Ok, So i am fairly new to the ford stuff, I understand the principal of VVT etc. And I may be unknowingly asking what OZ tuning's magic is with their "Omega" tune.

I have my 2016 5.0 f150 whipple charged, I have a nGauge that I watch the Knock with, it displays -/+ depending if its adding timing. did all the tuning on just regular 90 octane fuel. I was just told if im going to beat on it, use some boostane. So I did, the display is showing me its giving me up to about 9-10 degrees of timing( eg. -9.82)\

SO reguardless of tune, if you put better fuel in it can just compensate that much depending on fuel quality? do they have some sort of fuel sensor in there that can tell octane rating? or is it just some magic that OZ does? In my Whipple tune, it would only show a max of 4 degrees of advance or retard. I mean I wouldn't put 87 or anything in it, but is killing a motor via bad gas and spark knock? Do they just give it as much advance as it can then when it sees knock it just backs off a bit?

Might be kind of a dumb question, but i have been thinking about it a lot latley

 

The timing advance or retard is all based around knock sensor activity. If the sensors aren't seeing knock or none above a given threshold, the pcm will advance timing to point determined by the tuner or to a point where the knock sensor does in fact jump in and say "no no too much." This determined point is based on multitude of factors that can include load, speed, rpm, airflow, etc. but that's the basic gist of it.

 

There's no magic in tuning. What one person is able to do, so is another. It's knowing what to modify and how much to modify that the "magic" happens.

 

Gotcha, thanks