A non Buick question for Bob Bailey

[Turbo6Smackdown]

I hear you do a lot for other software/hardware companies. You may have done some stuff for my daily driver. My question was, does the Chrysler 200 V6's have what I keep hearing as "alternate octane tables"?
By that I mean if you run 87 in the car, in the summer of say Arizona, while driving in the mountains, and it starts knocking, and the computer starts pulling timing for too long, will the car permanently bump the timing all the way back until you put some better gas in and reset the ecu?

 

[TurboBob]

I don't know, but I know a couple guys that might.

What year car?

Bob

 

[Turbo6Smackdown]

2013 3.6 liter Chrysler 200.

 

[Turbo6Smackdown]

Heard anything back Bob?

 

[Mike Licht]

On your car there is something like that. it works sort of like the BLM does and learns the timing up and down. I have something called a scangauge and using that I can see it on my SRT8.

 

[Turbo6Smackdown]

If it starts to knock, will it stay pulled until it senses no more knock? Or an ecu reset?

 

[TurboBob]

Once you put good gas in, the timing will creep back up. But I'm not sure how long it will take.

Bob

 

[Turbo6Smackdown]

So it's always trying to get away with as much timing (to a factory set point I'm sure) as it can basically? Would pulling a battery cable for ten minutes do anything?
I ask because Diablosport said our engines are VERY prone to knock even with 93, and basically even with a tune they can still sometimes knock, so I wondered if all that "supposed" knock would permanently throw this thing into an alternate timing/fuel table until an ecu reset. Because they said I could try putting a little higher octane in it to see, but they never mentioned any reset procedures. Was thinking of throwing a can of toluene in the tank, driving it around a bit, the resetting the ecu to see. But I wanted to ask you first, because I heard you had some experience in this arena. (the diablosport arena that is)

 

[Mike Licht]

I use a Diablo sport thing with a custom tune on my car. I am not 100% but it seems from the data I have gathered that there is some instant recovery sort of like what we see with a Buick and then the long term trim like Bob is talking about. I know if I get some bad gas it takes a while to come back and disconnecting the battery does nothing. you have to remove the tune and re install or wait

 

[Turbo6Smackdown]

Sounds good. Thank you sir.