If your car is literally "nose diving" with 10 counts of knock, then you have other issues.

 

Two things:

1. a car can nose dive with 10 counts of knock. If 3 counts pull one degree, then 10 will pull 3 degrees. You are WOT @ 6000 rpm, your target map is 9 degrees and you get 10 counts of knock. You just had your timing pulled back to 6 degrees. That will cost you power.

2. Why would someone race an Evo on pump gas? When I am on the road course I am running 100 octane on my Evo. I am sorry but running 93 octane on the road course is just asking for trouble. On 100 octane you can run stock timing and 11.5:1 AFR w/o knock.

Personally, I tune my 93 octane maps for the occasional WOT run and to learn how to tune. To me the process is more important than the end result.

 

wow mind blowing!!

 

Eh, I guess we just have different definitions of "nose dive." When I was running the "smart" xede, I would occasionally get a single audible ping @ WOT and the car would nose-dive for sure. With a KS of 10, which has happened when I'm occasionally trying new things, you can feel it slack up a bit, but it doesn't fall on its face like I've experienced with the Xede screwing things up.

Besides, I wonder how many people have tuned their cars out well in 3rd and then gone out and lugged it through the RPM band in 4th and watched what the ECU thinks of it

 

I tuned the car for 0-3 counts it rarely goes higher anymore, now I can beat on the car and not worry about it even when hot lapping it.

 

So i just read my what i thought was stock Rom today. This is clearly not stock right?. Car is completely stock and was so when i recieved it. Where exactly should i go to find stock Rom image?

Thanks,

Jimmy

 

http://evoecu.logic.net/wiki/Downloads

The link above has all of the stock roms.