1227165 Tuning Advice

[David A. Cooley]

At 10:48 AM 4/23/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi Dave and Bruce,
>
>Thanks for the help.
>
>When looking at the timing table, I need to look at the points in the table
>where the RPM and LV8 locations match the conditions of the Diacom data
>acquisition. Right??
>
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>
>>From looking at the Diacom data and the above table, the advance in degrees
>looks like total advance. I am running a base timing of 10° BTDC rather than
>the factory 6° BTDC setting. The closed loop performance is great with this
>10° adjustment. So the actual total advance is 4° greater than the table
>data would suggest.
>
>Overall, the high load/ high RPM advance does not look radical.
>
>Are there any WOT spark advance parameters??? The car runs great during part
>throttle closed loop operation. Maybe I can adjust the spark table for WOT
>and minimally effect the part throttle response.
>

Have to look at LV8 at WOT and see what it is at each RPM point... these
will be the points the ECM is using to set spark.

>I looked at the BLM during WOT and it was set to 128. I guess this means
>that there is no WOT A/F ratio compensation via the BLM.
>

Yep


>The data is very interesting. At low rpm / low load, the A/F ratio looks
>good. At low RPM/ high load, the ECM corrected a long term rich A/F
>condition. Mid RPM / low load, the system looks ok. At mid RPM / high load,
>the system looks lean. Maybe the engine is running lean! However, I am not
>sure if a fuel pressure adjustment will work. What is your opinion??

I think at WOT the engine is running lean... I'd add 3-4 PSI FP and see
what happens... Get the O2 volts above 850 and see if the knock goes away.

>
>The knock count rate is fairly consistent w.r.t. the diacom frame rate.
>Roughly 11 knock counts are detected in 88 diacom frames. The frame rate is
>roughly 0.150 mS, so the total test run is 13 seconds (gears 1, 2, & 3). The
>parameters when the knock count starts to increment are listed below.


>>From the above spark advance table and 10° base timing, it looks like the
>total advance is 18 +4 = 22°. Is the timing really the problem or is the
>engine slightly lean???

I'd say your a little lean... Keep the O2 above 850mv and see what
happens... As you increase FP, the idle will richen, but the ECM will drop
the BLM to compensate.
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