So a customer drops his car off for an AEM tune

[donniekak]

Nice, less power than stock.

[Import Power]

Originally Posted by benson8277

How much was she making before with all the tuning issues? I guess it's good they didn't run too much timing and blow the damn thing up like my tuners did me!!!

in for numbers..

This IS a before run. All I did was make sure the AFR wasn't dangerous and turned on knock control and fix the WB.

I haven't started tuning. About to finish lunch and get to it.

-Chris

[Import Power]

Ok, so I started fresh.
Funny, the old map was setup so that the max raw number on the fuel table was 65. So even adding or subtracting 1 is a large percentage.

Setup basics and a basic conservative timing map still probably 5 degrees back. And on the rich side.

One outing with a few pulls. Yeah, she fees stronger. Still breaks up real bad when it hits 12-14psi. He has NGK copper 7's supposed to be gapped to 28 but I will pull and check, and a kennebell boostaspark. May remove that and see how it runs.

This was a first shot in the dark and set up rich for safety, missed it a bit as it's running 10.1 in boost. But that's easily fixed. Cruised a while and got cruise and accel/decel pretty good.

So even running 10.1 AFR (LOL) as compared to the 11.5-11.9 it was running, same boost, it picked up 50hp and 79 ft lbs tq.

-Chris

[Forest Gump]

good progress already

[Curt93T/T]

Originally Posted by donniekak

Nice, less power than stock.

Apparently you don't know that the 300HP (320HP 2nd gen) rating is not the wheels where the dyno is showing 250 at the wheels.

[Willens himself]

Originally Posted by Curt93T/T

Apparently you don't know that the 300HP (320HP 2nd gen) rating is not the wheels where the dyno is showing 250 at the wheels.

Huh? Donnie definitely knows the basics, and even then 205 is less than ~250 by my math.

[NOMIEZVR-4]

this should get interesting real quick...

[Curt93T/T]

Originally Posted by Willens himself

Huh? Donnie definitely knows the basics, and even then 205 is less than ~250 by my math.

I see what I did, I looked at the torque thinking it was HP.

[slava]

Originally Posted by Import Power

Then I thought, Let me check the base timing. This needs to be set before anything else to ensure when the AEM puts out 15 degrees, the engine will actually be at 15 degrees.

-Chris

Thank you for reminder Chris. I have set my AEM ignition 6 years ago and it is probably a good time to check if the timing still matches.
Thanks for shipping pump and injectors really quick. Iam planning to install and run E85 real soon. Any AEM maps you can share? It would be helpfull to go through other people maps just to see if something stands out. I had opened my map so many times that I stopped noticing issues. Recently I found i have no IAT/Fuel trim setup. ;( Thats why my cold starts were always a pain.

[jonc]

Hey Chris, what city are you in? If not too far from the border, I may drive down to have you tweak my car one day.