General Target AFR's and Lean Cruise
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Ok, I was about to run through an auto-tune, when I looked at the table and thought it was WAY too rich. My goodness, 12.8:1 while still NA? And the cruising (like 60-80 mph) is still 13.0 or so.
Well, I bumped all the lower rows (more vacuum) a bit leaner. Maybe it's a bad idea, but it'll still be richer than I have it.
I found this:
BTW, how do I tell if my innovative is calibrated right? Can I just turn on the car without running the motor for a few minutes and see if it says 14.7, or do I need to pull it out of the pipe, etc?
Well, I bumped all the lower rows (more vacuum) a bit leaner. Maybe it's a bad idea, but it'll still be richer than I have it.
I found this:
Under cruise conditions, the VN-VPs cruise on 14.7:1, while VRs onward use a lean cruise function. Lean cruise kicks in once coolant temperature is over 80 degrees C, you're travelling faster than 68 km/h, the engine is spinning at between 1600 and 2800 rpm and manifold vacuum is between 40 kPa and 60 kPa absolute (the VS-on works on an airflow meter signal). Once 150 seconds is timed out under those conditions, the air-fuel ratio will lean out one point every 0.15 seconds. They're set up to run as lean as 16.5:1 - but only at that light load cruise situation. You can't be driving on and off the throttle.
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my lc1 with the key on no engine running says like 22.4 cuz 14.7 the motor would have to be on to read that! and being turbo i cruise about 14.5-15 so being na that isnt a bad idea pulling the wideband outta the pipe is just for calibration with just key on it should just read no fuel just oxygen which mine shows 22.4 when the car has been off for at least 30 mins
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Ok, I was about to run through an auto-tune, when I looked at the table and thought it was WAY too rich. My goodness, 12.8:1 while still NA? And the cruising (like 60-80 mph) is still 13.0 or so.
Well, I bumped all the lower rows (more vacuum) a bit leaner. Maybe it's a bad idea, but it'll still be richer than I have it.
Well, I bumped all the lower rows (more vacuum) a bit leaner. Maybe it's a bad idea, but it'll still be richer than I have it.
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basically hit the highway laptop on the passeneger seat and press 'G' when in the tuning window so your cursor follows the green blob, hold a steady state cruise and lean out until the car starts to 'surge' then richen up till it stops.
for timing bump it up until it starts to surge again, and then adjust the fuelling to suit. rinse repeat. Off the top of my heat my cruise portion of my ign_adv is around 35 BTDC
tuned for economy when cruising now
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BTW, how do I tell if my innovative is calibrated right? Can I just turn on the car without running the motor for a few minutes and see if it says 14.7, or do I need to pull it out of the pipe, etc?
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How did you come across some bogun website telling you how commodores run? If you don't know what they are they are like ****** down here in aus, cheap and every ****** has one.
I'm sure you could cruise a bit leaner though. As for 12.8, I have done a bit of reading and thats is quite an acceptable targetr for full load hight rpm. The mspnp faq is quite helpful for afrs I find also.
I'm sure you could cruise a bit leaner though. As for 12.8, I have done a bit of reading and thats is quite an acceptable targetr for full load hight rpm. The mspnp faq is quite helpful for afrs I find also.
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I aim for 15.5 - 16.5 at cruise you've got a lot more scope for leaning out ![wink](https://www.miataturbo.net/images/smilies/wink.gif)
basically hit the highway laptop on the passeneger seat and press 'G' when in the tuning window so your cursor follows the green blob, hold a steady state cruise and lean out until the car starts to 'surge' then richen up till it stops.
for timing bump it up until it starts to surge again, and then adjust the fuelling to suit. rinse repeat. Off the top of my heat my cruise portion of my ign_adv is around 35 BTDC
![wink](https://www.miataturbo.net/images/smilies/wink.gif)
basically hit the highway laptop on the passeneger seat and press 'G' when in the tuning window so your cursor follows the green blob, hold a steady state cruise and lean out until the car starts to 'surge' then richen up till it stops.
for timing bump it up until it starts to surge again, and then adjust the fuelling to suit. rinse repeat. Off the top of my heat my cruise portion of my ign_adv is around 35 BTDC
Nothing like simple directions with a step by step. So when adding more fuel doesn't fix the surge caused by the timing, back it off and you're done?
As a total aside, someone have good info for the thermo on a 2000? My values are a bit off. A tweaked one and generated a curve, but I'm sure it's off.
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