I have joined the lambda gang! couple questions
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I have joined the lambda gang! couple questions Ok so I watched the Banish DVD and decided to do everything in lambda and not afr. Gas around here is e10, I spray 100% meth so figured lambda would be easier. Have some questions.
So when I was tuning with afr I would aim for 10.9ish afr on meth.
Now that I log lambda should I should for the lambda equivalent of 10.9 or the lambda equivalent of say 11.5afr?
Is there anyway in hptuners to set the stoich in lambda? It's factory at 14.68xxx afr. If it can't be changed to lambda should I change it to e10 which is 14.1afr?
Thanks
Alex
So when I was tuning with afr I would aim for 10.9ish afr on meth.
Now that I log lambda should I should for the lambda equivalent of 10.9 or the lambda equivalent of say 11.5afr?
Is there anyway in hptuners to set the stoich in lambda? It's factory at 14.68xxx afr. If it can't be changed to lambda should I change it to e10 which is 14.1afr?
Thanks
Alex
Ok so I watched the Banish DVD and decided to do everything in lambda and not afr. Gas around here is e10, I spray 100% meth so figured lambda would be easier. Have some questions.
So when I was tuning with afr I would aim for 10.9ish afr on meth.
Now that I log lambda should I should for the lambda equivalent of 10.9 or the lambda equivalent of say 11.5afr?
Is there anyway in hptuners to set the stoich in lambda? It's factory at 14.68xxx afr. If it can't be changed to lambda should I change it to e10 which is 14.1afr?
Thanks
Alex
So when I was tuning with afr I would aim for 10.9ish afr on meth.
Now that I log lambda should I should for the lambda equivalent of 10.9 or the lambda equivalent of say 11.5afr?
Is there anyway in hptuners to set the stoich in lambda? It's factory at 14.68xxx afr. If it can't be changed to lambda should I change it to e10 which is 14.1afr?
Thanks
Alex
Lambda will always be 1 volt at stoich for any given fuel so when your reading 1 volt with an e10 fuel your afr is 14.1 to 1. If you were getting your best power before at 10.9 afr using e10 fuel the lambda equivalent would be figured by dividing the target afr by the lamda afr for the given fuel. In your situation that would be 10.9 divided by 14.1 giving you around .77 lambda to be at the same as your 10.9 afr. The only problem with your setup is your adding two types of fuel into the mix and you have no real idea what the actual stoich is with the mix of the meth and e10 is. That being said you didn't know it before either, you were just using the 10.9 afr I assume because that's where the car was making the best power.
Thats what makes using lambda so awesome, it is always the same thing
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Ok so I run a max of 20 psi on a 370 ci t4 88mm turbo with dual 15gph meth nozzles. I'm going to go for .77-.79 check plugs and let it rip.
Now second part is setting stoich in the factory pcm. Can you set it with hptuners to lambda? If not should it be set to 14.1 or so?
Now second part is setting stoich in the factory pcm. Can you set it with hptuners to lambda? If not should it be set to 14.1 or so?
doesn't matter what the stoich of the mix is, lambda is lambda for any hydrocarbon. if you have 65 percent meth and 35 percent ethanol, the wideband gauge will read 14.68 (give or take the setup on the gauge) if the fueling is at 1.00 lambda which in reality should be somewhere near the 8 AFRs or so if the gauge read in AFR units. The gauge reads in lambda units and uses a simple calculation to spit out an AFR number based on isooctane,e10. Whenever you are on e85 for example, if your wideband gauge reads 11.5 AFR at WOT the sensor/gauge is reading .79 lambda units. The OXYGEN sensor reads OXYGEN content not hydrocarbon content, you can put in any hydrocarbon you want and the units will forever be 1.00 lambda=ideal for fuel consumption efficiency and,depending on the setup, .79 being ideal for medium boost and .87 for NA.....
Thats what makes using lambda so awesome, it is always the same thing
Thats what makes using lambda so awesome, it is always the same thing
The other nice thing about tuning with lambda is that its very easy to tune with it because lambda at stoich is always 1 volt so that means that any portion of lambda is a percentage. If your target is .77 lambda and your logs are at .75 you can take out 2% fuel and be at your target.
Ok so I run a max of 20 psi on a 370 ci t4 88mm turbo with dual 15gph meth nozzles. I'm going to go for .77-.79 check plugs and let it rip.
Now second part is setting stoich in the factory pcm. Can you set it with hptuners to lambda? If not should it be set to 14.1 or so?
Now second part is setting stoich in the factory pcm. Can you set it with hptuners to lambda? If not should it be set to 14.1 or so?
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When I refer to changing the stoich setting Im not talking about the gauge or even loging. Im refering to the editor part, in the tune the factory sets stoich at 14.6xxx. It can be changed to whatever. Are most entering in a different number for lets say e10? Does changing that have any effect?
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1 volt Lambda will only read 14.7 afr assuming your wideband is only set up for gasoline, some widebands controllers can be configured for the fuel being used.
The other nice thing about tuning with lambda is that its very easy to tune with it because lambda at stoich is always 1 volt so that means that any portion of lambda is a percentage. If your target is .77 lambda and your logs are at .75 you can take out 2% fuel and be at your target.
The other nice thing about tuning with lambda is that its very easy to tune with it because lambda at stoich is always 1 volt so that means that any portion of lambda is a percentage. If your target is .77 lambda and your logs are at .75 you can take out 2% fuel and be at your target.
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Verdad Gallardo When I refer to changing the stoich setting Im not talking about the gauge or even loging. Im refering to the editor part, in the tune the factory sets stoich at 14.6xxx. It can be changed to whatever. Are most entering in a different number for lets say e10? Does changing that have any effect?
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I use 14.12 for all pump gas cars I tune. You cannot change the editor to command lambda, it uses that afr setting so it knows how much fuel to spray relative to the amount of air it has measured/calculated.
Are you logging directly in lambda or are you converting to lambda from afr? You should be logging directly.
Are you logging directly in lambda or are you converting to lambda from afr? You should be logging directly.
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I believe I would be logging direct. My wideband has a dial on the gauge to switch to to display lambda. I found online the proper setup in the hptuners for logging lambda. It reads lambda on my logs. My command lambda is afr high res/stoich of 14.1 for e10. So thats converted.
Is that what you mean?
Is that what you mean?
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I believe I would be logging direct. My wideband has a dial on the gauge to switch to to display lambda. I found online the proper setup in the hptuners for logging lambda. It reads lambda on my logs. My command lambda is afr high res/stoich of 14.1 for e10. So thats converted.
Is that what you mean?
Is that what you mean?
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