High knock control and temperatures on ktuner basemaps

[rayyanxnauman]

Hello! I hope everybody is fine and doing good. I ktuned my civic sedan 1.5 turbo 2-3 days back and initially I ran the car on starter 16.5 psi (aka stage 0) tune and yesterday I switched the tune and ran the car on starter 18 psi (aka stage 1). The first picture that I’ve attached is after switching to 18 psi map and starting the car (cold start) and the second picture I’ve attached is after driving the car for about 30-40km in heavy traffic and doing 5-6 WOT pulls from 10-105km/h since the road I did pulls on had many speed breakers. I did the pulls in both (D) drive and (S) sports mode. I’m really concerned about my car’s reliability that’s why I want to know what things should I monitor except the knock control and please do tell me that what should be the max temps of iat, ect and transmission before I lift my foot off the pedal to let it cool down?
One thing which I forgot to ask earlier is that can I use octane booster? I read somewhere on the internet that ktuned doesn’t recommend to use octane booster but since my knock control is going up after pulls even though I’m using the best available gas in my area, I am considering to start using octane boosters.
The outside temperature during the pulls was around 15 degrees celsius and my car is completely bone stock except the ktuner.

 

[Shankmeyster]

If you're concerned about reliability you probably shouldn't be running tunes.

 

[rayyanxnauman]

If you're concerned about reliability you probably shouldn't be running tunes.

I know the car will be most reliable on factory tune but to be very honest it’s boring that’s why I tuned it and I’m trying my best to not mess up things and be very careful with it. I only tune the car when I want to have some fun, other than that when I’m driving normally since it’s my daily driver, I drive it on factory tune or sometimes at starter 16.5 psi only.

 

[Chilly613]

There is a whole thread in regards to tuning; what people are running, their experiences and their issues. May give you better insight.

The Tuned CivicX Experience & Reliability Thread (for all models)

 

[gtman]

Chilly your link doesn't work so I'm just posting it again.

https://www.civicx.com/forum/thread...ience-reliability-thread-for-all-models.42361

 

[Chilly613]

Chilly your link doesn't work so I'm just posting it again.

https://www.civicx.com/forum/thread...ience-reliability-thread-for-all-models.42361

Weird, I even checked it before hand. Its fixed now, but thanks for posting it again!

 

[rayyanxnauman]

Chilly your link doesn't work so I'm just posting it again.

https://www.civicx.com/forum/thread...ience-reliability-thread-for-all-models.42361

I have gone through the reliability thread before getting the ktuner and I appreciate your efforts for the community. I just want someone to have a look on my temps and knock control and guide me about what should be the max temps and knock control before I should lift my foot off the pedal to let it cool down since I’m new to tuning and all this and I don’t want to blow up anything.

 

[LoneWolf77]

You should be monitoring IAT and IAT2 temps. To me it sounds like your turbo is getting heat soaked and pulling back timing. The intercoolers are quite small on these cars and that's my next upgrade plan.

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