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If I start mine after say 9am it's fine within 2-3 cranks it's started but of I try earlier and it's about 3-10 degrees it takes much longer, but a few primes and I'm away so it doesn't bother me at all

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  • Member For: 11y 9m 27d
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0.3 cranking lambda was a good improvement. Left cold star at 0.7.

I've been playing with the same trana, I'm down to 0.3 cranking also, the car started close to perfect this morning at 16'IAT 18'ECT 9'ambient..

Obviously we cannot change the characteristics of the fuel ratter but I have definitely made an improvement on how it starts/runs

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again, agree about the tuning but the real issues do not become evident until approx. <16-18 degrees.

why are your temps different to the ambient?, they should be almost exactly the same for a cold start test but if those numbers are correct you are still around the flash point of the fuel anyway

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I know it wasn't the coolest morning, but it was having trouble starting at those temps previously.

I got the ambient temp from my weather app, so that's only a guide. The other two came from my LM-2, the car day overnight for 9hrs before I started it this morning

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My started after about 3 seconds this morning. Much improved but you can tell alot of fuel was dumped in during cranking as it is a teeny bit rough just after start up but I can live with this.

I also noticed that E85 seems to run quite well running lean at operating temp. It seemed to run at 20:1 air fuel ratio (I use petrol ratio) without lean misfire whereas petrol would misfire at 18:1

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