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Old Dec 9, 2003 | 03:15 PM
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OK heres the deal ive been tuning for a few days. whta ive done so far is

1.) tune from the reccomend HC tune
2.) set idle air to 8.6
3.) *PN Airflow decay by 95%
4.) reduced Main VE another 95% from 1200 down
5.) multiplied IFR table by 95%

Heres what happening...The car runs great but when i first take off and at every gear change it want to "chug chug chug" then it pulls away fine. Its like i have NO initial throttle response? If i were to nail the gas while it gear it would sit there for a split second then say "oh $hit lets roll" and be off. It pulls like a raped ape up top except for that hesitation at take off and gear changes. Anyone know what could be causing this??
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Old Dec 9, 2003 | 03:33 PM
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Your mixture calc is probably bent and only closed loop
is making it right (with some lag, hence poor throttle
response).

Need to log O2s, long & short term trims and see what
is uncovered on throttle & RPM transients.
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Old Dec 10, 2003 | 06:52 PM
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What are the specs on the cam you put in? A very huge cam can make the low rpms lazy like that.
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Old Dec 11, 2003 | 12:40 AM
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how huge is very huge? its over 230 on both sides 600 lift 112lsa
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Old Dec 11, 2003 | 11:09 AM
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I don't know, you have to ask someone with a cam the size of yours. 230 on both sides is getting there, but I don't think it's huge enough to cause your problem. I used to have a 270/270 that was pretty slugish below 3000 rpm.

It almost sounds like your injectors are plugged up.
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Old Dec 11, 2003 | 12:01 PM
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270!!! HOLY SHIET!!

that wasnt on a stock stroke was it?!
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Old Dec 11, 2003 | 12:16 PM
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I'm fighting the same issue here.. 238/240 .605/.609 112+2 cam on a small motor, and it has a hesitation right off idle if you tip into the throttle more than about 15% .. Once you break 2500 RPM it flies.
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Old Dec 11, 2003 | 12:46 PM
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I'm fighting the same issue here.. 238/240 .605/.609 112+2 cam on a small motor, and it has a hesitation right off idle if you tip into the throttle more than about 15% .. Once you break 2500 RPM it flies.
No guru here - but, I have a fairly stout cam (239/251). I increased my VE just off idle ( idle = 1200 RPM @ 70 kPa).... It's decreased 10% @ 1200, 20% @ 800, 400 RPM. Added a few percent 1200 RPM below 60kPA . Then added 10% 1600 RPM @ all kPa. So basically it's leaned out, at idle, and then as it drops kPa, as throttle transitions, it gets richer.
The real/best way to deal with (I think?) this would be to Rescale entire VE using NoGo's tuning for VE. I'm going to scan this weekend and try it. I'll let you know how it turns out. I hope I can figure out how to use ChrisB's Tuning software.FWIW.
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Old Dec 11, 2003 | 06:33 PM
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Originally Posted by binksz06
No guru here - but, I have a fairly stout cam (239/251). I increased my VE just off idle ( idle = 1200 RPM @ 70 kPa).... It's decreased 10% @ 1200, 20% @ 800, 400 RPM. Added a few percent 1200 RPM below 60kPA . Then added 10% 1600 RPM @ all kPa. So basically it's leaned out, at idle, and then as it drops kPa, as throttle transitions, it gets richer.
The real/best way to deal with (I think?) this would be to Rescale entire VE using NoGo's tuning for VE. I'm going to scan this weekend and try it. I'll let you know how it turns out. I hope I can figure out how to use ChrisB's Tuning software.FWIW.
NoGo is the Man joel
Yep, some good advice here. That VE thing on the LS1 works like the carburator accelerator pump of old, richening the mixture on throttle tip-in. Adding some to the VE at the rpms you are having problems with may very well solve the problem. It would be easy enough to try it and see what happens . . .
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Old Dec 11, 2003 | 06:35 PM
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Originally Posted by stangkillin99ss
270!!! HOLY SHIET!!

that wasnt on a stock stroke was it?!
It was a stock stroke 389 inch big-block Pontiac engine in a '67 Firebird. The car was a beast!
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Old Dec 11, 2003 | 10:15 PM
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A 230+ cam is not made for good low rpm operation on 346's.
You need to play around with the VE table and low rpm/idle timing tables to get it better.

I've adjusted my VE tables to 2400rpm and made drastic timing changes.No problems with off idle operations but took a while to get there.
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Old Dec 11, 2003 | 11:12 PM
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VE helps the throttle response. I still need to work on idle VE, but using the methods learned here my car pulls like crazy compared to stock VE. Its probably not any faster but it feels like it.

Eric
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