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That looks awesome mate. I think it will allow much more precise and quicker shift tuning.
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Rolls, with the speed/gear/etc wizard part, could you implement an actual gear "checkbox" that would recalculate the rpm/speed/oss boxes based on what gear number is entered?
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That's the article that I looked at too.
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Yeah true ay. Not everyone has the time or inclination to be frigging around building everything themselves.
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27 minutes ago, Roland@pcmtec said:
If you are poor and handy electrically you can always do the old school method of a microphone wrapped in foam inside a metal tube screwed onto something on the block, then hook this up to an amplifier (low pass filter recommended) and noise cancelling head phones.
Lol is being poor a prerequisite? I prefer to think of myself as frugal and self sufficient ?
I bought something similar to this but not this exact one. I opened it up, desoldered the microphone and ran a couple of meters of speaker wire to a bosch donut sensor. I bolted it to the knock sensor location on the block (on a 5 litre holden) and you can hear everything very clearly.
The only issue I found was when the engine noise got too loud it would crap out, presumably due to too much signal input.
I haven't messed with it further but I'm sure you could fix it up with mechanical or electrical methods.
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3 hours ago, finnigan001 said:
AFRs would slowly but gradually run all the way down to 10:1 then rich(off the scale.)
I had a o2 sensor fail that caused that. I tried a few second hand ones I had lying around and you could see in the scanner that they were at various stages of stuffedness. Apparently they don't like rough handling so if you've dropped or banged it then get a new one.
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Tl;dr
If you aren't tuning it yourself or aren't willing to pay for a months worth of dyno time, let your tuner pick your cams and injectors.
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I do find it a bit odd that people don't know how the kickdown switch works but oh well. I guess none of us know everything.
As per the reply above, when the pedal is just touching the kickdown switch the car is at full throttle. There is no need to push further as the throttle is already wide open and the only thing that will happen is the car will kick down a gear or 2.
You can make a pull from 1500rpm this way providing you are in manual mode.
Example: Select manual mode, apply 20% throttle or so and click the shifter until you are in 4th, push pedal until just touching the kickdown switch, note on scanner that the throttle is wide open (80 odd degrees or whatever), make your run.
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3 minutes ago, will15 said:
Well there you go, it really was a pain kicking back all the time hahaha.
It's also less than ideal on a dyno with a high powered car as there's a chance that something will break. The car would probably never see that much load on the street.
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I just had a quick look and I've got a 4th gear run starting at 53kph and just over 1500rpm.
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Yep. You can see that the extra pedal travel past the detent does nothing to the throttle opening when you look at your scanner.
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In manual mode it won't kick down.
The throttle is considered wide open when the pedal is just touching the detent. It doesn't need to touch the floor.
You can pick a gear, press the pedal until it touches the detent and it'll wind out without kicking back.
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Yeah mate all in time. ?
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37 minutes ago, Roland@pcmtec said:
The alternative is get the can bus input working instead.
That sounds like it will appeal to a larger audience and have a much wider range of uses.
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I did think so but I wanted to be sure.
Flex fuel with high or low boost on a more or less stock pcm is still pretty amazing. What more does the average to slightly crazy car enthusiast need?
You guys are nailing it ?
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54 minutes ago, Roland@pcmtec said:
E85/98 with a rotary dial for variable boost.
Lemme just ask a stupid question here. Does this mean that you can still have a flex tune but have variable boost?
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Is this something that will work with it? It uses a OBDII pass-through connector.
https://www.aemelectronics.com/products/gauges/digital-gauges/x-series-wideband-uego-OBDII
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7 minutes ago, Roland@pcmtec said:
As they don't own a workshop we haven't advertised them online but I can ask them if you personally want?
Nah it's all good. Thanks tho.
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Good stuff. How can people get onto the Northern suburbs guys?
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4 minutes ago, Roland@pcmtec said:
We've converted a large number of the big shops Australia wide now.
What the go with South Australian shops? Are any on board yet?
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57 minutes ago, Roland@pcmtec said:
Anything is possible if there is a business case for developing it.
Everyone who uses a this may well choose pcmtec over haltech considering the race oriented features that pcmtec already has or could have.
I know you're focussed on the here and now but with a few more features and the capability to live tune, pcmtec will be the number one pick for falcon tuning, if it isn't heading that way already.
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On 10/10/2018 at 3:28 PM, Roland@pcmtec said:
If we get enough demand we will do a CAN based IO extender for the PCM. You could do a lot with this. Right now we've picked off all the low hanging fruit so we will see how many people start asking for other features.
Right now focus is on getting the custom OS stuff into the editor and getting the datalogger released.
I was just browsing intake manifolds and it got me wondering...What are the chance of being able to run 12 injectors with the the other 6 being able to be staged? Perhaps the 2nd set could be batch fired if it can't be done sequentially.
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Oh. I don't know as I haven't tried. I'm sure you'll get an answer fairly soon tho.
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1 hour ago, will15 said:
If I have all ready had the car licensed with hp tunes and then retuned and licensed with pcm. Could I then read the tune again with hp and then save to the ngauge and possibly reflash it back then with ngauge. Or would this cause licensing problems with pcm tech?
On 8/12/2018 at 6:30 PM, Seanno said:What happens if another flash tuner ie hpt or sct reads this custom os?
On 8/12/2018 at 7:45 PM, Roland@pcmtec said:SCT doesn't read existing tunes.
HPTuners will give a checksum error as they won't support it.
I think this might be the answer.
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I'll have a go too if it's on the cards. I'd need some free credits too tho cos it's a different car. My birthdays in August so it can be an early b'day prezzie ?