Engine Management: Advanced Tuning
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 9:03 pm
If you have any interest at all in tuning, or just have a curiosity about how the how the stock computer works, I'd highly recommend picking this book up. It's a pretty easy read. I picked it up Friday evening, and finished it on Saturday. It gave some of the theory behind tuning and why things are done/configured the way they are.
I had a couple AHA moments while reading it. For example, injector timing. I didn't alter this from the base map on the Link. The ECU was configured to finish the fuel injection at 360 BTDC. The intake valve timing is set at 6 degrees BTDC on the turbos. The book indicates that you want to finish the fuel injection before the intake valve opens to help it atomize. Plus if you inject directly into the cylinder you can wash the oil film off the cylinder bore.
Since the ECU was still injecting a little bit when the intake valve was opening, I had a little bit of fuel being injected directly into the cylinder. The AHA moment was when I read that this causes a pretty big loss in torque. This explains why my torque curve dropped off relatively quick compared to some of the other curves I've seen from turbo legacies.
Anyway, here's a link to Amazon. I highly recommend the book.
Engine Management: Advanced Tuning
I had a couple AHA moments while reading it. For example, injector timing. I didn't alter this from the base map on the Link. The ECU was configured to finish the fuel injection at 360 BTDC. The intake valve timing is set at 6 degrees BTDC on the turbos. The book indicates that you want to finish the fuel injection before the intake valve opens to help it atomize. Plus if you inject directly into the cylinder you can wash the oil film off the cylinder bore.
Since the ECU was still injecting a little bit when the intake valve was opening, I had a little bit of fuel being injected directly into the cylinder. The AHA moment was when I read that this causes a pretty big loss in torque. This explains why my torque curve dropped off relatively quick compared to some of the other curves I've seen from turbo legacies.
Anyway, here's a link to Amazon. I highly recommend the book.
Engine Management: Advanced Tuning