E30 Tune?

[draza74]

So I was dicking around and decided to try MAPerformances E30 tune.
I got it for free so I decided why not. I know their tunes aren't the greatest but I thought why not.
I will say the thing seems to pull harder than my 93 Data logged Strat tune, so that being said I CAN'T WAIT for my Strat Data logged E30 tune.

But.. there was one concern that I had..
My car seemed like it was over heating.. I think?
On the freeway after doing a handful of pulls, at one point I realized.. the heat isn't on and there is heat coming from the front of the car towards me. It didn't get really hot, it just felt like if I had the heat on fan setting one on defrost or whatever.
I didn't smell any burning except at one point I thought I could smell the Ethanol burning but it was VERY VERY faint.
I stopped somewhere and looked underneath. It didn't feel that hot underneath and I didn't smell anything..
Is this normal?

IIRC Ethanol burns hotter? But yeah it got pretty warm in the cab and it was fairly chilly outside too (40-50F range + rain).

As for how much I put.
I only put 3.5 gallons of E85 in and by that point I was full.

 

[PowerDemon]

I have never experienced that personally. But I have not run ethanol before. I also have never heard of that happening before either. Did you look at the coolant temp on your accessport?

 

[draza74]

I have never experienced that personally. But I have not run ethanol before. I also have never heard of that happening before either. Did you look at the coolant temp on your accessport?

I didn't but I should have. Once the weather gets good, ill go down for more Eth and get some in a can and rerun it again and really monitor things.
I checked for errors on my AP aswell and got nothing.

 

[PowerDemon]

Yeah, I would hope that it's fine. Just don't trust that coolant gauge lol that thing lies like crazy. It was indicating 200*F and when I was JB4 it regularly showed 220-230*F.

 

[El_bigote_AJ]

Factory gauge is designed to peg a 200 from say 180 to 230, it’s so the typical owner Don’t see the gauge moving and worry. If it going outside of the normal operating windows is when it moves

 

[draza74]

The only thing I could think of was since I just threw E85 on top of my 93 it didn't get properly mixed?
So I was mostly burning 93 on a E30 tune..?

I read that someone hit near 29 psi on this tune but I only managed to hit 27.8 so.. /shrug

 

[El_bigote_AJ]

thats IAT related though... they could have had higher ambient temps at 29. 29 with minimal timing is not better that 27 with more timing.

 

[joneze93tsi]

Probably heated up your kerfluter.

 

[draza74]

Is it safe to use E30 while using my 93 tune?
My 93 tune is for when I want crackles or flames.

 

[Handguns4heaRTs]

Ethanol burns COOLER

 

[draza74]

Is it possible since ethanol burns cooler and its cold outside that my car is auto kicking on the heater?
When i'm driving the car hard I can feel heat coming from the vents.
/shrug

 

[jimlloyd40]

Is it possible since ethanol burns cooler and its cold outside that my car is auto kicking on the heater?
When i'm driving the car hard I can feel heat coming from the vents.
/shrug

You must have an option that no one else has.

 

[joneze93tsi]

My head hurts

 

[aaronc7]

I have my exhaust routed into the cabin, on E85 it's like the A/C is on max blast, it's great.

 

[draza74]

Thanks guys lmao