Hondata

Thank you so much.

I had a feeling that is why #2 recorded like it did- knock sensor being bolted right there at cylinder 2. Speaking of knock sensors, at work I had to pull the intake off of an older S4. That thing has 4 knock sensors in the valley. *puke* Old Audis are just $4!7. Lol. Fun to ...

Hello. I just realized it's been 3 weeks that I've been running this latest tune. September seemed to fly by. The tune has been really good until the last couple days. I had a number of knocks on a couple drives and they were all come around the same time. I don't feel that I was "lugging" it when ...

Hello. I've had some fun with this map trying to get some decent logs in. From regular driving to being a bit on the "silly" side. I'm not sure how much affect cooler weather and wet/rainy conditions would have on the engine. I have uploaded 3 logs with this post which are from the last 10 days or ...

Yeah pretty much the same areas, just new knock basically. I think what it is, guys get comfortable with driving and sort of forget they are datalogging and drive how they normally do. Then new things emerge from that clear mindset. When you know you're datalogging, I think guys tend to change ...

Yeah the strategies Honda built are pretty great. And Hondata gives us the ability to manipulate those things so that they aren't as present in our tunes as they are in the stock Honda file. The goal is to get these where there is no knock retard when the datalogs are knock free, like these two ...

Yeah it's definitely helped out a lot to have a good base. And one that starts with a clean slate for each person. Your can shows every car needs it's own attention and strategy in most cases.

When the ECU records knock, the knock control value will rise which triggers the ECU implement more ...

Two cars with the same mods are very similar, but different in some areas. The basemap I start guys on now seems to be very close for all mods, intake only, and FBO cars. It's a file I smoothed out from a car with an HR intake, BERK HFC, and stock catback. Then I sort of smoothed everything out ...

I'm sure it's a combo of parts and cams. Honestly could be a number of things. It shows you that the more you know, the less you know. Haha. I used the strategy from your car thinking I had found a strategy for higher elevation cars, but then it didn't work on his. It's definitely something I will ...

Yes that is true. We sort of figured that out in your original tune with it at 4500 or 4600, it really fell off and then picked up a bunch when vtec hit. Which is why the vtec placement is so important. Granted you can get it close in a one size fits all tune, but tailoring it for each car is ...

Yeah if you come across an HFP muffler it would be easy to clean up the tune, it would only change it a little in the tune perhaps, but it would free up the exhaust a bit and feel better in the car most likely. Tuning stuff is fairly simple once you get through the complicated stuff. I know a lot ...

Yeah I've heard a lot of guys like the HFP exhaust. I don't know that I've ever heard it, at least not knowingly anyways. That's the bummer about liking OEM parts like the HFP exhaust, once they discontinue it, it's very hard to find something and in the condition you would like it to be in ...

Yeah it's usually fairly easy to keep track of everyone's mods, I think it's more that we've been working on your now for almost three months and I lost track of the Berk pipe. Where has three months gone, haha. Sheesh, now I feel bad...

I don't blame you on the exhaust. These cars are so hard to ...

Oh man, working on Audi's and BMWs is how serial killers are built. Haha. Bang your head against a wall just to bang it some more sometimes.

Yeah I"ve never heard a one of these with the TSX cams so I'm not sure of the difference. Part of it could be how I do the cam angle ramp up to vtec. I ...

Makes me happy to hear you guys get excited like that, it's the whole point of why I do it, as well as I literally enjoy doing this stuff. Granted when things don't go as expected it's a grueling mental bashing, but when it all goes smooth like your car has with the new intake it's so much fun. So ...

Yeah without any exhaust mods it really runs out of breath on the 40* cam angle. It definitely doesn't do you any good in the part throttle low cam stuff, but it does like some just into the vtec on the high cam which helps midrange a bit. But it falls off hard at the end. On your old tune, we ...