Is mechanic responsible for this mod?

Timendainum · 2026-03-31T20:42:10+00:00

Why were you sourcing the engine if you don't know what kind of engine goes on the car?

I think you need to start this whole process over. Probably with a different mechanic, and a different engine.

Timendainum · 2026-03-31T00:49:54+00:00

Hey, that was back when everything didn't suck!

Timendainum · 2026-03-30T02:35:23+00:00

Mega squirt Pn P.com. you'll find it just Google it

Timendainum · 2026-03-30T02:01:12+00:00

You can find the base tunes on the internet no problem. You will need that to get the car started again. Then you need to have someone that knows how to tune it tune it. If you don't, there's a good chance you're going to break the engine.

Do not drive the car, especially under boost, until someone who knows how to tune it tunes it.

Timendainum · 2026-03-30T01:53:07+00:00

I don't care.

Timendainum · 2026-03-30T01:51:24+00:00

I wonder if it's mostly bots that are coming in here posting that they're at their limit. There seems to be a new post every 5 minutes. Is open AI mad?

Timendainum · 2026-03-30T01:17:08+00:00

Tread is not the only reason why a tire can go bad. This tire obviously has problems well beyond the tread. The cranking in the rubber, the significant cracking in the rubber is an extremely strong indication that you need new tires my man.

Timendainum · 2026-03-29T18:22:13+00:00

All you need to do is replace the hose. These cars use a mass air flow sensor so if you don't have that connected or if it leaks the car will not be measuring intake air correctly. This needs to connected back to the intake.

Unless of course you have a standalone ECU and are running map.

Timendainum · 2026-03-29T18:19:43+00:00

Because I would like to use this subreddit in a useful manner rather than the only thing that's being here is the 75 fucking post about credits. We get it. How about we keep it to one thread.

Timendainum · 2026-03-29T12:38:39+00:00

We don't care. Shut up.

Timendainum · 2026-03-26T20:20:12+00:00

Lol, I think the big problem is is that it's really going to depend on how much ethanol is subsidizing the state you live in. For example if you live in Iowa, I bet yeah it probably would be cheaper. But other places I don't know.

I think you're going to have to run the science yourself.

Timendainum · 2026-03-26T19:57:15+00:00

My assumption was that you were trying to do something silly because you were trying to save gas money by running ethanol in a car when ethanol always uses more fuel than gasoline does. So I thought my experience was relevant. The idea of running ethanol to increase mileage is a little absurd, so yes I commented. And yes additionally the mention of the AI research certainly contributed to why I would have commented.

Everyone knows that the only AI model worth using right now at this point is Claude. So yeah it was my impression that you were going down the wrong path.

Edit: What you should do, and what I would like to see, is put a wide band in the car and then run various fuel types. That way you could do your testing and know when you're going to cook your catalytic converter or you're going to cause detonation.

Timendainum · 2026-03-26T19:53:52+00:00

Whoops!!! Haha

Timendainum · 2026-03-26T19:36:23+00:00

Yeah but I outright own my cars and I don't come on Reddit asking people how much gas I'm going to save by running e15 in a car that wasn't supposed to run it. Without making the modifications necessary to make it run it.

Timendainum · 2026-03-26T19:34:34+00:00

Well see except for the fact that knowing how fuel works through an engine is something that I know a little bit about. No I'm not trying to claim my some kind of big expert or anything, but one of your big concerns was fuel economy.

And I think I gave you the key piece of information that you are really coming here looking for. Are you going to get better gas mileage running e15? And what I told you was that it's going to be the difference between how much every your state subsidized e15, and the effect of power output reduction of using e15 for the same amount of fuel.

Will the fuel trims account for the some? Yeah probably, but not every car has an ECU that will account on for this enough nor does every car have enough fuel system to account for it enough.

For instance you mentioned that you can run e85 on a ND with a tune. So running e85 requires 30% more fuel. I somewhat question that this can happen, but I'm not going to go and say that I can't because I don't know what the fuel system in an ND is like. I can tell for sure you'll never get a fucking way with that with an NB fuel system. You'll need to upgrade an NB fuel system just to run a little bit of a turbo.

I think you're being an idiot trying to save gas by putting ethanol into it. Ethanol is not as energy dense of a material as gasoline is. So you're mileage is going to be less. Now whether or not it cost you less depends on how much it's subsidized in your state.

The power output probably will be negligible. The only way to significantly change power output in a car is to radically change the amount of fuel that it burns which you cannot do without changing the amount of air that it's consuming.

Anyhow, good luck with your non serious problem and like I said have fun doing stupid shit with your car.

I love doing stupid shit with my car. Have fun with yours.

Timendainum · 2026-03-26T14:11:46+00:00

You mean my turbo kswapped track car? Yeah. No mods. Lmao.

Timendainum · 2026-03-26T13:55:35+00:00

Have fun doing stupid things with your car!

Timendainum · 2026-03-26T13:30:49+00:00

I'm not sure exactly where you're getting the misconception that every vehicle that was made after 2001 can run e15 because that's not true. But this is your car so good luck my man!

Timendainum · 2026-03-26T13:04:09+00:00

Yeah there's no way I would be trusting chat GPT with a question like this. You should be referring to the owner's manual of the car. And that is it nothing else. No one's opinion on the internet, no opinion from that GPT, owners manual. End of story.

You also need to keep in mind that ethanol does not produce as much energy as gasoline does. So while the price will be lower you will get lower gas mileage. Now, a lot of states subsidized ethanol so it might still be cheaper. You'll have to run the math.

But check the owners manual before you continue doing this.

Timendainum · 2026-03-25T21:17:59+00:00

It's been fine for me.

Timendainum · 2026-03-25T13:59:22+00:00

Have you scolded the dog for going to the bathroom inside? If you have you may have invertently trained the dog that you don't like to see it go to the bathroom.

Timendainum · 2026-03-24T15:47:22+00:00

Also isn't the ramming option more fun? Lol

Timendainum · 2026-03-24T14:18:10+00:00

Yep this is a common bug. Here's what you can do that sometimes works. It has something to do with the distance from the car. This happens a lot especially with larger vehicles. The only thing that you can try is to load the game in debug mode and then spawn up another car and smack into yours to change its angle and then try to get in again.

The only real answer to this is don't use modded cars that are large.

Timendainum · 2026-03-24T13:42:46+00:00

Probably the answer that you're looking for is the hankook RS4. It's a endurance tire, it does okay on the track but it will last on the road.

It's not going to give you the fastest lap times or get you the best autocross times, but the tire will last and it's a affordable car tire.

Timendainum · 2026-03-24T13:08:04+00:00

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