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These cars come with a high octain timing map and a low octain timing map. When the engine see's a certain amount of knock it goes onto the low octain timing map. From the factory the timing is alot lower than the high octain map to protect the motor from ussing low octain gas or getting some bad gas.
I would expect than any tuner out there or handheld tuner would NOT program the low octain timing map to be the same as the high octain timing map. So I'd be pretty sure that Teds tune has this lower timing map in your tune.
I personally tested this with putting 87 octain in my car and beat the snot out of it while logging the perameters. Sure enough the knock sensors went crazy and put the timing into the lower octain table i set and everything was fine. Of course loss some decent power but protected the motor no problem.
When I filled up the car the map resetted itself to the high octain timing table.
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