Educate me on HP levels and pump gas

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I put down 720 at 12* on 91. But I’ve it 3” piping and big cams and a BAP so my max boost is about 16.8 or so. I feel as if that’s the max that I can do at that fuel range. Correct me if I’m wrong though.
 

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I learned that the very HARD and expensive way with my Turbo Buick a few years ago. We tuned it aggressively on the dyno and at the track it had far more load and made a few more lbs of boost and Boom detonation with scattered parts everywhere! gave me a real warm and fuzzy feeling....:rolleyes:

If ur car is making 750 hp its gonna be a handful on the street so be careful. been in the woods a couple times myself with fast cars and not ashamed to admit it either lol live and learn!

That is a good point, Brett. Hadn't thought of it that way.
 

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I learned that the very HARD and expensive way with my Turbo Buick a few years ago. We tuned it aggressively on the dyno and at the track it had far more load and made a few more lbs of boost and Boom detonation with scattered parts everywhere! gave me a real warm and fuzzy feeling....:rolleyes:

If ur car is making 750 hp its gonna be a handful on the street so be careful. been in the woods a couple times myself with fast cars and not ashamed to admit it either lol live and learn!
No doubt it's going to be a handful....750 is more than enough for the street. I will not complain about that at all. I've been using this tuner for years now and he's always done right by me. I'm no tuner, so I won't ask him to do something he's not comfortable with. I've just never heard of a car with an already safe calibration being dialed back to hit a certain HP # unless the internals can't support it...that I can understand, would make sense for a stock bottom end.
 

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I put down 720 at 12* on 91. But I’ve it 3” piping and big cams and a BAP so my max boost is about 16.8 or so. I feel as if that’s the max that I can do at that fuel range. Correct me if I’m wrong though.

Built motor?
 

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I put down 720 at 12* on 91. But I’ve it 3” piping and big cams and a BAP so my max boost is about 16.8 or so. I feel as if that’s the max that I can do at that fuel range. Correct me if I’m wrong though.
That's probably about it, you don't really want to push more than 16psi on 91 octane.
 

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