Test & Tune: 2019 Subaru WRX | 91-Octane vs E85

What’s your poison? Do you prefer wine or tequila? Both have their place. Wine will make you feel relaxed. Due to its lower alcohol content, wine can deliver an extended range and can be found much easier than its high-alcohol alternative. 91-octane pump gas is the wine of fuel options. […]

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DTE Systems | New Tuning Solution

There used to be a time when tuning consisted of using a screwdriver to change jets in the carburetor and reading spark plugs to determine air/fuel ratios. Today, aftermarket companies offer tuning solutions that vary from stand-alone ECUs, to ECU reflash that can quickly be done by just about any […]

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Performance Tech | Compression Ratio 101 Part:1

Optimizing an engine’s compression ratio for the type of fuel and the boost levels (forced induction applications) that will be used can result in additional power, increased torque and improved fuel economy. As you may already be aware of, some engines are optimized from the factory to run on higher-octane […]

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Performance Tech | CAN-Bus 101

If you are old enough to have used computers before the invention of the USB port, you probably really appreciate USB. Before USB, hooking up any external device to your computer required the assignment of a hexadecimal address to a serial port or parallel port that needed to have unique […]

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