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Originally Posted by sairoland
I still have CEL for ignition harness? or whatever it is that the adapter fixes i'm guessing. Maybe i'll attempt to rig my own adapter thanks to blackstealth. Is there any harm in driving around with this CEL? It doesn't seem to affect anything.
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After reading the English translation of the adapter instructions, I am thinking it is not optimum to drive around like this. My understand is that when you do Stage 3 wiring, the ECU detects inconsistencies with the injector circuits, goes into 'safe' mode (batch fire mode) since it can't confirm everything is 'okay', and throws a code and lights the lamp.
This is consistent with what I've observed on my car. With stage 3 wiring and no adapter, I got the CEL, my car ran extremely rich, and I had to adjust the i/j map with big negative numbers. (I believe this was counteracting batch fire mode.) Once I installed the adapter, I got no CEL, but had to throw out all my earlier maps as the rich condition was now gone.
I think Stage 3 makes sense with the adapter installed, but with no adapter, I'd just go back to Stage 2 and do all your tuning with the airflow adjustment map. All you give up is tuning with the i/j map, autotuning with the afr target map, and individual injector control. You have to decide if you need those or not.