Will this Device (or any other) Replace a Dyno Tune?
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:15 pm
I'm used to working on Harley motors. In that industry, we buy a TTS Mastertune, which is an interface between the ECM and a laptop, and simply gets plugged in to the ECM interface - no splicing wires like a wideband 02 logger.
With a TTS Mastertune, we log every cell on a grid, with throttle position (or kPa) as the x-axis and rpm as the y-axis. You can do this either on a dyno (safer) or simply by driving on the street with a laptop in the saddlebag, trying to cover every cell long enough to get a reading. We can then adjust each individual cell fairly precisely to within 1% of optimum before we apply a fuel/air map.
What I seem to be seeing here in the auto industry is a lot of canned tunes that are just applied on faith - which I'm just not familiar with. If I change my exhaust, cam, and intake on my 2012 Corvette LS3, how do I gather the data for the In-Tune to know how to modify the tune to fit the motor?
I see in the Predator forum a sticky that describes more of a tuning experience, but even that is only high kPa cruising in a narrow rpm, and then a WOT run - how does the tool fill in all the unknown cells in between? Or am I looking at the wrong tool? My goal is to be able to tune my own vehicle instead of taking it to a tuner with a Dyno.
Thanks for your help, Jon
With a TTS Mastertune, we log every cell on a grid, with throttle position (or kPa) as the x-axis and rpm as the y-axis. You can do this either on a dyno (safer) or simply by driving on the street with a laptop in the saddlebag, trying to cover every cell long enough to get a reading. We can then adjust each individual cell fairly precisely to within 1% of optimum before we apply a fuel/air map.
What I seem to be seeing here in the auto industry is a lot of canned tunes that are just applied on faith - which I'm just not familiar with. If I change my exhaust, cam, and intake on my 2012 Corvette LS3, how do I gather the data for the In-Tune to know how to modify the tune to fit the motor?
I see in the Predator forum a sticky that describes more of a tuning experience, but even that is only high kPa cruising in a narrow rpm, and then a WOT run - how does the tool fill in all the unknown cells in between? Or am I looking at the wrong tool? My goal is to be able to tune my own vehicle instead of taking it to a tuner with a Dyno.
Thanks for your help, Jon