Archive for category: performance fuel

Improving E85 Flex Fuel Performance for C6 LS2 Corvette

If you read our last blog post, you already know that OEM vehicle manufacturers aren’t concerned with including E85 flex fuel capability in their vehicles for performance reasons. This can be a major hurdle when you're trying to tune your vehicle to take advantage of the horsepower and torque gains...

How CAFE Standards Impact OEM Flex Fuel Performance

In our last blog post, we took a broad look at the problems with OEM implementation of E85 and flex fuel tuning. This week, we're going to get deeper and specifically look at why these problems exist. We know that the main reason that OEMs implement basic E85 functionality is...

No Need to Change Your Fuel Map with the PROFLEX Commander

The biggest problem with E85 tunes is that they don't automatically adapt to the real ethanol content that comes from the pump. The truth is that the real ethanol content of E85 fuel varies wildly from tank to tank, from pump to pump, and by time of year. This leads...

Better Fuel, Better Performance

Fuel, air, and spark are the three necessities for combustion. For decades, the best practice was simply getting more of each and the only ways to get more power and performance for a car was to increase air flow, burn more fuel, and get a better spark. Getting more air...