2016 OVTune Tacoma 3.5L Manual Transmission / Engine ECU Reflash

We should stop using ethanol

 

I want to like this many times. Corn fuel is only good for just a handful of folks. Mainly off road applications.

Since it uses more traditional fuels to produce and gives lower MPGs, who are we fooling?

 

The 90% of people who drive to the gas station and look for the lowest price and pick that one lol

 

Don't even get me going there.

Since it is a fixed / rigged market already, I'd vote / support a national fuel price and extreme limits on individual blends. There are reasons that standards exist. LoL!

 

Care to educate me a bit?
I'm truly ignorant about ethanol.

 

Take normal fuel. Dilute it 10% with corn juice. Then wonder why your truck runs like crap and the fuel system gets eaten from the inside out.

https://www.cycleworld.com/2013/07/...-know-about-ethanol-fuel-and-your-motorcycle/

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/running-on-corn-why-ethanol-is-bad-for-your-car/

 

We all typical use E10 fuel, which is 10% ethanol derived from corn. The ethanol separates out in about 3mo of non-use and turns acidic, which attacks common fuel components like nylon and less expensive rubbers. The cost of waste from bad fuel in cars, motorcycles, and marine applications has been an utter mess, like this Denso fuel pump recall. The emissions and fuel use to grow, transport, and refine corn is more than it saves. MBTE (methanol additive) before it was even worse.


And most notably, it is a form of corporate welfare to both the corn and refining industry.

 

You're gonna make me relapse with these links, I had a subscription to cycleworld from '97-'12.

 

I wouldn't wait, just call your dealership and ask if they've got parts and if you can go ahead and schedule it.

Sadly in most areas even the premiums still has up to 10% ethanol in it.

 

Not in iowa lol which is weird considering... all the corn here

We can get 87e0 almost everywhere.. or 91e0 in quite a few places.

 

Send some this way.

 

I find E free gas here in KY easily. All the corn is in the bourbon.

 

That's where it should be. We can surely make up for the surplus ethanol once they rinse the gas off of it.

 

You must be in central ky or western ky. On the east side it’s all crap.

 

I'm in Bardstown. I don't know about Louisville or Lexington, but out here its easy to get.

 

Well you are fortunate. The fuel around her is poor. I lost a fuel pump in my excursion and when I dropped the tank it had a lot of stainless shavings in it. Plastic tank had stainless steel shavings in it? Most likely from the refinery is all I can figure. Clean the tank replace the pump and filters and live with it. What can you do?

 

Same. I've tried everything. 3500 rpm it switches to smooth power, before that it's just crap.

It's not acis, I've tried turning it off, turning it to the same rpm, making it turn on at 600 rpm, can't stop it

I've tried different intake valve timing too.

I can give you some edits that stopped my rev hang for the most part, for daily driving anyways.

Hell i shifted at 7k earlier today and it didn't hang, which surprised me.

It still does it occasionally, but usually up hill when holding rpms for a moment before shifting.

Ie, going 3500 rpm in second for an entire hill then shifting to 3rd at the top, it will hang

And I've tried 89 non ethanol, still does it

 

Hells yeah!

 

you 04B41?

I can just send you the file instead of making an excel.

EDIT:

Ill go ahead and make the excel for the non b41 guys who may want to try it.

It can be applied to any file.

 

I am, thank you.

I guess ill have to update my VFtuner now . . .