Hey guys sorry I haven't been too active in this thread lately. Life has been throwing me some curve balls. First off my laptop that i used for ecm link died, my mom was in the hospital after suffering cardiac arrest and my wife left me. So I had a lot of things on my plate. My moms now home...

Thats what I was worried about since my idle voltage seems to be what I am questioning and not when throttle is being applied as it comes up a lot then. I just figured the machine maybe tested it at idle for a while and then tested it again being reved. He printed out a little receipt thing...

I would some time like to go to meth injection or E-85 and believe I have all the upgrades to do so. 255 walboro, 1200 pte injectors, rewired fuel pump obviously ecm link lol.How hard is it to convert? Is it basically just drain the tank the best you can and put e85 in change targe a/f and...

No such thing, I live in Pennsylvania, our roads are probably the worst in the country with of course the highest taxes. Doesn't help that when I get around 5-6 the car gets uncomfortably unstable, feels like the front end is wondering left and right and the steering has more play if that makes...

I took it to advance auto and they tested it and said it was good yesterday. Although their test involved taking a reading of the battery with the car off, then starting car and reving it. Then reving it was a load on. It does seem like my battery has been maintaining around 12.6-12.7 and is...

I changed it again. I just richened a few cells in the 3000 range a little and tried to smooth the higher rpms section of the table out some

got another log this morning. I attached a clip of the pull. Also here is a screenshot of how I changed the table to match the pull and smoothed it out some. If you want you can see if you would of made similar adjustments to the VE table like I did when comparing the two. I do know around...

I tried smoothing out the max octane timing table left to right a little bit from what I had it set at this morning. I got a log on the way home and didn't get a cel for the first time with it set this way. It seems like lowering the timing to the 6s in the bottom of the table has stopped it...

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Ok so it looks like I was already running the stock min octane table before I changed it this morning. The issues I see is that the min table bottom few cells in 5,000 + range is higher than where my max cells are set now. Attached is photo comparing the max and min tables side by side to make...

Thanks very much for the suggestion and explanation on how to use the interpolate. The way it was set up when I did my log yesterday, it was higher than max octane in some spots which may have been throwing some things off. This morning I lowered max timing table to 6s in some spots where I...

Also, should I change my timinng min octane table to mirror my max table or be lower than the max octane table? The way it was set with the timing changes we have been making, the min octane table has higher timing in some cells than my max octane timing table. I would imagine that would throw...

Yes I did see there was an interpolate function however i am a little confused on how to use it and there is not much tutorials I have found that detail how to use it. Just people saying run it lol.Should I highlight only the cells I have changed and click interpolate or should I click the...

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My old alternator was only outputting around 12.9 volts once car got hot and didn't seem to go up much more with rpm increases so I bought a remanufactured alternator for a 97 galant from advanced auto. Its a carquest premium. When you first start the car and it's cold it is idling around 1100...

Is it possible for a 3-4% rich mixture cause knock. I saw you can get knock from being too rich but I figured it would have to be really rich for that to happen.I am going to make a new post for the alternator on here so this thread doesn't get too confusing.

Ok yes I am trying thats what I am trying to do. Use track in the VE table to track what cell is being used when wb factor is off and adjusting it appropriately. The main problem is I cannot get a complete 3rd gear pull because I am getting knock over 2 degrees triggering my cel so I abort the...

Hey guys, sorry it's been so long, I have been doing a couple things to the car that were not regarding tuning like inner tie rods, doing the big 3 power/ground wire upgrades (went to 4 gauge) and got a galant alternator installed trying to fix my low voltage issues. I bought a rebuilt...

I pulled off throttle body elbow, cleaned butterfly and housing, loosened nut behind tps sensor. It was better but sometimes still went back to .67 at idle. I backed the little adjustment screw off that keeps the butterfly from closing too much. This seemed to fix the issue. It now seems to...

I didn't get to mess with throttle body yet but I did go do a few pulls. I changed my open loop thresholds back to stock because I forgot to change them back to stock. I changed them back and did a pull and got knock. I am guessing because our prior calculations were based on keeping it in...

So I didn't get to do any pulls today because it was raining, but I did manage to determine that that I turn the throttle at the body by hand and let it slowly back to idle, I can get it to go to 1 instead and 0 at idle . If I try shutting it more by hand I can close it completely. Seems like...

Just throwing this out there for myself and for anyone in the future who is doing some research on tuning when it pertains to our dsms. This link is a bunch of helpful tips that will help you when learning. Wished I would of found this earlier...

I will check the throttle body and see if I can close it by hand more and check to see if loosening throttle cable helps at all. I have a sneaking suspicion what it may be. When I put the engine in, I remember the throttle cable where it comes from the firewall, the casing was broken and it...

Going over that last log I noticed my tps was reading .63v at idle like it should. Not too long after that first pull it went out a wack again and was reading 1% throttle position when I am not on throttle so it changed back again. Should I have to TPS adjust the car everytime I take a log, is...

