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Old 02-21-2016, 09:07 AM
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Airflow vs Load

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So what have you been setting VE to ?

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Originally Posted by slash128
Mine is around the 0.96 level in upper rpms so no big difference there .
That just leaves maf calibration . Looking at the loads you are seeing at similar boost levels they seem quite a bit higher than mine. I like to calibrate for around 200% load at 14-15psi .
Something I haven't mentiond is that I like to do a 0psi log to simulate NA operation . If scaling is wrong on the injectors you wont get the numbers to line up with actual and you will get a big spike at around 5500rpm when the p2s kick in . also loads should be with a few % of 100 when doing this. Quite a difficult log to do without fully opening the WG though.

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Originally Posted by Brettus
Mine is around the 0.96 level in upper rpms so no big difference there .
That just leaves maf calibration . Looking at the loads you are seeing at similar boost levels they seem quite a bit higher than mine. I like to calibrate for around 200% load at 14-15psi .
Something I haven't mentiond is that I like to do a 0psi log to simulate NA operation . If scaling is wrong on the injectors you wont get the numbers to line up with actual and you will get a big spike at around 5500rpm when the p2s kick in . also loads should be with a few % of 100 when doing this. Quite a difficult log to do without fully opening the WG though.

My latest logs where I am seeing 240-250% load are at 16psi. Attached are my MAF calibration and last log. What does your MAF calibration look like? What kind of MAF voltage are you seeing? My last log was 4.88V. MAF voltage is is likely a better apples to apples comparison for where we are at relative to each other. From there we can suss out differences in calibrations.
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Originally Posted by slash128
My latest logs where I am seeing 240-250% load are at 16psi. Attached are my MAF calibration and last log. What does your MAF calibration look like? What kind of MAF voltage are you seeing? My last log was 4.88V. MAF voltage is is likely a better apples to apples comparison for where we are at relative to each other. From there we can suss out differences in calibrations.
I have the voltage reduction mod. so comparing voltages won't be relevant . At 16psi my loads are 210-215% and peak maf is 435g/s (just under 4.9v fwiw)

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Originally Posted by Brettus
I have the voltage reduction mod. so comparing voltages won't be relevant . At 16psi my loads are 210-215% and peak maf is 435g/s .
Ok, so in my last log I posted my peak MAF was only 420g/2 (yeah 420 ) So you are seeing higher g/s but I am seeing higher loads... Hmmm.....
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Ok, so in my last log I posted my peak MAF was only 420g/2 (yeah 420 ) So you are seeing higher g/s but I am seeing higher loads... Hmmm.....
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Originally Posted by slash128
Ok, so in my last log I posted my peak MAF was only 420g/2 (yeah 420 ) So you are seeing higher g/s but I am seeing higher loads... Hmmm.....
perhaps yours is dropping away at higher rpms ?

compare it with this (maf vs load) :

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Brettus, got to thinking, perhaps the difference in load vs MAF is where we are seeing it in the RPM range...

Jimmy, I don't mean to clutter your thread here. If you like I will gladly move somewhere else. Perhaps this subject needs it's own thread...
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Originally Posted by Brettus
perhaps yours is dropping away at higher rpms ?

compare it with this (maf vs load) :
Ha, we are thinking along the same lines lol... I would suggest we compare MAF voltage so as not to get hung up on MAF calibration at this point but since you have the MAF voltage divider mod and we can't really compare apples to apples this might be tough...


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Thanks for moving this Williard!

Brettus, something to keep in mind is I have a slipping clutch working against me.
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I'm not sure where we are going with this ..... lol . My original point is that the P2 injector staging in the oem maps causes large P2s to be out of whack flow wise . Your tune works obviously so I guess it doesn't matter so long as you get the end result you desire
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Well, I was hoping to better understand load vs airflow for the Renesis The challenge is that there are so many variables that we all adjust for our own setups. None necessarily right or wrong, just what works, as you mentioned. I am thinking that somewhere in the mix there is usable data to help us refine our tuning, both logical ECU parameters and physical setups... That was my thought anyway

If this is documented elsewhere I don't mean to rehash unnecessarily. By all means please let me know if there is some place I can look and we can nuke this thread from orbit lol... Ultimately, just trying to prep for next level!

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I spent a lot of time massaging numbers in matchbot . Give it a try as the process of trying to get the numbers to make sense will help you understand what you have to do to make more powerzzzzzzzzzz !

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Hmm, ok, I thought that was more about matching turbo/compressor to engine, not about airflow vs load calculation specific to our Renesis. But I will go spend some time on it.
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Originally Posted by slash128
Hmm, ok, I thought that was more about matching turbo/compressor to engine, not about airflow vs load calculation specific to our Renesis. But I will go spend some time on it.
I found it very enlightening . You will have to make a guess at where your turbine sits ..... once you get backpressure info that becomes much easier and it all seems to come together .

I now have power/backpressure/boost/maf flow all lining up with what i'm seeing in my logs .

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Cool! Unfortunately, it will be a bit before I get physically prepped to perform all this. In the meantime I will do some studying. But, curious for the spoiler, will this answer why for the same airflow at a given RPM we will get different loads?
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Here is the one i've been playng with . Make sure you send yourself the link after you finish so you can go back to where you left off ....


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Originally Posted by slash128
will this answer why for the same airflow at a given RPM we will get different loads?
we don't ..... if you look at 8100 rpm where our (logged) flows are almost the same .... load is almost the same . Small discrepancy would be due to the different ambient temps.
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Can you share your log file? Or did you and I missed it? Hard for me to make out your discrete values based on the graph.
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Ok, so after looking at logs direct I see we are pretty much in synch. Looks like I was making much ado about nothin' regarding airflow vs load lol.....

That said, I still think there might be some value in seeing where our MAF voltage lines up. But given that you are running a voltage divider and I am not, and the variance in MAF response that I have seen, I think this may require more effort than it is worth....
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Here is the discrepency .................... your maf calibration in blue mine in orange


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If you recalibrate yours to look more like mine .............. it will make you run lean . To correct that you will need to rescale the P2s , which is what I was alluding to at the beginning of this discussion
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If you look at the stock MAF calibration profile it does a funny taper off at the end. I was attempting to preserve that as I figured Mazda had something figured out... Agreed, the differences in our MAF calibrations would certainly explain all the other differences in our logs, which is why I was hoping to see our MAF voltage comparisons and more or less eliminate calibration uncertainties from the equation...


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Originally Posted by slash128
If you look at the stock MAF calibration profile it does a funny taper off at the end. ..
That is because they change the voltage spacings at the end , which skews the graph .


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