Roland@pcmtec

digikey will do free shipping over $60 so maybe do a group purchase, I bought 4 and got them 2-3 days later. https://www.digikey.com.au/product-detail/en/DLP-IO8-G/813-1010-ND/1894342/?itemSeq=286026595

Definitely check this out. Cat and exhaust protection will richen the motor up.

What anti virus do you have? If you can export your Windows event logs from event viewer and send them to me I can see if there is a good explanation.

1.11 can be downloaded now, ensure you are logged into the website to download https://www.pcmtec.com/downloads 0.75 will continue to work side by side 1.11 until the QA process is finished. edit: 1.11 is officially out of QA and has been released. 0.75 should no longer be used as there may be incompatibilities with the newer files.

Change the OSID and Strategy back to standard and you will be able to log everything again. Eg change PCMTY back to HACCK and change PCMTYGA back to HACCKGA This won't affect the Custom OS/Flex tune.

Made some additions to the OP

We are happy to announce we are finally into version 1.xx and have removed the Beta title! This is thanks to our QA team (Andrei) who has spent the past few months going through the software finding as many bugs and usability issues as possible. Version 1.11 brings the following new features. User Configurable Units After many requests we have now implemented dynamic units which will now let you use metric units instead of imperial! This is thanks to Scott who has spent the past two months implementing this feature. When opening a 2D table you will see the following new options available in the right click context menu. X axis - Units Y axis - Units Z - Units In the case of desired boost we have changed the Z units from inHg to psi Scalars can now be changed via their appropriate dropdown menu items. Here we have changed the injector slopes from their default of lb/s to lb/hr We also now have the ability to bulk change all units. Eg you can change the units of all temperature scalars and tables from °F to °C by utilising the new bulk change units drop down menu. Paste Special We have now added an excel like Paste Special menu to the right click context menu. This allows add, subtract, multiple, multiply by % and Y-Axis inversion (for those of you who can't get away from using other products!). Multiply by % does the following. Lets say you datalog LTFT and end up with the following errors By using the "multiply by %" when you paste, it will multiply the cells by the equivalent percentage. Eg add 1% for the top left cell and subtract 3% for the middle cells. Performance The performance of opening 2D views has been massively improved this release. You should see a 200-300% improvement in loading speed now. Stock File Downloads We have fixed the stock file download blocking opening and licensing of a file until the download has finished. On slow connections this could often block the user for several minutes. Now this is done in the background so that if you have a slow internet connection you can still continue tuning. Datalogging Whilst not available in this release we have made a large amount of progress with the datalogger thanks to our new staff member Matt. He has been busy adding USB analog input support to allow widebands and any other analog input to be datalogged. We have decided to skip the initial release of the datalogger and hold off until we have analog input support hence the delay in releasing the datalogging software. We are using the following USB analog input cable (8 analog inputs) which has been proven in the field with the Nistune (Nissan Tuning) software. The product is approximately $40 delivered (next delay delivery in Australia) which makes it an excellent cost effective analog input module. http://www.dlpdesign.com/usb/io8.php Other Improvements: Improved licensing popup message when a custom OS was enabled. This makes it clear you are paying for the Custom OS only and not being charged to license the entire vehicle again. Removed the VIN from the licensing model. Licensing is now locked to OSID and PCM Serial only now. This allows you to correct invalid or wrong VINs without having to contact support now. Silent save (of change history and partial write information) no longer updates the file date stamp, this means sorting by date now accurately shows when you last changed a file. BA Partial write now works on all flash types (some early BAs use a different internal flash chip). The licensing model has been modified to only use the Serial and Operating System ID. Previously we also used the VIN. This means you are now free to change the VIN of the vehicle without relicensing. Added "Upload currently open file" option to the help menu to allow you to easily upload the currently open tune to support. Any tunes uploaded will only be used for providing support and will remain the IP of the original user. If requested we will delete the tune from our server after providing support. Bug Fixes: Blocked user from "Exporting all changes to parameter file" when there was no stock file to compare with. This sometimes resulted in users producing parameter files with unexpected values due to there being no baseline history to compare to. Editor would crash if you changed the theme whilst a large scalar list was visible under certain conditions. Fixed rare crash when opening and saving files on certain PC configurations. Fixed the editor exiting immediately after open on some rare PC configurations. Strategy search inside of "Strategy List" would hide all filtered results, it now simply highlights them instead. Disabled the ability to perform a partial compare if either file is lacking stock file history to compare against. In the cases where one file was lacking stock history this would show strange compare results. Pasting VIN numbers into the VIN field now works correctly. Enabling custom os on a TEC file that had been previously tuner locked would remove the tuner lock. Tuner lock is now automatically added back. If you attempting to overwrite a tuner locked PCM with a stock file an error occured "You cannot merge the VIN from a tuner locked file". This is now resolved. Fixed a stock file download bug which in rare circumstances would get stuck in a loop downloading files over and over. Fixed an SSL certificate mis match warning which occured due to our hosting provider issuing a new certificate. Fixed several deadlocks that could occur locking the UI from being used. Fixed several unhandled exceptions which could occur.

