Practical Standalone Tuning: Step 1 : ECU Configuration and Testing ( Touchscreen )
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Step 1 : ECU Configuration and Testing ( Touchscreen )
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| 00:00 | We're now going to repeat our ECU configuration and testing step using the hand controller. |
| 00:05 | We've got our ECU powered up and this is the screen we will find ourselves on. |
| 00:09 | What we want to do is start by clicking on the wizards and then sniper wizard. |
| 00:15 | Now, we want to select our particular throttle body injection type and of course we are sniper 2. |
| 00:21 | Next, we want to set our number of cylinders which we know is going to be 8 and we'll click next. |
| 00:27 | Now, we choose our engine displacement so what we can do here is a few ways of manipulating this with 350 cubic inch and we can sort of get ourselves close and then we can fine tune that using these little arrows and once we're where we need to be we can again click next. |
| 00:44 | Now, we want to choose our target idle speed and really this is going to come down to the particular engine and how aggressive the cam is. |
| 00:52 | In our case I think we should be able to get this thing to idle reasonably nicely, somewhere around about 750 RPM. |
| 00:59 | So, again we can click somewhere on this little sliding scale and then fine tune using the arrows and we'll click next. |
| 01:05 | Now, we choose our cam type which as we've already discussed is going to be stock or mild, click next and then if we've got any power adders which of course we do not so we'll click on none and then our ignition setup. |
| 01:19 | So, again if we were using the existing distributor that came with our engine, we weren't going with our hyperspark, we would just click on coil negative which we've got highlighted here, again just getting that RPM signal into the Sniper 2. |
| 01:33 | In our case though we've got our hyperspark distributor so that's the only difference here in our configuration if we are running the hyperspark and we'll click next. |
| 01:43 | In our case here we have our standard hyperspark and we'll click next and we can choose our wide open throttle ignition timing. |
| 01:51 | So, obviously again if we aren't running the hyperspark, this is not a setup that we need to consider here. |
| 01:57 | So, we'll start with something reasonably conservative here, maybe something in the region of 26°, it's going to be very conservative, almost guarantee we're not going to have any problem with knock at that point and of course we can fine tune once we get further into things. |
| 02:13 | So, just because I'm fussy here, we'll get that exactly at 26°. |
| 02:17 | So, now we've created a file here, well we're creating a file and this will upload the file into the ECU and it will ask us to cycle the ignition in order to complete the operation so we can click OK and do exactly what we're told. |
| 02:35 | So, at this point our base configuration is made but we also want to have a look at our sensor inputs and just make sure that everything makes sense just like we did on the laptop. |
| 02:44 | So, in order to do this we can go into our monitor screen and we can click on our multi and our sensors and this will give us a display of everything much like we saw on the laptop screen and of course everything matches up just like we saw on the laptop. |
| 03:01 | Again, we can look at our throttle position here and we'll cycle the throttle through to 100%, we know everything's working there, we've got our manifold pressure, coolant temp sensor and our manifold air temp all in Fahrenheit. |
| 03:14 | So, at this point we know that the inputs are functioning correctly, all of them are reading sensibly, we can move on to the next step of our process. |
