Roland@pcmtec

Do you have an aftermarket fuel rail? You could be getting vapour lock in the rail. Aftermarket rails also suffer from more heat soak. There is a heat soak model to account for fuel density changing on a hot start. The workshop edition has all of the tables mapped. You could also just fudge the cranking lambda and that may work.

If you set the tune up to run 9s (eg just enough to keep it alive) but then daily it with way more torque reduction, eg basically no WOT downshifts etc you could make it live forever. Making it run 0 torque reduction on the higher gear shifts will be fast but it will never live long. You could fudge this in the multitune by tweaking speed density (to reduce torque reduction) then fixing fueling via tuning correction to get a multitune with different shift pressures. Be a bit hacky but you could make it work.

Yes change the deadband and hysterisis values. Also make the rpm distance between the hard and soft cut smaller. There are quite a few threads on this already if you do a search.

Gravel carpark with a functional handbrake at low speed is usually pretty safe.

Anymore information on what the "Safety software" is? There are a lot of failsafes in the ABS module that you wouldn't want to disable. Make sure you test it somewhere safe.

Can you attach your .tec file and please add MID04853 CAM VCT Source to the datalog In the logs you attached your car is very cold with ECT at 43c and EOT at 28c. You need the car to be at normal operating temperature for the VCT to function properly. Get the car up to operating temperature before taking the next datalog and let us know what happens.

I believe 4 is fuel cut and spark retard only from memory. There is some discussion here about it.

Put the original strategy back in, don't change the strategy numbers. That is saying what the expected can data will be sent, not what can data is sent. Eg it's like saying "I'm using word 2019" then renaming a word doc from 2007 to docx. It might open, but it's by pure luck not by design. Unless by matched you mean both those tcm strategies already had the same strategy number. In that case it might be a matter of comparing the two strategies and seeing what is actually different, they may not be for the same model of car. If definitely recommend reverting to the old one and seeing if that fixes your issue though.

What is the torque, fuel and spark source showing in the data log? If you do a DTC read with Forscan what codes do you have? What does the rpm signal look like if you log rpm and nothing else? Could it be a crank trigger issue?

Could you take a datalog showing the tp, rpm, commanded cam angles, angle error and cam source. Try touching the throttle a tiny tiny amount and set the ghost cam to work up to 1200 rpm and see if it works. That will see if it's the idle mode being the issue or not.

It prevents the gearbox from changing gear 100x in a row if your rapidly press and release the throttle. Its there to save the gearbox, leave it on.

If you can find a PCM DMR that reliably shows the current gear and doesn't drop out to 0 during gearshifts or when the torque converter is slipping we can see if it's the right data type to patch in without any major changes. We don't have any ZF vehicles available on hand to test with. Only a 6 speed manual.

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Update. In the ZF 6 speed auto gears 4/5/6 all use the 4th gear row. This is as the gear calculation code is legacy from the BTR and does not set a gear higher than 4th gear. We have found that in almost all applications you will want full boost by 4th gear anyway, however if you do need to reduce boost 4th gear we recommend using boost by speed instead. In manual vehicles the gear is calculated for gears 1-6.

Do a DTC read with Forscan and let us know what it comes up with. Also does it go super lean and peg at 1.05 load? Some NA cals won't read over 1.05 load until air anticipation logic is adjusted. There is a thread on this. You'll see the car go super lean on boost if this is your issue though.

80k DMRs and about 32k scalars/tables. Trying to organise that into a useful list let alone figure out how to make the computer do things you want is a challenge to say the least.

You should try it on a 10r80 mustang.

Did not see this but it's supported now! 2015-2022+ support available with 32k+ ROM parameters and 80k+ DMR parameters available.

??? How long is a piece of string.

Hot tip. You can do "view all scalars" in a stock file, ctrl + a ctrl + c and paste it into Excel and save as a csv file. Might take you a while but if you do it for all common strategies you are interested in you could probably do it yourself with enough time. Then add all the files as a data source in power query editor (part of Excel) and do a query like that. Its essentially what I want to build, it has just never made it up the list in priorities.

We actually have exported all stock values of all tables/scalars to a database so we could technically add anything. We have just been resource constrained recently with trying to improve performance and stability. I've wanted to update that list for almost 2 years now!

This may be useful for some people

This may be useful for some people

Update: We have extracted the VID block and matching VID block override scalars for almost all original 2002-2016 Falcons. This means if you have lost your VID block or need original VID block defaults we can likely provide them for you. As Ford do not provide as built data for the Falcon this will hopefully assist some of you. This data is not publicly available (due to it being in a 2gb CSV file) however if there is a demand for it we can look at getting it into the editor for you. Here is an example of VSS_Source for all HACCK strategies.

Not exactly cheap. Can buy an aftermarket PCM for the price of a Bosch Motorsport configurable ABS module. They are designed for 300k track cars.