Okay Murphster and the rest of the gang,
I read many of your replies at least three times. Tonight, after changing the oil, fuel filter and adjusting my homemade CAI, I went out to experiment for about 2.5 hours.
I played with the T+ trying different settings until finally, I found a setting that did not allow the 3rd yellow stay on the Knock gauge.
According to the intructions for the Extender chip, my timing was set at 21/19...93. So, I took my T+ and my Extender chip charts and tried different things. I tell you what, those 215's do not stand a chance, I was rolling out of the gate then nailing the car, and as soon as it made about 8psi, the tires spun like crazy.
Run after run after run, I found that my car liked: MAF{Base} 15% rich MAF{Wot} 6% richer & SPARK{Base} -2* retarded Spark{Wot} -4* retarded. At this setting the car felt pretty good, especially since I hardly turn the ignition off during this testing/tuning session.I know she was "heat soaked" but ironically, the temp gauge never got passed 180* and the oil Press stayed at 30-32 idle and 65-70 cruising. Boost gauge flashed 18psi on two instances, but for the most part it was steady at 16psi.
I know that I am leaving some on the table by running 93 oct and using such a rich setting, but at least it's safer. The third yellow flashes, then it quickly goes away. I did hit the red lights on three to four ocassions but each time I quickly lifted on the throttle...so I hope I did not hurt anything.
What do you guys think of my tuning methods?:smile:
Glad to hear you finally got things coming together.
Keep in mind however that the timing changes you make to BASE and WOT are arithmatically added. For example, you have -2 in BASE, and -4 in WOT.
So for base youre chip has moved from 21/19 to 19/17..
And when going into the parameters that Translator recognizes as WOT your timing will then be 15/13.
That's not necesarilly a bad thing, but always keep in mind how the timing settings relate to each other.
Your car seems to like it.
