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title: Flex Fuel
description: Setting up the flex fuel / ethanol content sensor
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date: 2020-01-16T11:37:06.161Z
date: 2020-01-16T12:09:30.179Z
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Overview
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# Flex Fuel
## Overview
Speeduino has the ability to modify fuel and ignition settings based on the ethanol content of the fuel being used, a practice typically known as flex fuelling. A flex fuel sensor is installed in the feed or return fuel lines and a signal wire is used as an input on the Speeduino board.
As ethanol is less energy dense, but also has a higher equivalent octane rating, adjustments to the fuel load and ignition timing are required.
Hardware
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## Hardware
Speeduino uses any of the standard GM/Continental Flex fuel sensors that are widely available and were used across a wide range of vehicles. These were available in 3 different units, all of which are functionally identical, with the main difference being only the physical size and connector. The part numbers for these are:
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On boards earlier to these, you will need to add a pullup resistor of between 2k and 3.5k Ohm. Recommended value is 3.3k, however any resistor in this range will work. Note that this is a relatively strict range, more generic values such as 1k or 10k DO NOT WORK with these sensors.
Tuning
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## Tuning
![flex_settings.png](/img/flex/flex_settings.png){.align-center width=450}
- **Sensor frequency -** The minimum and maximum frequency of the sensor that represent 0% and 100% ethanol respectively. For standard GM/Continental flex sensors, these values are 50 and 150