune totally changes the car...no headers or exhaust required. Kills your gas mileage, but if you aren't driving this car with a lead foot you're not doing it right.

I get better average MPG with a tune. I/H/E.

[86 South Africa]

So i did a tune + headers + flexfuel all at once.

Headers help kill the torque dip - but there is no doubt the tune helped take full advantage of this. The flexfuel (and subsequently running on e85) was really cool... I’d highly recommend it because for a simple mod, and a small decrease in fuel economy you get a nice bit of extra shove/torque/power.

Personally highly recommended to do all 3 if you can - made my car so much nicer day-to-day and so much more fun when you want to drive a bit quicker

[Lantanafrs2]

The smoothest combo is header/tune/e85. With stock manifold even e85 felt a little abrupt down low.

[Jasonb]

On my 2017 manual, the v4 stage 2+ OFT tune made a huge difference.

[strat61caster]

eh, don't get too hyped yet

imho a tune specifically helps smooth out low revs low load conditions, the idle should be a bit smoother as well as everything below 3.5k
revving the fa20 out to 7.5k rpm will still sound and feel like it does before the tune/header, at least if you stay EL

And you'll likely pick up that weird vvt noise around 4k
http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59475

[GsxrMe]

Besides e85 giving more HP and nuking your MPG, I love e85. The car sounds different and running way smoother with it. My local station has e85 @ 74% year around and that's all I run. I might put 93 in her every bluemoon to just do it but it's a huge difference. It could have everything to do with the ignition timing being advance to the max when running E85.