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Old Jan 21, 2004 | 06:41 PM
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I’m looking for info from people who run an impedance converter with the stock PCM.

Who makes the best one?

Did you have any issues with the install?
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Old Jan 21, 2004 | 07:10 PM
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I run one. I made it.

atleast on mine, it was a simple splice inline with the 8 injector wires from the PCM. A 12V supply to the box, and a ground. Then tune for the injectors.

There is a point where you can't get the pulse width small enough due to PCM limits, and you will have to run open loop at idle via the PE table. Or run open loop all the time. I use leaded fuel only, and removed the stock O2's in favor of an in car wideband. So it didn't bother me any
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Old Jan 21, 2004 | 11:17 PM
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There is a point where you can't get the pulse width small enough due to PCM limits, and you will have to run open loop at idle via the PE table. Or run open loop all the time. I use leaded fuel only, and removed the stock O2's in favor of an in car wideband. So it didn't bother me any
I was afraid of this. What is the point where you can't get the pulse width small enough? Is that with any low impenance injector or just the really big ones. What size, if any, will idle in closed loop.

Anyone having good results with the bigger HighZs.
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Old Jan 22, 2004 | 01:41 PM
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Anyone running this http://www.acceleronics.com/ ?
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Old Jan 22, 2004 | 08:03 PM
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We have installed several of Acceleronics inverters without any issues on C5's! Drivability is a dream. Our latest dyno was 701 rwhp w/75# injectors. We are still playing with the intercooler so we have not put it back on the dyno. With the stk inj offset and proper VE tuning this thing is a dream come true (as long as you have enough fuel pumps!) I will never run those slow *** 50#ers again! Check out the #'s! http://www.vettepieces.com/dyno/dyno_rich_02.html
Since this dyno we reworked the torque converter (2000 stall-oops to 3900!) and pulled a 10.79 smokin the drag radials for half the track! Then we drove it home! No trailers here! We have dyno emissions tests to boot!

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Old Jan 23, 2004 | 10:23 AM
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With the stk inj offset and proper VE tuning this thing is a dream come true (as long as you have enough fuel pumps
Did you tune this without the MAF or did you have to play with the VE tables to get the idle right? It sounds like you have gotten pretty good at this. Thanks for the info.

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Old Jan 23, 2004 | 11:12 AM
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I'm looking to find out what size lowZ injectors you can run without having to fight to make it idle. Stock offsets and just injector flow tuning is what I'm hoping for (for non WOT tuning).
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having it idle is not really the issue. It's trying to run closed loop at idle, the PCM will clamp the pulse width at idle with anything much larger than a 70'ish injector. The fuel trims continue to try and shorten up the pulse, when you come off idle you're in a huge lean hole because of the fuel trims.

offsets and IFR are all you really need to mess with if you stay below a 72 or so injector.
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Matt, now, when you say that happens, is that after you have gotten zero trims at idle?

I saw somewhere that ChrisB or LJ had posted success getting them to work with lean idle trims, what do you think about that?
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Old Jan 23, 2004 | 01:30 PM
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where are the zero trims coming from?

the clamped pulse width is uneffected by anything the trims do, short or long. So the trims continue to learn down, until they can't go any more. So both long and shorts are full negative. As soon an you give it any throttle, and it needs more fuel than the clamped pulse width you have to drive through the full negative trims.

the are ways around it, PE at idle to turn off the trims or open loop. you can't mess w/ the IFR or the MAF curve cause the minimum clamp overrides everything it seems.
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Old Jan 23, 2004 | 03:54 PM
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Originally Posted by y2khawk
[...]the are ways around it, PE at idle to turn off the trims or open loop. [...]

Yep, those are the only current options afaik. LJ mentioned adding the ability to have a constant negative offset to some of the new acceleronics boxes - say it was 1msec. A reported pulsewidth of 2msec would actually be 1msec, 18msec would be 17, etc. You could compensate for this by altering the maf curve, since on-time will be ~ to airflow - but as you got larger it would have a smaller effect.

On the other hand say the unit clamped at 1.5msec - this would give you the ability to run 0.5msec pulewidths.

it would take a bit of playing around to learn ho to properly compensate, but it is definitely do-able, and would *probably* fix that issue.

But much simple is to just run PE at idle.
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But much simple is to just run PE at idle.
So what is the trick to setting this up in LS1edit? Do I change the "MAP to enable" to be above my MAP at idle or is it more complex than that? I don't see much else having to do with idle in the fuel tab.

Thanks for the info guys.

-Geoff
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So what is the trick to setting this up in LS1edit? Do I change the "MAP to enable" to be above my MAP at idle or is it more complex than that? I don't see much else having to do with idle in the fuel tab.

Thanks for the info guys.

-Geoff
My guess is that it is in the PE enablement tables (In the Fuel tab). There is one that is throttle% x RPM. I'm guessing you just set the low RPMs to go into PE with 0% TP and then you jump back out of PE once the RPMs go past 1000.
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My guess is that it is in the PE enablement tables (In the Fuel tab). There is one that is throttle% x RPM. I'm guessing you just set the low RPMs to go into PE with 0% TP and then you jump back out of PE once the RPMs go past 1000.

OK, I see that, then do I set my PE vs RPM table to 1.0 at the same RPM's?

-Geoff
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Old Jan 23, 2004 | 07:42 PM
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Did you tune this without the MAF or did you have to play with the VE tables to get the idle right? It sounds like you have gotten pretty good at this. Thanks for the info.

-Geoff
All I can say is to read the Stickies in the tuning section. I do mess with the MAF only if modified, otherwise I am a VE man. All tables seem to calculate from it, even those that LS1 edit does not allow us to see!
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