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  1. ZFGracing

    ZFG Racing Tune Review

    It is a different shift strategy cold. In sport mode below a certain tempature it won't even attempt to us the aggressive trans tune. Then above a certain temperature but below about 145 degrees it's using different parts of the tables. After that it's all in the correct tables. You are looking...
  2. ZFGracing

    What am I hearing?

    Meh not really, what's crazy is seeing how many different ways ford chooses the slice the cake in terms of the logic that's available vs what and how it was used. One type of ecoboost will use a table one way, the next won't even use it all. Granted on the newer mg1cs036 and mg1cs055 they really...
  3. ZFGracing

    What am I hearing?

    New ecu new, turbos, different oem calibators on the dyno cell, new strategy all together who knows. I'm sure that they had their reasons or that's just how the calibration of the sensors was done. That's why I typically don't modify the sensor calibrations but making more sensitive should help...
  4. ZFGracing

    What am I hearing?

    So here is the log, you can see were are logging all 6 cylinders for knock and the overall average as it's using average mode at this RPM. You can see KOM is 1.0. Spark is 15 to 16 degrees. the over knock correction is 2.6* meaning it's adding timing over the borderline base and each cylinder is...
  5. ZFGracing

    What am I hearing?

    Send me another log with video so i can listen with head phones as it doesn't really come through on the phone speaker, and I'll look at the actual knock thresholds to see if your calibration is different than others, I don't typically go into that but do know it's changed over time. I also want...
  6. ZFGracing

    What am I hearing?

    I would still do the ic the upsides are way more than the down. If you leave the shutters I started keeping them closed at lower loads like factory to help that. And the stock boost until warm up is actually their Factory as well but we do a couple things to hold it back a little more than...
  7. ZFGracing

    What am I hearing?

    Right, and that was my point earlier. The tune is essentially totally stock in the load range that he's hearing the noise in. The stock tune will do the same thing once kom reaches 1.0 and the load conditions are met. That doesn't make it right but also it shouldn't really going to have any...
  8. ZFGracing

    What am I hearing?

    There is a big difference between the naked ear can hear in the car and what the knock sensor picks up. When I say audible knock I'm referring to what can be heard in the car which is above and beyond what the knock sensor can pick up. In order to get to that point you typically have to be maxed...
  9. ZFGracing

    What am I hearing?

    Send another log then, the only other thing I would questions is the reliably of the knock sensor data on your car. I've never seen issues with knock sensors before in terms of them being bad or not picking up knock but there is anyways a possibility of that. Sent from my SM-S938U1 using Tapatalk
  10. ZFGracing

    What am I hearing?

    Some kind of rattle but doesn't sound like knock. Knock is more of a lose change in a pipe sound. As I've started multiple times though your logs show 0 sign of actual spark knock and very minimal spark correction, and a I explained before the tune uses stock spark borderline tables and stock...
  11. ZFGracing

    ZFG Racing Tune Review

    In our tune, that lightly loaded area is going to be the stock borderline spark table and cylinder pressure limit no need to modify those areas tuning wise. Sent from my SM-S938U1 using Tapatalk
  12. ZFGracing

    ZFG Racing Tune Review

    To be honest that's why we do normal mode with a different transmission profile compared to sport mode. I don't expect anyone to drive in sport mode full time, I wouldn't even on stock tune. To keep up with the power levels and get the good ets the trans tune has to be fast and firm the more...
  13. ZFGracing

    ZFG Racing Tune Review

    It's extremely hard to have actual audible knock in these, the narcologic is capable of pulling over 10 degrees of timing. A lot of people mistake other things for "audible knock". I just reviewed your logs and you are looking at a spark correction less than -3 degrees which is totally normal...
  14. ZFGracing

    World's Quickest and Fastest **Stock Turbo** 3.0L Explorer 10.22 @ 129.5 MPH and Quickest and Fastest **Stock Turbo** 3.0L Explorer ST 10.85 @ 123 MPH

    yeah it should be able to do pretty decent. few things to try on the stock turbos yet though.
  15. ZFGracing

    World's Quickest and Fastest **Stock Turbo** 3.0L Explorer 10.22 @ 129.5 MPH and Quickest and Fastest **Stock Turbo** 3.0L Explorer ST 10.85 @ 123 MPH

    WE ALL WANTED TO SEE IT… AND NOW WE HAVE THE ANSWER What happens when you take weight reduction seriously on a PIU to match the coemption, keep the stock turbos, and pair it with the best EcoBoost tuning in the industry? THIS. Brad Hampton absolutely DEMOLISHED the stock-turbo PIU record...
  16. ZFGracing

    ***Stock turbo record update*** 10.85 @123

    World's quickest and fastest stock turbo Explorer ST checking in! This is what a 3 l Explorer can do with an easily achievable amount of weight reduction, ie seats, spare tire etc. I just wanted to post this as kind of a reminder of what is achievable for an average person who is willing to...
  17. ZFGracing

    ZFG Racing Tune Review

    We can't change the default drive mode unfortunately that comes from the ABS/ Terrain module. Sent from my SM-S938U1 using Tapatalk
  18. ZFGracing

    Stock Fuel System Full e85 vs Nostrum Stage X Full e85

    Stage 2 nostrum with stock turbos and fbo. Sent from my SM-S938U1 using Tapatalk
  19. ZFGracing

    Built Engine Update: Addressing Main Cap Instability in the Nano EcoBoost

    Yep and my philosophy is the oem parts are the best parts until proven otherwise. I'm not about throwing parts at stuff without good reasons. Good example is on the 3.5l how everyone thinks the open deck is bad and does a css, yeah sure the css helps, but we are sitting at 880 awhp without one...


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