Fuel tuned
 

Anyone think you can gain anything by adjustiing your fuel pressure. Its worth five to ten hp on a dyno if you look at it. Especially if you own a nismo.

Adjusting fuel pressure will never make you a bit of power unless it was seriously too low to begin with, thus hampering proper fuel atomization at the injectors. Otherwise, you'd effectively be richening the mixture by increasing fuel pressure, which is never good for power unless you are running too lean.

Stock fuel pressure is probably around 40 psi at curb idle, so about 50 psi at WOT. Unless it's falling somewhere way outside of that, no power could possibly be gained. I suppose it's possible to lean out the mixture and gain a fraction of a hp before negatively affecting the efficiency of the engine due to poor atomization.

More fuel without more air will not net you more power (unless perhaps you were detonating, and the extra fuel quenches it -- that said, you're not detonating.)

And the OEM tune is pretty rich as it is...

So when I add intake and exhaust to my car I should keep my same fuel ratio. I do not want to add fuel pressure even in this case. If I do go lean on a dyno at least I can correct it.

I have built and many engine's on drag racing cars and engines. Im not trying to prove anything. I just want to know who makes a good FPR for the 370 z. Thank you for your help

Messing with your fuel pressure only serves to throw off your closed loop fuel trims. This is by far the worst way of tuning ever. Your car has electronically controlled fuel injection, which happens to be tunable electronically, please don't tune it like it has a carburetor. :tiphat:

Plus I'm pretty sure our fuel pressure regulator is located in-tank along with the filter and pump.

Not sure what you've worked on before, but if you're used to adjusting fuel mixture by messing with fuel pressure, the 370Z is going to be a whole new world...

Please refer to what I said above about our fuel system - definitely not worth modifying to the extent of adding an AFPR unless you are boosted, and heavily boosted at that.

#1, an intake and exhaust isn't going to make so great a difference that the ECU can't compensate with fuel trims -- in fact, it doesn't even appear to result in trims that are out of the "normal" range, and I've heard very few reports of driveability quirks that can be clearly traced to those bolt-ons.

Speaking of bolt-ons and AFR's, there are some dynos posted on here from Import Tuner Magazine of a 370Z with intake, intake+exahust, and both + tuning.

Interestingly enough, there is virtually no difference between the AFR's before and after the tune... in other words, you should be fine without tuning for those bolt-ons, although the tune would allow you to optimize performance, it doesn't appear to be mandatory for bolt-ons.

#2, If you really want to play with the AFR's, with or without bolt-ons, see about getting a Cobb Accessport or the Uprev Osirus ECU programmer/reflasher, and schedule some dyno time.

#3 If you were boosted, you would have serious fueling issues with the OEM set-up, and your concerns would be warranted. However, even with a blower or turbo, before going to an AFPR, you'd probably just upgrade to bigger fuel injectors. Tuning the ECU would be a must at that point as well.

if its tuned right it should look like this at red line
http://image.importtuner.com/f/10768...r_backfire.jpg

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Speaking of fuel what about E85? I've been reading on the forums about GTR guys modifying their cars to accept E85 fuel with good success. Has it been done to a 370 yet? Can it even be done?

Not sure but I know the gas milage goes to crap with that stuff. Are they able to compensate with the added power? Maybe with a factory blower they can. Whats the details?

E85 is better in boosted applications. It has a higher overal octane, at the expense of requiring somewhere around 30% more fuel to make the same amount of power. Also, it burns cooler than regular fuel, and its cheaper. So basically its race gas, for E85 prices.

However, there are downsides - as the weather chances, E85 is sometimes reduced to E70 due to lack of enough ethanol, and this can cause detonation if either a proper tune isnt run, or you simply dont go looking for a place that ALWAYS sells E85. Also, another obvious downside...you're burning a little over 30% more fuel lol.

The only benefit an E85-tuned N/A 370 would get, is from retarding the timing to a higher octane to squeeze out a few more horsepower. Not worth the effort in the end, IMHO. However, in a BOOSTED application (like the GT-R, obviously), you'll be able to run a higher amount of boost without detonation. Thats why boosted applications gain so much power on a properly tuned E85 setup.

^ pretty much nailed it. I ran my s2k on e85 for a while, and the Subaru guys love to switch to the stuff for power builds. It let's you run a race gas tune on the street.

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I have always advanced the timing when running higher octane fuel (compared to 93 or whatever). Both in N/A and with power adders. I thought that was the main reason so you could make more power without detonation.

Yeah, but the power gain you're going to get out of this is minimal at best with E85, compared to the effort you'll have to go through just to get the car READY for it.

Oh yea well I can see that. Kinda weird that they are not e85 ready to be honest. my 06 chevrolet truck is.

Rofl...name one sports car thats E85-ready....

factory fuel pressure at idle per the manual is 51psi