[2slo4u]

Thanks for posting. Good read.

 

[2slo4u]

I'm glad my FRS and the Civic will be able to use the same motor oil (0w20). I wonder how using higher octane gas would help. Obviously the combustion would and should be little different. I'm guessing tuning would have to be involved?

 

[2slo4u]

It wouldn't. The ecu would compensate for the higher octane automatically. The only "benefit" is higher detergent concentration.

In the future, however, high output tunes that advance timing could require higher octane or even E85.

I do hope it wouldn't need a tune to take advantage of the higher octane. I do have a few plans to gain little power here and there. I hope there will be an OFT (Open Flash Tablet) for this car that will be plug and play on downloadable tunes.