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Ralph Wiggum

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47 minutes ago, k31th said:

had a read of your thread the other day... it all seems all too familiar to my day job :P (except the assembly bit).

Good on ya for investing some time and effort into something like this :spoton:

 

You work in IT? Software Engineer?

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Yeah mate, I'm a software developer.

 

4 minutes ago, barnz said:

Help him keif apply your mad skills there, your not doing fark all in regards to the forum and your car so you should have plenty of time....

lol'd

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it was like a female amount of complimentary passive aggressiveness with a lil less passive and more aggressive...

Sorry... but srs you should help , coz you probably actually could...

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3 minutes ago, rollex said:

What kind? I'm open to other people helping out if they have experience writing comms libraries or .NET WPF UIs.

quite a lot, actually... here's a short overview of the major architectures I work within: Java (Android), Java (Enterprise/Web), Delphi, C# (ASP .NET, REST-ful, JSON etc), Objective C & Swift (iOS), PHP/HTML/XML/Javascript etc (basically all web-stuff), Firebird SQL/MSSQL/MySQL/MariaDB/NoSQL etc... Not sure if I have the time to invest in it, at the moment (as much as these guys here love to rip on me for not fixing the forum haha) :spoton:

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1 minute ago, rollex said:

Ah so mainly web development stuff. That is one area I've managed to avoid so far!

Mostly Windows/Android/iOS based GUI crap (and their associated back-ends) with a little bit of "web" stuff.

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So I took the plunge finally and my MPVI pro arrived yesterday :)

 

Did some initial logging, and am trying to get the scanner setup with the right channels/limits and measurements of unit.  Would be keen to know what everyone else logs, channel wise and what histogram graphs you're using to assist in your tuning.  Looks like the ford computers are quite limited in the PID's that can be recorded compared to the likes of GM etc.  I've managed to get the wideband all setup, just had to give it a slight -.2v correction to bring it as close to the gauge reading as possible.  The only thing I messed up was initially using the WB's GND, not realising that it was earthed through the OBD2 connector. 

 

I'm still level 1 (goo goo, gaa gaa) stages with tuning but there's already lots of things that I can see that are wrong with my extremely limited knowledge....  

 

For a start, at light cruise the STFT's were seeing in excess of +20%!  Admittedly when we fitted the whole KPM in tank setup with reg etc, we didn't gauge the base pressure to see how it would adjust the injector scaling.  CLEARLY it has.  That's definitely my fault and I need to get a gauge on it quick smart.   My ID high/low slopes are a little off according to ID data but I'll need to find my base pressure before I can correct any of that stuff.  I would have thought KPM engineered the whole kit to retain stock 4 bar rail pressure (at least I think that's what the falcons use)??  I've also noticed a +17% adjustment on my LTFT's at idle, which is definitely indicating that somethings not right...  I was thinking that maybe an vacuum leak (already suspected inlet manifold gasket) as I've developed a rather bad miss at idle since the pump setup and valve springs were installed.  Either that or the base idle fuel pressure has gone through the floor for it to have to correct that much fuel at idle...

 

 I've also sent my tune to JET initially to take a look, he also pointed out some things kindly which were a big no no.

 

Injector voltage offset data looks to have been zero'd.

Knock retard had all but been disabled, with total timing influence taken down to 1deg

 

I mean why do people do that!!  Jesus... :oooh:

 

Keen to get some help from all you guys experience, as well as from the HP Tuners forums.

 

If I can say one thing, it'll be great to finally take control of how the car drives into my own hands and not rely on any shop to give me some "hacked up factory tune that disables everything good" tune.

Cheers,

Rob

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Smh.

 

Whoever tuned that car needs a slap to the back of the head.

 

Imo removing knock protection (1 degree won't do anything) is a deliberate action to cause thousands of dollars of damage to your car. 

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