Ah...the joys of wideband tuning!
Finally...finally...the MAF curve is just about right. The car is really running quite well. A/F Mixture ranges from ~15:1 to 12:1 depending on load and acceleration. Light throttle feels just about right between 15 and 14 to one. Stuff it and the mixture richens to between 13 and 12 to one.
Car's running open loop as well. Really the only way you can tune anything otherwise the mixture jumps around quite a bit; hard to tell where the map is vs. the ranging corrections of the ECU. I'm thinking I may just run the car open loop all the time.
NEVER could have got this setup without the Innovate LC-1 wideband. It's really a great tool. Of course, there is some labor of love here. I think I've gone thru about 25 interations of the MAF curve to get to this point. Still have some more work to do but it's going to be some pretty fine tuning vs. the more or less gross adjustments that I've been making up to now.
Another interesting observation is how FAR the mixture has to be off to trip the CE light. In closed loop, the car will work very hard to correct the mixture even when it's grossly off. This of course leads one to believe that they have the MAF setup correctly when it's not near where you need it to be.
Next tweeks will be some added fine tuning in the 2700 to 3200 RPM range. With the stepped down diffy, the car runs about 2700 RPM at 70mph. Interestingly, the chip wants to push the mixture towards 13:1 or richer at this point. Or...I may just have a slight fat spot in the curve here. Anyways, I think I can get a little better highway MPG if I can move the mixture just a tad leaner here.
Also, I have some more work to do in the 4500 + RPM areas. While I'm in the ballpark here, I'd like to do some more checking with the WOT setting on vs. off. My observation is that with the WOT setting on, the car runs rich (12:1+). However, with the WOT off, I'm not sure that I'm sending the maximum voltage to the ECU via the MAF. I'll have to setup some trace logs and watch the voltmeter to see what's really happening here.
With all this, car still drives like a car with a hot cam. Don't have the really grunt down low that you might like for a city car. A cam change to a shorter duration cam is in order (and in the works). On the highway, the car pulls damn solid. 3rd and 4th gear acceleration on cam is impressive; car is pulling very strong at 80MPH in 3rd gear and keeps right on going when you hit 4th.
Anyways...lots of fun and I'm learning quite a bit. If anyone ends up with a Pro-M MAF setup, contact me and I'll share my curve settings. They should get a stock motor pretty close I would think.
Cheers!
Jeff
Last edited by Jeff N.; 01-02-2006 at 01:25 PM.
Bellevue WA
90 535iM - not much stock remains. 3.7 liters, ported head, cammed, 3.73 diffy, M5 brakes, MAFed, yadda yadda yadda
86 Porsche 951 - Track Toy