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No babes into car cruises

Was the vibration there when you bought it?

Who put the clutch setup in. Was it balanced as in clutch and flywheel balanced in a balancing machine. Could it be loose flywheel bolts?

I tried to pull a tune with the latest XCAL and it wouldn't. Was pretty sure it was something new. It does not matter, it just means that you are going to learn to tune sooner rather than later. We can send you a tune and guide you. Get your stock tune first. What model are you tuning.

I suggest you playing with the scanner first. If that is working then you are half way there

Pretty much as above. Have you logged onto the HP Tuner Forum? Unmarried means that the hand controller can be used on another vehicle. When married to the car it can only used on that car whilst you have the performance tune in the car. I can't walk you thru it at the moment. Just make sure you have full charge on the car battery and laptop.

You're in now, we will tell you more about the initiation on the day.

Sorry mate, you need at least 5 posts to be able to join the cruise.

It seems there was a leak there somewhere. You need to take the cover off to establish where. Dont take the dump off till you establish its there. You can drive around without the cover so take your time. Sometimes you get a hose and put it to your ear to pinpoint the location. Sometimes expecially when cold you can put your hand around there and feel it. You sometimes need a bit of force on those bolts but Reducteur which you can buy at bunnings $20 is the best stuff for rusty bolts but I dont think you need it for this. Use genuine gasket You will find one of the bolts a PIA on the flange dump. The bottom one you may need to modify a closed end spanna by grinding it down to fit. You will need to take the dump off to weld in another bung and also if you want to check if the flange face is true.

Yes, main reason are emission reasons. They used to implement lean cruise up till the late 90s, after that they were not allowed. Something to do with higher NO2 emmissions. I have got a lean cruise VT supercharged Late model camira and it cruises around the 16:1. Excellent economy. So if you factor into the extra fuel that needs to be manufactured/transported because of not being allowed lean cruise then you wonder whether they have got their numbers right. With E85 being a cleaner fuel that runs cooler I would think running leaner would still comply. But manufactures still take a while to work it out. They can't even make the latest E85 Compliant Commodores have clean cold starts.

You would be surprised how well it runs in open loop. In mine it runs like stock. If you dial in the injectors properly where the lambda in base fuel matches (the best you can) to actual lambda then you can command whatever lambda you want via the base fuel map. You can run open loop closer to the lean misfire point in BP98 cause with a narrowband in closed loop needs a bit of room to move above the cross over point (does that make sense)

I found E85 behaves differently to BP98. With BP98 you get the normal lean missfire anywhere from 16+:1 dependening on engine some engines 17:1+. With E85 there seems to be no lean missfire but it just starts to loose power. So yes, even 20:1 but less power. I didn't play with it that long but definately behaves differently. I thought to myself the OEM have got it wrong with tuning to lambda on cruise with E85. Sometimes I thought my lambda meter was playing with my mind but certainly can run leaner .

In this case BP98 but E85 you can run heaps leaner I found. With tuning many guys just stick with quoting petrol fuel ratios even when running E85. Some like just quoting lambda. It is what suits you.

That table you bought up does not work from memory. It wont allow you to adjust. Don't know why. The narrow band simulation is possible. If you got your head around it properly I think you could calibrate it so the ECU likes it. But ii did do some weird stuff at times and another guy who had a stab at it also had the ECU trip out on him like it did me. But because you have so much on your plate ATM leave that till later when you understand it all a bit better. Meanwhile just do the extra bung for wideband. These new widebands last a very long time. You are probably thinking of the old bosch wideband sensors which only lasted a few hundred hours. The new ones last like normal O2 sensors. Originally I wanted to run the simulation narrowband output on the Innovate LC1 to introduce and offset to run leaner on cruise. Yet it can be done and works but as I said I never nutted it out completely but if you put you head to it you might be able to. To run leaner I just shut off the narrowband and then adjusted the fuel base table lambda to get to where I wanted. Mine is about 15.5:1 on cruise.

Don't bother with that turbo. Just find a proper garret that will bolt straight in.

In regards to the wideband, I would recommend one with a gauge display. This way you can observe the airfuel ratios of the stock tune in normal day to day driving and understand more of where they are meant to be once you start playing with numbers. The innovate has two outputs so you have one for the dash display and one for the laptop. I don't know much about others. The other thing I would recommend is an external boost controller. Ralphy has a turbosmart one and its just alot easier to adjust boost by pressing buttons on the fly. If you need a tune you can pop me an email. Once you get your HP Tuner Login there a tunes on the Tune Repository that you will get access to. As a general rule you should match Ford tune strategys to the vehicle they came out of.. Each tune has a what is called a strategy number. Ford is always making little changes to the software and tunes during production. So you cant just go throwing in a tune from another vehicle and expect it to work. For example I tried a F6 tune in my G6et. The engine ran fine but the transmission would not go out of first gear. A tuner that originally tuned my car put a tune from another FG into my car and it caused intermittent stalling and unusual gear changes.

No, it is not a sh*tty move. Mate, don't worry about using a modified Ford Tune file. The reality is that Ford spent millions creating a tune, a tuner uses this Ford tune with a few changes and then claims he owns it. Ridiculous. Just use whatever tune file is there and it makes it alot easier. Then when you get more experience then its easy to start from scratch but there is already enough to learn as it is, no point reinventing the wheel. And don't listen to the guys who try to shame you using a tune that you have already paid for.

You would just put them in with a stock tune to go thru a process of elimination. You can drive it, just dont load it.

What you do is upload the modified SCT tune into HP Tuners. Then you return the tune back to stock via the SCT box so that it is unmarried. Then you upload the stock tune and make sure you don't loose the stock tune otherwise if you need a stock tune got to go back to Ford. Then you download the modified tune with HP tuners. Get a wideband from innovate, something like a LC1. Don't worry about narrowband simulation. I've done it and unless you know what you are doing its a bit of a head phuck. You are better off getting another bung welded onto your exhaust. When you get your Hp Tuner hardware you will be able to log onto the Hp Tuner forum and there is alot of good info there, alot of good info about widebands. The fact you have a modified tune will make the learning process a bit easier. You can do a compare of the stock and modified tune and see what tables have been changed and work from there.

Tell us when you find out the issue cause I don't think we have had a thread on a problem like this before.

Get the Pro mate, you will wish you had the wide band input once you start nutting it all out. You think you won't tune now but then you start playing building up your knowledge and before you know it you start thinking this sh*t aint that hard.

Pretty sure not intake manifold leak, nor coils or plugs nor T/B clean. I Just listened to the video again. Pretty sure there is an exhaust leak. Could be loose manifold/turbo bolts where bolts just need to be tightened to you having to remove manifold and replacing gaskets with factory ford gaskets and no goo. Just tighten up properly. If turbo bolts loose you may need to invest in some special bolts available that don't come loose as easily. Do that and see what happens. Whilst you are in the area of the turbo I would even maybe replace the o2 sensor with a good quality one. I could imagine an exhaust leak playing with 02 sensor readings so that is why I would rectify the leak first then go from there. Pretty sure you do have a data logger with your handheld SCT . You got to download the software and learn to use it. You can even check error codes Dont bother with an injector cleaner either.

We are talking about an exhaust manifold, not an inlet manifold. No spraying. I hope I have not given you a run around. If you put up a video without surrounding noise in the background it would be alot easier to hear. Generally the noise will stay the same hot or cold. I might use a hose to the ear to the exhaust leak to pin point, sometimes you can see black, sometimes you can feel it with your hand. Sometimes you know its there but you just gotta take it apart to see where.