Could octane rating allow more timing with out picking up a knock and this in turn change readings at your blm.
Being that VE is Volumetric Efficiency simply a representative of how the engine moves air. Wouldn't the factors in how the fuel burns ie compression ratio, compression chamber shape, cam specs etc demanding a certain fuel for the most efficient burn/combustion rate, be affected with the wrong fuel causing inaccurate VE tables, then switched to the correct fuel?
Meaning if tuning was done on wrong fuel, then you introduce the correct fuel that it could throw a wrench in your VE table? Obviously not a huge change, but a change none the less.
Or am I hypothetically digging too deep
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i doubt a couple degrees of knock retard (which is all you're going to get from an octane difference) is going to make a difference either way
you reach a point pretty quick obsessing about these minor things where the difference is well under 1% so you couldn't calibrate for it reliably anyway
but, that said, i had a timing table that was severly out in a few areas, and adding 8-10 degrees of timing to that area definitely tickled the wideband a bit. i'm talking 0.2-0.3 afr in open loop. maybe a few points of blm. nothing severe.
o2s seem to respond to heat to a degree too, and without enough timing that o2 is definitely going to get way hotter, and i've also heard the exhaust reaction with higher octane and race gas can be more intense, since it's burning so much more slowly, the reaction in the exhaust from unburned fuel due to insufficient timing can continue for longer
if 10* = .3 AFR, that is a lot of timing for a pretty small change in fueling, it's nothing i wouldn't mind the O2 sensor taking care of. 14.4 or 15.0 without O2 correction is not a big deal at all.
going from 87 to 93(for example), i don't see any more than 4 or 5* at most being able to be added without detonation, and that assumes those couple of degrees are helping improve output at all.
yeah exactly; and i can't even roughly state 10 degrees = 0.3 AFR, just because my engine did it doesn't mean someone else's will... it's just worthy of note, especially if your timing map is way out to lunch, it should be fixed before doing any fine tuning of fueling
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