DSMlink issues (connection, idle, tuning)

[tsidrift1]

I get Dsmlink all plugged up guess what, the stupid piece of junk doesnt run right. I cant get it to idle. Everytime I ask someone on here or the dsmlink forums they say im a dumass and all I have to do is set the the global and deadtime for the injectors. Well that doesnt work for shit either! I can only connect to the stupid ecu once in a blue moon cause it never wants to connect when I want it too! everytime I shut the car off it changes the values that I entered in the day before. Now the piece is smoking for some reason. does anyone have any insight on what I should do to help this situation. If I cant figure this out by the end of the week, I am going to sell the piece of shit!!!

Anthony

 

[SpiralOut]

Dude dont sell your car. Just sit back and take a deep breath.......... Ok now start form the top and go through everything.

 

[dsmmack]

yeah man, we've all been there doing an upgrade and running into a snag and want nothing to do with the car..but start over and try again, don't sell the car because something isn't going your way, probably one little thing needs adjusting, maybe call the guys from dsmlink and see what they say, i'm sure they'd help you, good luck!

 

[tsidrift1]

OK, I feel a lot better right now. After hours of dicking with the laptop, we finally got it to read the ecu and connect. I got my throttle pos raw value set at about 31(close as I could get it to 32) And my tps volts are at .61. I am gueassing that was all that was wrong with the idle. It sounds so much better than it did earlier this afternoon. I am going to try and calibrate the maft later this week. Hopefully the car will idle the same tomorrow when I get home.

 

[snowborder714]

Well, I see that you have it running now so my post doesn't matter. Glad to hear you got it working and that selling that beautiful car is out of the question.

 

[blcknspo0ln]

OK, I feel a lot better right now. After hours of dicking with the laptop, we finally got it to read the ecu and connect. I got my throttle pos raw value set at about 31(close as I could get it to 32) And my tps volts are at .61. I am gueassing that was all that was wrong with the idle. It sounds so much better than it did earlier this afternoon. I am going to try and calibrate the maft later this week. Hopefully the car will idle the same tomorrow when I get home.

All that ranting and raving I like this guide here for base line idle tuning :

DSMLink User Group Forums

Another tricky thing that I've picked up is to log idlesw. Let the car sit at idle and stream dsmlink. idlesw should read -1- if the throttle is not being depressed and -0- at any throttle movement. Check and make sure that it goes from 1-0-1 everytime you push the throttle down. If it does NOT move, then the ECU doesn't know that you are at idle. If that's the case, go and enable 'enable idle switch'. This will force the ECU to determine that you are idling and will help with idle.