Apexi Power Fc Base Map

[ricknismo]

Basically I put a power FC in my 34 GTR just to see if it works...and it does. When I put the standard computer back in the keys were now unsynced and I can't start the car, so I had to put the FC back in.

Nissan here is useless and don't know how to recode the keys and I am 1000k's away from somewhere to tune the FC. I will get it tuned..probably Marchish.

I have been told the main difference btween a factory ECU tune and a FC base map is mostly the timing as the fuel map is similar.

Attached is screens from my FC. My car is a basic pod/exhaust car so can anyone compare their maps if they have a similar state of mods and see if there is anything I can change?

[STATUS]

send me an email i will send a r34 safe (up to 15psi) map accross.

btw where are you?

[STATUS]

sorry [email protected]

[Don Dada]

Or you can initialize the unit, turn off the boost control kit, do the 30min idle learn proceedure, make sure the boost is no higher than 10-11psi and drive around not giving it too much of a hard time.....and keep an eye on knock of course

[blitzkreig]

send me an email i will send a r34 safe (up to 15psi) map accross.

btw where are you?

can you send me one also. will be installing a power fc during the holidays. waiting on a data logit.

greg

[paulr33]

as don data has said, the base map should be fine if you are normal and dont trash it and keep it on stock boost

using a "touched up" tune is just going to give you a false sense of "tuned" and youll trash it

putting the engine at risk and everything else. if it was me, stick with the base map, run low boost and get it done properly

[l0WRB]

status wouldnt suggest it if it wasnt safe paulr33....i think he knows what he is talking bout.. and would be more safe then any base map crap

[JKR-32]

status wouldnt suggest it if it wasnt safe paulr33....i think he knows what he is talking bout.. and would be more safe then any base map crap

This. That's a good offer from status. I believe that the Status tune will pretty much be the base map with far less aggressive timing, since timing is the thing that makes an untuned PFC unsafe.

[paulr33]

fair enough

your engine, not mine

[StealthX]

Or just buy an LC-1 wideband and get tuning yourself! Then get it touched up and ignition timing advanced professionally on the dyno. PFCs aren't that hard to understand from what I hear.

[ricknismo]

Where is the best place to get a cheap wideband sensor/meter?

[Tangles]

ebay generally. pick up a new AEM widebande set for $200del from the states, or less.

pm sent Trent. no big deal tho.

[StealthX]

I payed $220 delivered for my innovate LC-1.

Accurate as balls, easy to set-up.

[ricknismo]

Do you clip these into your exhaust pipe tip?

[StealthX]

no, they screw into a bung like the factory narrowband sensor. they can directly replace the stock one and still work with the factory ECU. however if you want to run a wideband o2 in the first place, there's a good chance you don't even use the factory ECU anymore...

[JonnoHR31]

stear clear of innovate. old ones are good but they're newer stuff is very unreliable and buggy.

[StealthX]

stear clear of innovate. old ones are good but they're newer stuff is very unreliable and buggy.

Yeah my LC-1 has a recurring bug, but i 'downgraded' to the old firmware and works like a treat.

having known this before i would've gone for a AEM UEGO, but at the end of the day, i've got a wideband that works fine, just took a little more fuckin around.

[ricknismo]

Sorry. I'm sort of confused. Wouldn't it be waaaaay easier to have a device to check air fuel ratio's without changing the factory setup which may affect the way it is tuned to start with. I always see tuners use simple ones you clip to the tail pipe and do an on the spot reading. Wouldn't a gte computer use the sensors for tuning. Why would I replace one just for a stand alone meter??

[JonnoHR31]

standard o2 sensor is only used during light load cruising at a constant throttle. with all aftermarket computers you can and should turn it off completely whilst tuning anyway (which is when you'd be using a wideband) so its very easy to use it in the standard spot. tailpipe clips are easier for tuners because its quicker and the dynos setup that way, on the road its easier in the standard spot.

[ricknismo]

I still think it would be 50x neater and better to maintain the standard setup and not install a tacky guage into a vspec 2 34