Remote Tuning Questions

Hey everyone, gonna be tuning my own car soon, but it got me thinking...

HP academy recommends both knock detection equipment and o2 sensors when tuning, which makes sense, but how would a remote tuner achieve this when asking a customer to flash a tune onto their car, and then do a run and log results?

Is it a case of just being conservative in the tune, and staying well away from potential knock, or is there something I am missing.

From my knowledge, factory o2 sensors are quite limited, do remote tuners ask each customer to get a wideband put in?

Thank you!

The cars that work best with remote reflash tuning have factory wideband sensors and knock sensors tuned by the factory for those engines. Remote tuners count on using those tools. For example, the "KR" or Knock Retard value will indicate that the engine can't support the requested ignition timing, and the OEM ECU has already reduced the timing to prevent knock.

Also, if you tune many of a certain vehicle, or ones with common modifications, you can quickly hone in on a narrow tuning window that will work well.

Of course, some remote turning is live remote tuning with a car or engine on a dyno. It's pretty awesome when you change a parameter on an engine running on the other side of the world, you hear it change the exhaust note as the cam moves to a new position.

Ah awesome as!

I see remote tuning a lot in 350z/370z and 86/brz which is what id like to focus on. I don't know if id be game to remote tune turbo cars due to the crazy number of variables, however, I have seen it done.

So definitely shouldn't be pushing it as much as you can when listening for knock, but the engine should tell you if its getting pushed too far and should, in theory, retard enough to prevent knock and damage?

Awesome!