S14 KA24DE fuel enrichment under throttle stab/crank enrich
Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 9:16 am
Car is a 1995 240sx KA24DE.
For the most part, I would say that my car/setup is tuned pretty good (idles good, partial throttle is smooth, WOT is dead nuts on)...there's just a few small things or annoyances I'm trying to fine tune. The list is below.
1) fuel enrichment under acceleration - let's say I'm at idle or cruising around at a steady 14-15:1 range and then I just go almost 100% with the throttle, for a brief moment/split second the throttle goes from 14:1 to 10.8:1 range and then immediately to the appropriate open loop value under WOT (11.8:1 till redline)...it happens so quick that it's almost hard to notice on the wideband but it seems like it kills engine response somewhat and bogs down for a split second...what table do I need to modify that's causing the issue I'm describing?
2) crank enrich/warmup - the engine fires up just fine but for the first 15 seconds or so as the motor warms up, I have to keep the throttle near 50% to prevent it from idling too low and dying...now, I don't have an idle air valve on the car so I was thinking it was either because of that (where the ECU would normally raise idle dynamically on startup and warmup) or because it's possibly too rich in that scenario...I can't measure how rich it's running under cranking or idling obviously until the wideband 02 sensor warms up...now once the wideband sensor warms up, it shows up first around 12:1 afrs and linearly rises until coolant temps reach ~170 deg....questions are:
ryan
I can post screenshots of any tables if requested.
For the most part, I would say that my car/setup is tuned pretty good (idles good, partial throttle is smooth, WOT is dead nuts on)...there's just a few small things or annoyances I'm trying to fine tune. The list is below.
1) fuel enrichment under acceleration - let's say I'm at idle or cruising around at a steady 14-15:1 range and then I just go almost 100% with the throttle, for a brief moment/split second the throttle goes from 14:1 to 10.8:1 range and then immediately to the appropriate open loop value under WOT (11.8:1 till redline)...it happens so quick that it's almost hard to notice on the wideband but it seems like it kills engine response somewhat and bogs down for a split second...what table do I need to modify that's causing the issue I'm describing?
2) crank enrich/warmup - the engine fires up just fine but for the first 15 seconds or so as the motor warms up, I have to keep the throttle near 50% to prevent it from idling too low and dying...now, I don't have an idle air valve on the car so I was thinking it was either because of that (where the ECU would normally raise idle dynamically on startup and warmup) or because it's possibly too rich in that scenario...I can't measure how rich it's running under cranking or idling obviously until the wideband 02 sensor warms up...now once the wideband sensor warms up, it shows up first around 12:1 afrs and linearly rises until coolant temps reach ~170 deg....questions are:
- a) what AFR do you guys typically try to run under warmup conditions in this scenario (it's around 70 deg. F ambient in the morning right now)
b) if I have it set too rich, then which table do I need to be modifying to get it to not stall under startup/warmup without having an IACV? (is it crank enrich or crank offset?)
c) how does neutral idle target rpm/stabilization table fit into all of this? or is that dependent on using an IACV?
d) or do I need to leave things where they are at and just install an idle air valve and be done since that will dynamically raise idle under startup/warmup and then level out when coolant temps are stabilized?
ryan
I can post screenshots of any tables if requested.