quick help cleaning up a tune

[CJones7566]

yes it was a backfire got it and no biggie I got you some good pulls on this one man, I welcome all this knowledge and know I will look at this convo for years to come when tuning my SI. It is so good man the tune is so good, and since the intakes coming its not like this is going to need to be perfect, but i will be looking back at these changes you make with each revision to help inform my own tuning style in the future, so helpful!

[CJones7566]

Also if I had 100 bucks or so what would be a good supporting mod for the hybrid cai? I'm not going header yet bud I'm gonna do a ramhorn later but I know tb and intake manifold are ported so maybe a set of tsx cams? Thoughts? Ideas looking to put in along with hybrid intake

[EFICU]

For $100 I'm not sure there is too much you can do. TSX cams would be good for a little power, I don't remember how much they cost though. For $150 you can get quality test pipe like the Berk Technology one. The TSX cams with a stock cat won't gain much however. They really shine when you have FBO's.

[CJones7566]

I mean y get the berk if I'm gonna get a header, can't my buddy just weld a foex pipe to a glass pack and make pretty good flow ? Just wondering , also I mean the tsx are just perfect because I want the power and they offer down the line anyways so I might cop some if I can at the pick n pull lol or online

[CJones7566]

Got it lose the cat and keep the tone deep is best option

[CJones7566]

Which tsx again I find some for 300 so.e for 180 , the rbb stamped ones right if my brains remembering

[EFICU]

Yeah I'm sure you guys can cut and weld something in place. Though your time, and the cost of pipe to make the delete section might be worth $150 to buy the Berk since they are on sale is all. But yeah, if you want to do something like that you can.

The RBB is what you want. 06-08 basically.

[CJones7566]

Well let's just say I'm not for now man I know the options I'm sure you have gone over every co.bo, let's just do this right and wait, slow and steady build, I'll get a race header later with cat delete, did those pulls look good ? They felt great one question though Mt fan came on in park after that hard drive but Temps were fine, its engaged at a temp by fp? Just i have a mishimoto fan and she is loud so I noticed it didn't Cy let off like usuall

[EFICU]

No problem, just throwing ideas out there near the $100 mark. Not much really you can do for $100 in today's world sadly. If you don't have shifter cable bushings and stuff like that, those can really make the shifter feel better, and even shifter base bushings. Not really power mods, but shifter feel mods that work well. You'll also want to look into swapping out the clutch master and slave cylinder to make the 1-2 shifter work better. I'm guessing right now you can powershift into second gear, unless you already did those mods.

Sorry I didn't see the datalog post, I only saw your followup posts and then mine buried it even higher. Yeah, it looks good. I only had to make a couple half percent adjustments to the WOT fueling in a few areas. Still had some knock higher in the rpms now, and one down low. We'll see how it looks in this next one. We're getting pretty low in ignition now, especially if you have 92 octane. But we'll see, and we won't worry about it much until the HR gets installed.

Yeah the max coolant temp was 201.4* F right before you let it idle for a while. Other than that, it was in the 190s most the way. The fans come on at OEM temps, comes on at 199* F and shuts off at 194*. We can lower those if you want, but it looks like your temps are controlled pretty well.

The tuning portion is fairly simple, so if you take over in the future you'll be just fine. The main thing is getting certain settings in the background of the tune set right so the ECU does what you want. But the fuel and ignition stuff is fairly straightforward. Once you get the header down the road, if you have me help you tune it then, we will tune each cam angle individually and you will really learn a lot and feel the difference in power from angle to angle. Which will then show you how important a proper cam angle map is to getting good linear power.

Here is the next one. I turned on the no lift shift too, double check the pedal % and the RPM are what you had it set to.

CJones7566.Hybrid.Rev05 (SportPedal).fpcal

[CJones7566]

I'm using 92 sometimes with no ethonol sometimes with, any other reason I'm knocking with conservative spark?? your opinion? Need new plugs or what?

[CJones7566]

3 pulls,what are some possible reasons for having to retard my timing? no biggie either with the intake itll be more air so more fuel and advance, my exhaust must be moving air too quick lol jk

[EFICU]

Couldn't really say, every car is different and some are just sensitive in areas more than others. Could be mileage, plugs, plug gap, etc. The new intake doesn't mean more advance, usually more restrictive setups actually handle more ignition. Seems odd, but it's actually very common for restrictive setups to have more ignition. Doesn't mean it makes more power of course, which more timing doesn't always mean more power either. This is the whole reason by we tune them, it's very hard to have one calibration that works perfect with every car.

We show no knock in this latest datalog which is good. The WOT fueling is being a little finicky so I took a bigger swing at that in this next one. We'll see how it looks in this next one. Keep making the third gear pull like you have been, but also throw in a fourth gear pull from 3000-7500 so we can check for knock in fourth gear now. Hopefully we will be knock free on all your WOT pulls now.

CJones7566.Hybrid.Rev06 (SportPedal).fpcal

[CJones7566]

That explains it so perfect I get that now, awesomeman let me load her up and give her a try;) you are God among men mr tuner

[CJones7566]

also im going to throw in new NGK irridiums when I do the intake, which part number do you like the hotter or slightly colder ones i think it was 22 or 20s as options

[EFICU]

Sounds good. Hopefully the WOT fuel richness will be gone. It's only a percent or two, but it is stubborn with pulling the fuel for some reason.

The general consensus I believe are the NGK 7746 plugs are the best for these engines and seem to have little to no issues from what I have seen.
https://www.ngk.com/ngk-7746-ifr7g-11ks ... spark-plug