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DRTuned - Tuning My Car With My Steam Deck

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Tuning Your Car I own a 2015 Mazda 3. It's far from the fastest car on the road, and after owning a modified Audi A4, and driving some other fun and fast cars, every time I go back to it it feels like a bit of a downgrade (save for the reliability!). After the reliability nightmare that my Audi was, I have very little interest in buying a car like that one any time soon despite how fun and fast it was, but wouldn't it be nice if my existing car was a bit speedier?  Enter the world of tuning. A car's tune is basically the software that controls the very low-level portions of the engine. It controls engine timing, air-fuel ratio, and much more. Most car manufacturers make a very safe default, or stock tune for their car. They don't optimize it for each and every single car that rolls off the production line, they make one safe tune and apply it to all of them.  This means that there's generally some room for performance gains on every single stock tune in any car. Add