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I've been thinking about this some more and it seems if Ford put 0 as the standard gain value it implies the TMAP speed density system should be able to correctly fuel in all transient conditions. This suggests if you get a rich/lean tip in/out there are issues with the closed loop O2 system or injector slopes. That said, i would be a very easy way to fudge much better drivability where you cannot improve it otherwise (eg using dekka injectors etc). It seems ford themselves do a lot of "fudge" tuning which can be seeing with the "Tuning Correction" tables etc which effectively are Alpha - N style correction maps.

The upgrade to pro is only $330! If you put an hourly figure on your time it quickly pays for itself. Not to mention all the extra parameters and getting access to the VID block editor. The main reason why we stopped the zip file is we were creating it manually, it was not practical to keep it up to date so we added the automatic stock file wizard which creates fresh updated files as you need them. You can be ensured that these files are always up to date as the editor checks for updates on startup.

The tune.

What state are you in? If you are looking to do the flex kit on the BA v8, get in touch with Danny from Pirotta Performance and we can come up with a solution. If you are in VIC it would be preferable to go to a workshop that has done these before, there are a few which have worked closely with us doing the R&D for the new kits (eg the BA I6 kit etc) which make it a lot easier for us to get it working. We can liaise with Danny and the workshop when it comes time.

Trans temp is a good suggestion if it is available. Are you looking at doing this on your vehicle?

Mk1 or Mk2? If its a Mk1 I believe modifying the front axle ratio is possible, mk2 ignores the VID block afaik so there may be nothing you can do in that case.

We haven't had any workshops request a solution for a V8 BA yet, however when we do the answer will most likely be attempting to repin the boost sensor input (it may still exist on the PCM due to the V8s having the C connector) or using the power steering pressure sensor.

The procedure is still the same, just use the higher resolution tables instead, it should be obvious which ones are which.

Which vehicle and what transmission is this?

Idle spark is PID controlled to reach setpoint. So to get your desired idle RPM it needs 15 degrees, if it was commanding 20 degrees your idle rpm would increase. So if you want 20 degrees at idle there are two options, increase the idle rpm so it idles higher (and hence commands more spark). Or reduce the idle airflow, so that more torque (and hence spark) is required to obtain the idle rpm setpoint. The idle air tables are only used on open loop, eg decel or return to idle which is why you see more idle hang and no improvement. Once at idle the PCM also uses a PID to control the airflow. So to reduce idle airflow when in closed loop idle you need to modify the maximum airflow clip. I'm not sure what scalar this is off the top of my head, but I'll look it up when I get a chance.

The file you read from your car is licensed, so it has the latest updated templates which is what is downloaded when you see Downloading updated templates at startup. Only licensed files get updated. The only way unlicensed files get updated is if you use the stock wizard to download them, or someone else who has licensed the file sends it to you. Hence why those files are out of date in that old zip file. We do this as part of the copy protection so we do not have to ship the entire database of templates with the software.

Are you talking about the old zip file from early 2018? If you are using that those files will be completely out of date and will cause the issues you mention. You need to use the stock file wizard available in the professional version.

Are you using an old version perhaps? I just created a fresh stock file using HAEDJG4 and I see the following. I noticed that the "Delta Temperature - °F) etc are missing in y ours. Can you download the latest version of 0.75 off the website (it should show version 0.75.6988.19134 if you have the latest) You can check via Help -> About or by scrolling to the top of the log. If you are using the latest version and you still have the same problem, can you go to This PC > Document > PCMTec > 0.75 > Stock Files and delete HAEDJG4 Then restart the editor and then open the file again via Calibration Tools -> Create Stock File. Let me know how this goes. It sounds like either an old version of the software, it it has found an old stock file and failed to update it. Cheers Roland

Spark min clip

Good question finnigan. I actually had no idea this was 0 in most calibrations. This means there is no tip in / tip out fueling at all in most cars. Probably explains why I personally had such poor result many years ago (eg zero change) when playing with the pump shot table! The tip logic is as follows air_lb = Air mass scaled against ECT in (auF0205) and also put through a low pass filter. If (air_lb > auF1540 (tip in threshold)) transient_extra_air = auF1156 (tip in gain) * air_lb If (air_lb < auF2501 (tip out threshold)) transient_extra_air = auF1303 (tip out gain) * air_lb transient_extra_air is then added to the final airmass value which is fed into the injector slope model to determine fuel mass. So if you set auF1156 to 0.1 and your coolant is 156°F you would get the following extra air mass added to the calc: auF0205 (0.986) * 0.1 = 0.0846 so you would see an extra 8.46% fuel injected during a tip in event.

Do you know what FG specifically it came from? As you will need a base tune to compare it to. There may be some maps that are only available in the workshop edition so you may not be able to compare them all, however all the main important spark and speed density maps will be there. Bad fuel economy usually indicates a problem with O2 trimming. What are your O2 LTFT (Long term fuel trim) percentages? Once you get a base tune to compare it to I recommend comparing the speed density maps between them. Now the BA and FG use different resolution maps (and different IDs) so these will need rescaling and massaging if you want to copy them over. You can use the axes rescale wizard to do this, there is a thread on how to do this:

Quoted for emphasis. You have to test and datalog each change individually, otherwise you are guessing.