01-16-2024, 08:07 AM | #15 |
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So, I agree with pretty much everything everyone said here. The calculated AFR is probably not going to match the actual AFR unless every variable is perfectly accounted for, and the engine perfectly consumes the delivered fuel under all conditions. In other words, it's not gonna happen.
I also feel you on wanting someone to actually test it, and prove it out to you. So, I did. Please see the screenshots below. This is a car I was doing some tuning on that has a good wideband in it. I created your Math channel with Mass Airflow divided by Instantaneous Fuel Flow Estimate, and because this car has ID1300x injectors, the entire tune is scaled in half, so I divided the result by 2 in order to make it come out right. The bottom-most row of graphing compares the the calculated AFR (white) against the wideband (red). The results are about what I would expect. It trends the same as the actual AFR in most places, but they separate, sometimes significantly, in a few places. This is likely due to several of the factors mentioned in the posts above - the fuel flow is estimated, the airflow is a calibrated amount subject to inaccuracies, etc. I would not consider this approach a very useful tuning tool, narrow-band O2 sensors will give you a ballpark to shoot for in the absence of an actual wideband O2 sensor. If it's anything with boost on board, a wideband should be considered a requirement before any tuning occurs. I like the idea though. And I love playing with Math channels - you can absolutely do some unique things there to get views into various pieces of engine/vehicle operation.
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01-16-2024, 08:34 AM | #16 | |
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01-16-2024, 08:53 AM | #17 |
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Doesn't the ECM get it's AFR info from the O2 Sensors and MAF sensor while in the close loop mode? Also on the Gen5 Zl's do they go into open loop mode at WOT? Thanks in advance for your answer.
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01-16-2024, 09:11 AM | #18 | |
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Except it doesn’t use MAF for AFR. It uses a comparison of MAF to VE (actually on these I think VVE) to calculate how much fuel it thinks it needs, turns on the injectors for a length of time it thinks it needs, and then compares it to whether the narrowband say it was rich or lean. If it doesn’t get it correct, it adjusts things to “trim” it back to correct. This is very much a simplified explanation. I could go somewhat deeper, but my knowledge doesn’t cover all of the details of all of the variables it uses in these calculations and table look ups. |
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01-16-2024, 10:19 AM | #19 |
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Bro lol. You bought a $35-$40k car, $550 for HPT plus a laptop, but want to skimp on a $200 wideband? For real?
Also the LSA has been around for 15 years. There's nothing new to it. Playing with bypass springs pretending to increase boost and trying to trick the ECM into reading accurate AFRs may be fun and all, but the recipes for reliable power are out there...swap pullies, get bigger injectors/fuel pump and tune appropriately (with a wideband). It's very simple. No need to reinvent the wheel.
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01-17-2024, 02:36 AM | #22 |
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Yes.
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01-17-2024, 08:38 AM | #24 |
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I'll try one more time even though I said I would pull out. It doesn't know in PE what the AFR is. It is just supplying the amount of fuel that was programmed in by the designers based upon what they expect it to need with a lot of table lookups, with an adjustment carried over by the LTFT from running in closed loop. This is why it has to have a wideband when running it outside of stock parameters. You have to adjust the model to now tell it how much fuel it needs at these new parameters.
I'm sure the original settings for WOT/PE where done with some combination of computer modeling and by using some version of an o2 analyzer, probably a lab grade 5 gas analyzer. All of this is really the difference between it running in open loop vs closed. Closed loop means it has something to adjust by and tweaks things based upon AFR. Open loop is just following the programming. Reads pressure, rpm, temps etc, etc, etc and says it needs this much fuel. |
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So as I stated before that you mentioned, I raised the boost with my first trick from stock to 9.25 psi and everyone is scolding my recipe, I did some research and math, and put a 10% lower pulley on two days ago, now I’m making 13.2 psi hitting the torque management boost disable, injectors are 112% and my cat temps are good. My MAF is just a few percent off at WOT, my calculated AFR for my stock ECM is within 1% of commanded lambda AND the PE table. I am getting a wide band soon, injectors, cam, springs, etc. So take your standard chicken soup recipe like the other 10 thousand have done, I personally don’t follow others with anything and revel with others telling me it can’t be done, you are wrong, or it’s impossible, then doing it. Can you personally design parts in AutoCad, have them made, cut weld and fabricate it all in stainless, build a rear differential, transmission, a twin turbo draw through carburetor system on a LS engine making 20 psi on stock pistons, get that ground up design and build to pass DOT regulations, get it titled, registered, and tagged without ANY help from others because there is no RECIPE for it and run it to 219 mph? Everyone said I couldn’t use hydraulic steering on a motorcycle, did it, everyone said I couldn’t use that transmission and differential setup, did it, everyone said the turbo system wouldn’t work, did it, everyone said you can use a single sided hub centric front wheel on swing arms for a motorcycle, did it. Do you know the exact PSI factory GM hypereutectic pistons will break ring lands no matter the AFR and .060” ring gaps? I do. Thanks for input.
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01-17-2024, 09:19 AM | #26 |
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Sure I can design my own parts and have them made by someone else. I could do that 30 years ago (when I was a Rocket Scientist, or at least an Engineering co-op with NASA). That has nothing to do with knowing how a GM ECM setup is done. You may know how you think it should be done, but that doesn't mean they did it that way.
Of course your commanded and calculated are following extremely close. It's calculating how long to turn on the injectors from cylinder volume and the commanded AFR. You are then calculating AFR from the same airflow and fuel flow parameters. The only reason it is different is a time lag. |
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