Stinksause Attempts tunning
Issues ? Only one I can think of is inability to tune for different gears . But I've seen that with all cars using protuner. Could be a PT thing .....
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Brettus, I was meaning to ask you ... how exactly did you test to find out that your PCM is only using one set of tables for all of the gears? Did you just flatline your AFRs to something stupid rich in one of them and watch your guage?
I could see how that might be just how a particular package handles the bits.
Spent the first month or so floundering around till I realised what was going on ....
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as a matter of fact I did ... and I highly recommend it to anyone
before I sent my cobb out, i did drive around quite extensively just keeping an eye on my afrs ... I am pretty spot on at 13.3 - 13.7 ... so I am not sure how much improvement I will be able to get with fueling ...
I am a bit too wary to touch my ignition timing...... I will have to do a lot more reading/ research before I feel brave enough to go there ... but I wanna do it myself
Sooo... if you guys could offer me guidance, that would be great!
before I sent my cobb out, i did drive around quite extensively just keeping an eye on my afrs ... I am pretty spot on at 13.3 - 13.7 ... so I am not sure how much improvement I will be able to get with fueling ...
I am a bit too wary to touch my ignition timing...... I will have to do a lot more reading/ research before I feel brave enough to go there ... but I wanna do it myself
Sooo... if you guys could offer me guidance, that would be great!
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Could any of you fine gents suggest some good resources I should read on ignition timing/ dwell etc? I need some airplane reading material for my 10 hour trip to the motherland this weekend ... and I have my Engineering University's library at my disposal (Lehigh University, if any of you are curious)
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Seen the same thing 4-5 times with other PT users - seems to be a fault with the software .
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Not as much as I would . PIA not being able to tune for the different aux. port opening rpms in each gear + 1st and 2nd always end up leaner than I would like.
However - Mark has gone AWOL so not going to see any updates in the forseeable future .
However - Mark has gone AWOL so not going to see any updates in the forseeable future .
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Running Rich
So it is time I provide an update .... The car does not appear to be running poorly ... but its pig rich in the upper RPM (see attached file ... 3rd gear WOT pull starting from cell 233). Note: I was stupid and did not include STFT ... so I am going to assume I am in open loop
Now, how do I go about about fixing this ... here are the options that I am looking at
1. I scale the top of my MAF back down ... but I don't think the MAF is wrong because there is not a severe jump in the reading to correspond with the severe jump in AFR....
2. I scale my third injectors since they should be turning on right around there correct?
3. I smooth out my entire higher rpm power curve to say 11.5 afr and scale my MAF and injectors from there ... but this is too time consuming as it will probably take an entire day that I do not have until this weekend
4. Go out and get another WOT pull with STFT included to make sure I am def in open loop.
What do you guys think I should do?
Also as an aside ... I will be turbo by the new year and I am going to do my best to have MAF+ injectors dialed in soon ... is there anything else you guys think I should do to be ready (tunningwise)?
Now, how do I go about about fixing this ... here are the options that I am looking at
1. I scale the top of my MAF back down ... but I don't think the MAF is wrong because there is not a severe jump in the reading to correspond with the severe jump in AFR....
2. I scale my third injectors since they should be turning on right around there correct?
3. I smooth out my entire higher rpm power curve to say 11.5 afr and scale my MAF and injectors from there ... but this is too time consuming as it will probably take an entire day that I do not have until this weekend
4. Go out and get another WOT pull with STFT included to make sure I am def in open loop.
What do you guys think I should do?
Also as an aside ... I will be turbo by the new year and I am going to do my best to have MAF+ injectors dialed in soon ... is there anything else you guys think I should do to be ready (tunningwise)?
Last edited by stinksause; Sep 13, 2010 at 04:28 PM.
[quote=stinksause;3710439]The car is running good ... but its pig rich in the upper RPM{/quote]
These two statements are mutually exclusive.
What you meant to say is that the car doesn't feel like it is running poorly.
But it is.
Bad assumption.
What did we do in the seminar?
You will be starting over completely from scratch, so it doesn't matter. None of your current scaling will still apply.
These two statements are mutually exclusive.
What you meant to say is that the car doesn't feel like it is running poorly.
But it is.
You will be starting over completely from scratch, so it doesn't matter. None of your current scaling will still apply.
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I agree that I would have to rescale the MAF ... but why would I need to rescale my injectors?
Also, my cobb gives me an injector % duty cycle ... does that just apply to the primaries or is it referring to all of the injectors in total that are on at that point in time?
So MM, your opinion would be that I go out and get another log to make sure I am in OL and then scale my P3's since I will be starting from scratch soon enough anyway?
Also, my cobb gives me an injector % duty cycle ... does that just apply to the primaries or is it referring to all of the injectors in total that are on at that point in time?
So MM, your opinion would be that I go out and get another log to make sure I am in OL and then scale my P3's since I will be starting from scratch soon enough anyway?
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