View Single Post
      02-26-2009, 07:44 PM   #63
sales@ESSTuning
sales@ESSTuning's Avatar
390
Rep
3,149
Posts

Drives: ESS M3 / M4
Join Date: May 2007
Location: AZ

iTrader: (6)

Also, running meth on the out-of-the-box ESS CFR setup will do very little to provide any gains. Methanol is used to cool the intake charge if excessive heat is causing the engine to pull timing off its set maps. Since the maps are already written correctly (not absurdly advanced), you will see little gains on the stock CFR by adding methanol. These kits are track-tested for almost a year before they see the public and performed without problems (including heat issues). We did not need methanol to cool even the hardest run setups.

Now, if you want to use methanol to make more power, that is a different story. You would want to run say a 138mm pulley to up the boost and also advance the timing to take advantage of it. ESS does not R&D for anything other than normal fuels (99% of the market), so option like methanol, alcohol, nitrous are custom applications and outside the normal support channels. It is possible but requires custom programming.
Appreciate 0