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Old 05-10-2005, 06:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Silverhawk_02TA
I think the O2's themselves are fine. I would say it's probably an issue with the O2 signal processing circuit inside the PCM. I think this is also the reason your general O2 waveform looks so demented. Even one component a little bit out of tolerance in that circuit could cause issues, and with the complicated interdependencies of an electronic device as complex as the PCM, it's quite possible that plugging in the MAF results in an errant induced voltage or extra load that just pushes it over the edge.

The MAF airflow reading is independent of the IAT sensor reading. The DA calc relies heavily on the IAT, which makes SD operation very dependent upon it as well. IAT only indirectly affects MAF operation through the DA calc that's used to filter the MAF reading during throttle transients. Also, I've seen your logged IAT when your trims take a ****, and it is steady.
Yeah, I just noticed that IAT always takes a long time to properly adjust, so I considered it likely that after the car sits there could be issues with where the air is coming from (ie. in front of the radiator from the bottom, or through the opening in the front), because the air temp will be different in both areas. I may cap the bottom opening off just to be sure. I wonder if there are any table differences for the IAT bias between a normal F-body and a ram-air F-body.
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I looked at the 14APR05.hpl file and it seems to me that the
O2s are kind of "soggy". I see very little change in the injector
PW despite gross changes in the STFT. I see the O2s swing up
and stick high with minimal change in air or fuel. The STFTs start
to accumulate negative "momentum" while the O2s are below
0.5V in some cases. This is just not sane.

This looks like behaviors I have seen in circuit designs where
a closed loop is being driven outside linear operation, saturates
& relaxes back, all on a timescale well outside the designed
stabilization frequency corners.

Did you mess around the proportional O2 stuff? I wonder if the
filter params might have changed to some values that destabilize
the loop?

Still I don't see why that would have a MAF/SD dependence,
other than that the two tunes might be differently mixture
biased and one might avoid the "trouble spot" by being leaner
or richer?
Old 05-10-2005, 09:55 PM
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Originally Posted by jimmyblue
I looked at the 14APR05.hpl file and it seems to me that the
O2s are kind of "soggy". I see very little change in the injector
PW despite gross changes in the STFT. I see the O2s swing up
and stick high with minimal change in air or fuel. The STFTs start
to accumulate negative "momentum" while the O2s are below
0.5V in some cases. This is just not sane.

This looks like behaviors I have seen in circuit designs where
a closed loop is being driven outside linear operation, saturates
& relaxes back, all on a timescale well outside the designed
stabilization frequency corners.

Did you mess around the proportional O2 stuff? I wonder if the
filter params might have changed to some values that destabilize
the loop?

Still I don't see why that would have a MAF/SD dependence,
other than that the two tunes might be differently mixture
biased and one might avoid the "trouble spot" by being leaner
or richer?
My O2 stuff is all back to stock, has been for a long time. I tested changing those, but I did not get any useful results. I have had my SD and MAF tables down really close (I mean really close) with no impact on this problem.
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Update: I have eliminated FRA! as the culprit. Going back to my logs, I can't really figure what it could be. I am pretty much down to either the PCM or the MAF. Does the MAF do anything funny, or supply an signal other than the MAF frequency that would make the MAF bad? I really need a stocker to eliminate that as the problem.

edit: Well apparently the MAF only puts out a frequency signal based on what it reads, so if the frequency is not changing when the trims drop, it can't be a bad MAF. Oh well.

I don't get it. Anyways, I just eliminated the PCV as the problem also.

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Old 05-28-2005, 11:57 AM
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I don't know if anybody cares, or has any other input, but I have eliminated the MAF as the culprit as well. So basically, I have eliminated:
1) MAF (borrowed one from a friend, same result)
2) COT
3) EVAP
4) PCV
5) MAF Table
6) VE Table
7) O2 Sensors

Soooo....should I do a complete reflash of the PCM? The only things left are PCM and electrical issue to the MAF.

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When building your VE tables, make sure you turn off everything!! I mean your air pump, so pull the fuse on it, turn off COT, turn off DEFCO also. All these factors will screw with your VE table building. Hope this helps. Maybe you have already, but just in case. you havent yet, try it.


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Originally Posted by Rick@Synergy
When building your VE tables, make sure you turn off everything!! I mean your air pump, so pull the fuse on it, turn off COT, turn off DEFCO also. All these factors will screw with your VE table building. Hope this helps. Maybe you have already, but just in case. you havent yet, try it.


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The air pump is completely disabled. COT is off. DFCO has been carefully re-enabled. Besides, DFCO would cause positive trims, if anything, wouldn't it? Any DFCO and proportional idle and everything else I could think of were turned off when I tuned my VE table. Trust me...I have been doing this a long time... This problem is a real PITA.
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