The E85 Thread

[alexeiwoody]

Yeah. So handy.

For $750 that someone recently sold one for here - I'm sticking with the laptop for now.

[HardwareBoB]

Yeah. So handy.

For $750 that someone recently sold one for here - I'm sticking with the laptop for now.

for $750 you could buy a dedicated laptop, set it up only to do the tune in the car, and have enough change left over to buy another laptop in case that one broke, and then go out for a nice steak dinner for two.

If flex doesn't come to fruition on my car - I think I will consider this solution.

[tom_kauf]

Agreeed, the device itself isn't worth that. You basically pay for the tune and get the unit for next to nothing.

[alexeiwoody]

Yeah. So handy.

For $750 that someone recently sold one for here - I'm sticking with the laptop for now.

for $750 you could buy a dedicated laptop, set it up only to do the tune in the car, and have enough change left over to buy another laptop in case that one broke, and then go out for a nice steak dinner for two.

If flex doesn't come to fruition on my car - I think I will consider this solution.

Or you could just steal a nice carbon fibre topped lenovo off a family member who doesn't use it and save all the money. You really not need anything powerful to log or flash, almost anything will do. If yo want to tune your car, then you might need a little bit more oomph - for the 3D graphs etc

$750 is also the SH price, brand new is over $1k.

Agreeed, the device itself isn't worth that. You basically pay for the tune and get the unit for next to nothing.

Ah that makes much more sense.

[KiDo_Tuning]

Most EzyFladh units sell for under $400, its only people who want to pay for the Chiptorque 'tune' that pay drug money for them.

[sinno91]

I love having the EzyFlash Pro, makes changing the tune extremely easy and it's tiny no need to carry around a laptop. Although in saying how good it is I wouldn't have purchased one for the ridiculous price they want because of their "tune", I was fortunate enough that the old owner kept it when he traded the car. Matt found out I was locked by the chiptorque tune so I called the previous owned and he only lived 100km away so I went and picked it up for free, checked out his GEN5 GT while I was there to, GEN4 is much better IMO.

[jarrenowen]

are the stock subaru liberty gt lines e85 compatible to a specification, SAE 30R9 i think?

[KiDo_Tuning]

are the stock subaru liberty gt lines e85 compatible to a specification, SAE 30R9 i think?

Correct, no issues.

4 years and 107,000kms on E85, no issues

[cycleofabuse]

Just had Matt's flex tune done on my car. Wow, it's awesome. Highly recommend this to anyone. The mid range torque is sensational. Feels even smoother to drive too somehow.

[BillyCorgi]

Just had Matt's flex tune done on my car. Wow, it's awesome. Highly recommend this to anyone. The mid range torque is sensational. Feels even smoother to drive too somehow.

Wow, it's awesome
YES, agree
Highly recommend this to anyone
Agree
The mid range torque is sensational
YES, agree
Feels even smoother to drive too somehow
You might find yourself stalling the car a little more often as it runs so much smoother that you do not get the cues that the car is about to stall.

[shav]

Im still in two minds on whether I should get this flex tune done or not. On the odd occasion Im in town I could put the fuel in, but when Im just near home I dont have the servo's to fill up. Are any of you guys running eflex on occasions or full time?

[Surge]

I live about a 30 min drive from United, so I try and get more fuel when I'm nearby. I fill up 2 20lt containers as I fill up my tank.

So that means I can leave the extra fuel at home and get almost a complete fill out of it. Basically 1/2 my requirement to travel to get the fuel.

I went from running it part time to now running it full time.

[tom_kauf]

Im still in two minds on whether I should get this flex tune done or not. On the odd occasion Im in town I could put the fuel in, but when Im just near home I dont have the servo's to fill up. Are any of you guys running eflex on occasions or full time?

Yeah, I'd be interested in that too. Because last I heard from Matt about Flex tunes (about 6 months ago), full Flex Fuel is only possible on stock injectors (just the fuel pump upgraded). A max of 50% 98 is possible if running bigger injectors (or change the tune if you're stuck somewhere that doesn't sell E85).

So I guess most people not running E85 all the time are still on stock injectors?

We may be getting our first E85 Petrol Station (United is being refurbished now). But with only one within 400km, I won't be going to bigger injectors, even though the gains are well worth it from what I heard.

[kiwigene]

Been running E85 full time for nearly a year - but I have an auto, so can't have the benefits of full-flex apparently.
i.e. if I put P98 in it will dump more fuel in than necessary. (Matt can explain the reason why). I'm also on stock injectors.

I'm lucky because I have 2 Caltex and 1 United less than 10km from my home or my drive to/from work.

I am driving down to Melbourne in January and probably going down the east coast, so I'm almost definitely going to have to put P98 in it at some stage.
I will be interested to see how the car performs, although I'm probably going to baby it in [I] mode...

[cycleofabuse]

Im still in two minds on whether I should get this flex tune done or not. On the odd occasion Im in town I could put the fuel in, but when Im just near home I dont have the servo's to fill up. Are any of you guys running eflex on occasions or full time?

Yeah, I'd be interested in that too. Because last I heard from Matt about Flex tunes (about 6 months ago), full Flex Fuel is only possible on stock injectors (just the fuel pump upgraded). A max of 50% 98 is possible if running bigger injectors (or change the tune if you're stuck somewhere that doesn't sell E85).

So I guess most people not running E85 all the time are still on stock injectors?

We may be getting our first E85 Petrol Station (United is being refurbished now). But with only one within 400km, I won't be going to bigger injectors, even though the gains are well worth it from what I heard.

My understanding is that you can run anything from 100% 98 octane to 100% E85 without the need to retune. Stock injectors will suffice, just upgrade the fuel pump. So it's not a massive drama if you can't always access E85. Just throw some 98 in and the ECU will work out what's going on.