maxed out values?
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 2:13 pm
So I have been having terrible luck with my car and it pretty much has been un drivable since november of last year. We were diognosing the harness and coil packs, and I even got new coil packs (spitfire) to hopefully replace them if they were actually bad. I was popping ignitors like it was no ones business and the coils were getting hot fast! I finally found the root to the problem and my ignition dwell was turned up to the max value!!! I know for a fact that I never messed with this but somehow it got raised and then loaded on my ecu when I hooked up with the laptop one day. I never put 2 and 2 together and thought it could be a tune issue because I never made adjustments that could have effected that. Well upon further inspection I have noticed several other parameters were un necessarly raised to max values for no reason as well! It will be impossible for me to log this or do anything with this because the problem started in the fall of last year so I couldnt even guess which version of nistune I had at the time and I really didnt need the race car much in the winter anyways so I just messed with it here and there trying to figure it out.
Is or was this a known problem with one of the versions? Is it safe to say this wont happen again? I had about 4-5 different bin files effected by this and I have no idea how it happened. Im just glad it never has happened to anyone elses car when I messed with theirs. Its just crazy that it must have been the version of the address file or the version of nistune I was using changed the paramiters that bad (255) all the way across on dwell time, temp enrich, crank adv, tps closed timing, timing adv decell, throttle open offset, crank enrich, crank enrich offset, engine crank offset, decell offset ratio, decell loss rpm, and decell loss temp.
Has anyone else had ANYTHING like this happen to them? It has surely cost me some money buying ignitors and new coils! I want to make sure this problem is GONE. Looks like Im going to have to retune asap.
Is or was this a known problem with one of the versions? Is it safe to say this wont happen again? I had about 4-5 different bin files effected by this and I have no idea how it happened. Im just glad it never has happened to anyone elses car when I messed with theirs. Its just crazy that it must have been the version of the address file or the version of nistune I was using changed the paramiters that bad (255) all the way across on dwell time, temp enrich, crank adv, tps closed timing, timing adv decell, throttle open offset, crank enrich, crank enrich offset, engine crank offset, decell offset ratio, decell loss rpm, and decell loss temp.
Has anyone else had ANYTHING like this happen to them? It has surely cost me some money buying ignitors and new coils! I want to make sure this problem is GONE. Looks like Im going to have to retune asap.