Ok I was thinking thats what you meant. No problem. Ok so changed my VE table to match what you have in post 62 adjusting the 6,000 rpm on up range to match what you have. I did a TPS adjust while it was running and got it back to .63v at idle. I changed the timing max octane to match what...

Ok I will trying running TPS adjust with engine running. I did three logs this morning before I saw your reply this morning.Keep in mind the prior log I posted, the global I believe was like 48 or something. So when you replied to lower the number to 58.2 (you were thinking it was set at 55...

Ok i will lower those cells above 6k. The weird thing, is I do a TPS adjust and it changes slightly when throttle is applied. Set it at the .63 with car off and make sure it gets to 5v at full throttle. When car is running throttle volts varies slightly. Tried setting it with to .63 with car...

Ok yes I see in the screen shot you posted it was 7% rich according to wideband factor. just curious what you like the wb factor to be before you stop making global adjustments? Just for future reference

Ok I bumped the global fuel up from 55.5 to 45 ish range. Dont remember off the top of my head. Kinda strange but when I loaded my most recent log that I just captured, the global fuel is back to 55.5. Guess it somehow changed back. Maybe I hit a wrong button or something. I didn't touch the...

small 16g. Thanks

so basically drive it more and do the combine ft sd tool to adjust the cells,smooth them out and set the ones highlighted to 100 in the screen shot

ok guys i made some changes as follows. This is gonna be long again but trying to detail everything I changed to avoid confusion. I will add cliff notes to end of post if it helps.I noticed when the car is restarted when hot, it would idle like crap, but when first started it would idle...

Ok, I think I understand... so if we increase it at regulator while leaving it at what its set in link it will fool the system into adding more fuel without it changing the dead times and possibly negating the changes we made at the regulator.Prettys sure the wideband is correct. It was...

Ok I will bump the regulator up to maybe 45psi, leave the fuel pressure in ECM link set at the stock 43.5, reset the fuel trims and do a small pull and see what I get

Pretty sure it matches but I can double check it again.Why would raising the fuel pressure be better then increasing dead time? Not saying you not right, just trying to understand why it would be better as I am learning. I believe mine is set at 42.6 or whatever is stock for 2g don't...

Ok I did some watching of Scott Lairds YT videos and think I am finally starting to wrap my head somewhat around this.Watch this video at 5:14-7:28So after watching that section of the video, going off the portion of my log that TK's9d2TSi posted, my wideband factor was 22.5% meaning I was...

I just want to make sure I understand this right. Your telling me to increase the global dead time under the fuel tab and use the track VE table and see when those highlighted sections of the VE table are 100. Or are you telling me to increase the hight lighted sections for the VE table to 100?

And another alternator is going to be in the works as money allows. I am looking at the 90 amp galant as a replacement when I do get one. From what I have seen on other threads on here it is a direct bolt up. I noticed in my logs when the vehicle is first started its putting out around 14 at...

Yes if you check my first log I got a CEL for having more than 2* of knock so I am trying to stay out of it until I can get that straightened out. Not sure if is false knock though because it seems like I am not lean when it happens and I have read somewhere if you don't torque the knock sensor...

Ok yes I always forget about resetting them. I will reset fuel trims and take it on a short drive and see where it is at then and post a log

Should I drive the car more and get another log at this point? Should I keep the open loop thresholds to what I changed them to? Right now, it is set to keep it in closed loop longer. Or should I change the thresholds back to stock and get a log that way?

I tried smoothing the table out from what sdadjust suggested. Not sure I am doing it right. I highlighted all the cells from top to bottom that were changed. So going off the table in the post prior, I highlighted the 1000 rpm column starting at 5.5 and selected all the cells between 5.5-12.9...

The ve graph on the right represents what it was set at when I took the above log. The table on the left with the bold numbers represents what ecm link suggests after running the sdadjust on the above log

I thought my voltage seems to be a little lower then I think it should be. Sometimes it bounces up to 13.7 but seems to idle around 13.0 Probably my alternator is on it's way out

Here is a log i got from this weekend. Drove about and hour. I will upload the photos of the ve table both before and after making changes

So if my car is running rich every time I go into open loop, I need to use the VE table and lower those numbers to get the fuel down correct?Also I need to use TPS adjust correct to get the TPS zeroed out again, right? I am going to do that and drive the car some more when I have a chance...

So I tried what you said and changed the TPS to .63V at idle. The problem is, it seems to change back after the throttle is reved a few times. Seems like it always goes up to .65 or .67 after the throttle is moved a few times. I even tried changing it slightly below .63 to see if it would...

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Ok I set my TPS with key on car off, I will change it to when the car is idling. Thanks for the suggestions. I will give them a shot. Were you going off the 1st log when I was running in closed loop or the 2nd log where I had it locked in open loop? Just curious because I may have screwed...

Drove car to work this morning and got a log. It ran and idled good. I bumped the idle up to 950 but that was all the changes I made.