Learning to tune

[sands vsParticipant vs commodore View build HERE Member since: March 1, 2015 Posts: 619]

you guys should take a look here too..

 

 

http://pcmhacking.net/forums/index.php

[vs manta 218Participant Vs hsv manta View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 796]

Yes im on there, havent posted on it but iv been snooping around lol

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[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Hi Pete, good onya mate for taking this on, no doubt will be a steep learning curve but has to be pretty satisfying to do t all yourself.  You have done everything else why tune it too.  Not sure if you are a reader or not but if you are after some books to understand the principles of the actual tune (not the ECU) my tuner recommended this book to me, but also although its old, a book called “Tuning for Speed” by Phil Irving, is considered by old school tuners as a bit of a bible.   Its old but all the principals still apply, its just with electronic control you have so much more scope to control everything.  Phil Irving was actually an Aussie who was world renown back in the day, pretty cool guy…

When you get stuck into be good to start a new clean thread and describe your progress etc, its something I am sure a lot of us would love to get some basic understanding of, at least follow your progress

 

[vs manta 218Participant Vs hsv manta View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 796]

Thanks gary

I will be down loading that for sure

It just carnt be that hard, sure to be a professional tuner and get it right in a resonasble time frame but on your own car you have all the time in the world and i have warnings from wide band and egt for fail safe so its something worth doin for me

 

Iv been seeing people how they do tuning on there own cars and it really isnt that hard

When considering can buy efi live for under $1000 it will save money just in the instance of a diff gear change and wanting to correct speedo

Or if i want to change where water meth kicks in i can clean up the afr or if i decide to throw 100hp of nos i can pull 4 degrees of timing out at the push of a button

 

And could do a second tune for e85 when i get a bit more experience

 

Or say i get a shit batch of fuel i could pull a few degrees just like that

Ever since i got the wide band/egt data logging system it was always the plan to one day learn and that day is near

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Totally agree mate, if I was a bit younger with more time I would have a go too.  I mean its not like you are starting with an engine that’s not running.  You have a base line tune, so I imagine you can just start to make some small adjustments to that and worse case reload the original tune?

[Anonymous View build HERE Member since: January 1, 1970 Posts: 0]

vs manta 218 wrote:

It just runs a ls1 OS so i can use any program

Cool, be prepared to lose a BIG Chunk of your life

Another handy feature of EFI Live is being able to store a few files on the Dongle so if anything ever goes wrong you can load a known working backup in and continue on your way!

[vs manta 218Participant Vs hsv manta View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 796]

Yes thats exactly it, can save orgional tune and work on it and if i fail go back and start again

 

Its not like i will be making massive adjustments, i will only be doin little fine tweaks to make things better

Im not building a tune from scratch, i will leave that part for a pro at first

 

And yes i know it will takena large chunk of my life but thats half the fun

[KroozerParticipant Forbes, NSW91 VN SS View build HERE Member since: February 19, 2015 Posts: 336]

VRSenator065 wrote:

Totally agree mate, if I was a bit younger with more time I would have a go too.

What do you mean by that? Hahaha You are a empty nester should have all the time in the world! hahaha 

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

lol I wish, running a business, building (finishing)a senator, building a kombi, organising a holiday, starting a Forum, learning guitar. Man i sooooo wish I was 20 years younger    All fun though

 

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