Gherbo23
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Im looking to get either the prl flex fuel, or the w1 turbo from 27won and will be getting a dyno tune from Drob. I live 45 mins away from e85, so the plan was to get containers for the garage and fill those ethanol once a month. After doing some homework, I see that there are cvts with both of them, but I would do one or the other, at least for now. Price difference is around 900$, turbo obviously being more expensive, and its looking like e85 ran at e30 ish with the bolt ons I have can get me 250hp and 235 ish torque, and the turbo + flex should be 300/250, but what would the difference of just the turbo be? Would it be the same net gains as doing the e85 minus the 900$ difference? Not sure I want to do both since it is a daily, and obviously dont want to have to spend more than I need. Opinions? If it was your car what would you do?
One benefit that I may be wrong about with the turbo is that the peak torque is sat higher in the curves, which is of course safer on the rods, while the e85 has more low end torque. While a benefit to the ethanol would be cooler temps under the hood due to cooler combustion (could be wrong here too, things on paper dont always equal IRL). Not sure if any of this will make a difference when there's a custom tune vs basemap since curves will be tuned anyway. Sorry if these are newb questions, I just want to be sure Im doing things the right way the first time.
Current relevant mods to this question:
RV6 catless DP
Takeda SRI
Ktune running tsp s1 right now
Hasport 62a RMM (great mod for the money for those that havent done it yet)
One benefit that I may be wrong about with the turbo is that the peak torque is sat higher in the curves, which is of course safer on the rods, while the e85 has more low end torque. While a benefit to the ethanol would be cooler temps under the hood due to cooler combustion (could be wrong here too, things on paper dont always equal IRL). Not sure if any of this will make a difference when there's a custom tune vs basemap since curves will be tuned anyway. Sorry if these are newb questions, I just want to be sure Im doing things the right way the first time.
Current relevant mods to this question:
RV6 catless DP
Takeda SRI
Ktune running tsp s1 right now
Hasport 62a RMM (great mod for the money for those that havent done it yet)
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