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Hi all,
I'm newly registered here after being a long-time lurker and learner. I've been using Phearable 1.5 non-SI for a few weeks on my essentially FBO Civic and wanted to share my impressions. Overall I'm having a great time with the tune but improving the handling dynamics of the car went a long way in letting me fully enjoy it.
2020 Civic Hatch EX-L CVT
First off, performance-related mods/changes on my car:
PRL Cobra CAI Street, PRL Intercooler (stock charge pipes), PRL FP/DP combo catted
Civic Si Rear Sway Bar, CTR RMM, DC Sports Front Strut Bar, CTR Subframe Brace, BF-Goodrich Comp 2 A/S Plus tires
Unity Performance Steering wheel
On to the review:
-Compared to using stock even with all these Bolt-ons, difference is night and day. There's no jerkiness with the car whatsoever after tuning and it makes for a really confident driving experience. I like that there's no sudden bursts of unexpected power, the delivery is linear and easy to control. Doing pulls is super fun and I don't have to worry about the power lag when I need to do a quick lane change, etc. The CVT feels very responsive as long as you apply the right amount of throttle and the "shifts" are smooth and quick. In a good pull the car really throws you back into your seat, and the power stays consistent pull after pull.
-When I first used the tune, I didn't have any of the handling mods, and honestly, the car couldn't make use of the power properly. It was pretty easy to spin the tires and pushing the car hard just resulted in annoying amounts of torque steer. I replaced the stock tires with BF-Goodrich Comp 2 A/S Plus and added all the handling mods, and I'm able to really floor it or launch out of corners now and it feels amazing. I don't do this too often but admittedly it's become so fun that it's becoming hard to resist
-Some say the low end is soft but I haven't had much of an issue there. This car kinda takes a heavy foot but if you give it enough throttle you can get into the optimal power band pretty quickly and the low end is more than enough for slower city driving. Getting a better RMM helped me a lot, the stock CVT RMM has a ridiculous amount of slop in the lower gears and it makes stop and go acceleration a pain with jerky motions. With the CTR RMM, the tune has no issues for me with brake and go situations. Maybe downpipe is helping too for the faster spool. I guess I would say this tune isn't that "sensitive" but it's very controllable once you get used to it.
-I've only used Shell 91 fuel with the tune but my knock control doesn't really exceed .65. STFT is usually +-5 with occasional spikes which I believe is normal. LTFT is within +-3 with no spikes. I've used map 2 and map 3 but I feel that these maps are quite close in performance. On Map 2 I was already boosting above 23 psi. I just keep it on Map 3 now since to my knowledge it should still be safe for the car.
-Can't speak about longevity since I haven't driven enough miles tuned on it, but we'll see. Based on the datalogs I don't think there should be any issues.
Anyways that's all I have to say I think. This is my first time actually modding/tuning a car (big thank you to everyone here for the wealth good information) so I don't really have other tunes to compare to but I don't think I'll be changing from this one.
I'm newly registered here after being a long-time lurker and learner. I've been using Phearable 1.5 non-SI for a few weeks on my essentially FBO Civic and wanted to share my impressions. Overall I'm having a great time with the tune but improving the handling dynamics of the car went a long way in letting me fully enjoy it.
2020 Civic Hatch EX-L CVT
First off, performance-related mods/changes on my car:
PRL Cobra CAI Street, PRL Intercooler (stock charge pipes), PRL FP/DP combo catted
Civic Si Rear Sway Bar, CTR RMM, DC Sports Front Strut Bar, CTR Subframe Brace, BF-Goodrich Comp 2 A/S Plus tires
Unity Performance Steering wheel
On to the review:
-Compared to using stock even with all these Bolt-ons, difference is night and day. There's no jerkiness with the car whatsoever after tuning and it makes for a really confident driving experience. I like that there's no sudden bursts of unexpected power, the delivery is linear and easy to control. Doing pulls is super fun and I don't have to worry about the power lag when I need to do a quick lane change, etc. The CVT feels very responsive as long as you apply the right amount of throttle and the "shifts" are smooth and quick. In a good pull the car really throws you back into your seat, and the power stays consistent pull after pull.
-When I first used the tune, I didn't have any of the handling mods, and honestly, the car couldn't make use of the power properly. It was pretty easy to spin the tires and pushing the car hard just resulted in annoying amounts of torque steer. I replaced the stock tires with BF-Goodrich Comp 2 A/S Plus and added all the handling mods, and I'm able to really floor it or launch out of corners now and it feels amazing. I don't do this too often but admittedly it's become so fun that it's becoming hard to resist
-Some say the low end is soft but I haven't had much of an issue there. This car kinda takes a heavy foot but if you give it enough throttle you can get into the optimal power band pretty quickly and the low end is more than enough for slower city driving. Getting a better RMM helped me a lot, the stock CVT RMM has a ridiculous amount of slop in the lower gears and it makes stop and go acceleration a pain with jerky motions. With the CTR RMM, the tune has no issues for me with brake and go situations. Maybe downpipe is helping too for the faster spool. I guess I would say this tune isn't that "sensitive" but it's very controllable once you get used to it.
-I've only used Shell 91 fuel with the tune but my knock control doesn't really exceed .65. STFT is usually +-5 with occasional spikes which I believe is normal. LTFT is within +-3 with no spikes. I've used map 2 and map 3 but I feel that these maps are quite close in performance. On Map 2 I was already boosting above 23 psi. I just keep it on Map 3 now since to my knowledge it should still be safe for the car.
-Can't speak about longevity since I haven't driven enough miles tuned on it, but we'll see. Based on the datalogs I don't think there should be any issues.
Anyways that's all I have to say I think. This is my first time actually modding/tuning a car (big thank you to everyone here for the wealth good information) so I don't really have other tunes to compare to but I don't think I'll be changing from this one.
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