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[gert]

So sweet congrats


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[Lumpy Grits]

OUT FK'n STANDING!

OLG

 

[Belizean]

Successful job. Congratulations, always a great feeling!

 

[007]

Thank you to all of you that have given me a pat on the back. I sincerely appreciate it. I learned a lot and am still learning. It has been quite a process for someone who "wasn't" too literate with ignition systems. I can hold my own now.

I'll keep posting as the tuning process continues. It does it in its own but you can customize some items as well. I'm calling Holley tomorrow to get my head straight in something. I'll post about that tomorrow.

Thank you again.


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[Posi]

Well done!

 

[007]

...I'm calling Holley tomorrow to get my head straight in something. I'll post about that tomorrow.

So as a part of the initial setup wizard, you're asked to input the desired idle speed. For whatever reason, I picked something like 725. Well it never would idle down that low, kept hovering around 800-850. After some reading last night and a quick call for follow-up to Holley, here's why...

In the controller, there's a setting that sets minimum idle for a given coolant temperature. If yours is set at 800rpm at 160 degrees, you'll never get 725, so you have to adjust (more on that later). Additionally, if you have a configuration load where the minimum idle for -40 degrees is set to this odd value of about 425, once it warms past -40 degrees, it will idle around 800-850 at any temperature regardless of anything else that's set, it throws the idle air control (IAC) into a tizzy. This scenario is rare with the current shipping units, but can appear after doing a reset on the system. If you see it, you just need to drag that plot point up. Also, if you want something lower you need to set your graph lower than your chosen speed at any temperature over 140.

in this photo below you see where -40 degrees is set at about 425 rpm, once coolant is warmer around -35, it will idle at 800-850 from there on out. Basically it doesn't like you to increase idle RPM as coolant heats, only lower it.

Here below, the -40 has been raised to around 900-1000 at -40, then it drops as temps increase and levels off around 780 at 140 deg. Still, you can't specify an RPM lower than this without moving the plot points.

My engine seems happiest at 675, so I need to drag my points down below that so that the idle target can be reached. So theoretically I could set all points at 400 rpm at temps 140 and above, then set my idle point at 675 and it would idle at 675. You can fine-tune idle speed at the throttle body just as you would a carb if you wish.

Again, all of this is done with the kit's handheld display and stylus. You CAN export your config to the included SD card and load it in the free Sniper Software on your laptop and make additional changes or fine-tune plot points then reload your system with those changes when you put the SD card back in the display unit.

This sounds like a lot of knowledge is needed - IT'S NOT. it's just learning what few tweaks you need from the outset, after that the system is entirely self-learning OR computer manageable by you IF you choose.

I will test and advise my changes tonight.

 

[gert]

Sounds like a lot of fun and interesting things you can play with


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[shum8]

Kinda makes me want one now.........


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[007]

So tonight I pulled my config off to the SD card and loaded it in the Sniper software. There it was much easier to fine tune some RPM settings and some gauges. Very easy to do and save and send back to the ECU. Very, very simple.

This was my first stab at setting idle rpm's in accordance with cooler temperatures.

But after I did some custom gauges, I realized that I don't need a -40 and so forth on temperatures so I made a newer and flatter idle rpm graph.

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[gert]

Kinda makes me want one now.........


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lol and the snowball continues to roll

 

[shum8]

lol and the snowball continues to roll

I'm hoping to keep that assigned to phase two. Phase one is still to DRIVE THE STUPID THING!!!


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[007]

Today I had a guy from work straighten out my spare tire carrier a bent rolling back into a tree last fall.

I was a bit surprised, that steel is a bit more stout than i expected, which makes sense now when I recall how hard I hit that tree and how little it really did dent the carrier.

We used some blocks and clamps and some heat. Now it's darn near perfect.

Now for some flap disc and sanding and re-painting.


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[shum8]

Wouldn't have been easier to have just hit the tree with the front of the Jeep and reverse the bend??? LOL


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[007]

Wouldn't have been easier to have just hit the tree with the front of the Jeep and reverse the bend??? LOL


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I wish. I looked around for a different one and I seems they're either $25 or $125. Not much in between and the $25's don't stick around long and I won't pay $125 for one.


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[shum8]

After I built one, I tried for a couple months to sell the original.... had zero bites so it went to scrap. All in location I guess..


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[Belizean]

Wouldn't have been easier to have just hit the tree with the front of the Jeep and reverse the bend??? LOL


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About 31 years ago my girlfriend / wife now, borrowed my jeep and kinda pulled out into a street and a car came flying around a curve the same direction. The other cars bumper got ripped off and my front bumper got pulled out about 4 inches at 1 end. Used a telephone pole to push it back in straight. Worked great. She felt terrible for some time after that

 

[shum8]

I had a similar experience - but a tree started it while we were playing in the snow.....


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[007]

So here's everything all buttoned up.

Now the hood is DOWN. Latched.

The rest of my morning consisted of flap discing the tire carrier and painting it. Painting the tailgate area and the rear hitch/bumper.

Hope to get the tire carrier back on tonight and hang the tire. I'll still need to weld the hinges and latch to make it rattle free (for those of you who don't know, I don't really have a tailgate I have a nice piece of sheet metal that's bent twice at the top that follows the top lines of the tub, so the swinging action of the Tire Carrier is not necessary…thus neither are the rattles).


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[shum8]

That is absolutely gorgeous....... I'll,be lucky to have mine turn half that nice!!


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[Posi]

Nice job on the FI install!