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Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0
I agree about that. There should always be a market for off-road use for enthusiasts. I also think California and other areas have grown more reasonable with the average user by not requiring smog until eight years on new cars and then only requiring a readiness check. That, and I think they have done a lot to open up a path for legal modifications with their CARB program. A lot of that has to do with ECUTEK making it possible to create CARB tunes. I think they could do more to allow for more legal modifications by making the process cheaper and faster, but it is what it is.
Manufacturers should do some flex-fuel fuel tunes/kits. I also think it would be nice if manufacturers produced cars with flex fuel and D4S as standard. Audi TTRS and the Mustang has dual injection. I don’t know who else, but flex fuel and D4S should be standard on sports cars, so it would be easier to pass FI kits through CARB with larger port injectors and having a legal flex fuel option. The EPA and CARB doesn’t have a problem with 707hp Hellcats when it comes from the factory, so all they need are products that have been properly certified.
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The problem with this is the system is setup for manufacturers and not for small shops to build, certify and sell something like a flex fuel kit. You would need to provide test data for every model and every model year you intend to sell the kit for regardless if there were actually any changes to the base car from year to year. So for someone like Ptuning certifying a flex fuel kit for carb, they would have to provide emission test data for 8 years the car was run even though there were basically no changes to the engines from 13-16’ and 17-20’. It’s just not financially feasible.