[carcrafter22]

I am still pretty new to EFILive and although I have made a few tunes I am still kinda in the dark about useing scan tool to help with tuning. I know how to select what PID's I want and how to record data but I am not sure how to correlate it and tuning. How do I know where to add fuel or timing or boost? Whats the easiest way to set things up? Do you look at the gauge panel the graph or just the data page? How do you run your logs ie: just driveing around or full throttle blast from stop to wherever? I also dont understand the maps at all can someone explain them to me?
I know I am missing a big part of this and I know this will help out emensly when i tune so any help is appreciated. THANKS

Randy

 

[sierradiesel]

Check tunes in the repository and see how they differ from the factory tune. Do a lot of reading on these pages. There are a lot of helpful hints. I have been slowly changing one thing at a time and logging to see what it does. You get to know, after a while, what happens when you do what. Read and good luck. I'm sure that if you have any specific questions when you start it will be much easier to help you.
I don't think that I would even attempt to tune the transmission this way. It could be too exciting to screw something up like commanding a shift into reverse while going 60mph.

 

[Cobra#3747]

Depends on what you are trying to do...me its always make power, so I look at the mm3 and rpm, desired fuel pressure, injection timing and throttle position, I make mental notes as to what rpm did what and use the mental note to find what areas I need to make changes in. At that point I change it one way or another to see if it changes it to what I want it to do.

 

[carcrafter22]

sierradiesel thanks but thats what I have been doing and it has helped alot but I am interested in learning more about the scan tool I have already read the scantool manual twice and it helps but would like some personall ideas like cobra 3747

cobra 3747 that is exactly what I started to do this afternoon I stared at the chart for about and hour. i went back and forth between it and the tune I had logged and started to see some correlations.

is there a way to make the scantool highlight specific spots on a table as you are going through the log like lets say you are looking at the middle of the log and then you click over to another window that has that logged tune on it will it highlight whatever you are looking at in the scan tool. am I making any sense? is there a way to do this? I think there is a way to do it with the maps I saw something about it in the scantool manual but I couldnt get it to work any help thanks

 

[Duramaxed06]

sorry a little off topic but I logged a little bit last night and found a PID "rear wheel HP". It said my max on one of the WOT runs was 453 HP?
I seriously doubt I'm making that much at the rear wheels, anyone confirmed its accuracy?

 

[carcrafter22]

its not very accurate trust me I wouldnt use it. I played with it for a little while and took it off its nowhere near accurate

 

[Duramaxed06]

its not very accurate trust me I wouldnt use it. I played with it for a little while and took it off its nowhere near accurate

I knew it was off, just wanted another opinion.

 

[kbk]

is there a way to make the scantool highlight specific spots on a table as you are going through the log like lets say you are looking at the middle of the log and then you click over to another window that has that logged tune on it will it highlight whatever you are looking at in the scan tool. am I making any sense? is there a way to do this? I think there is a way to do it with the maps I saw something about it in the scantool manual but I couldnt get it to work any help thanks

Check out this thread. I think this is what you are looking for.
http://www.dieselplace.com/forum/showthread.php?t=113298

Happy Tuning.

 

[carcrafter22]

if you go here http://videos.streetfire.net/video/f3f58fb4-1e26-4467-8342-989b017c087a.htm and watch the video about 2 min and 45 sec into it they explain and show what I am wanting to do I just dont know how to make it happen

 

[kbk]

Try opening up your tune first and go to a table you want to "watch". Then open up a cooresponding log file with the scan tool. Start to play the log file. Switch back to the opened tune table and you should see individual cells highlighted that match up to the log file. The above mentioned thread has some good info on the cal_link.txt file that plays into this functionality.

 

[carcrafter22]

I have been trying what you said but cant get it to highlight I will look at the thread you gave the link for

 

[carcrafter22]

when I open both the scan tool and tuning tool at the same time and try to view a log a message appears saying there is a vin mismatch between the log and tune. do you think this could be why its not showing highlighted data. I know there is not a vin mismatch do i need to enter my vin somewhere

 

[kbk]

I just opened one of the sample logs and one one of my tunes, received the VIN mismatch error, but was still able to watch the RPM bounce around one of the tables. So... I don't think that is the issue. Curious though why it is showing up in your case.

This bites. I am running out of ideas.

 

[carcrafter22]

me too. its just my luck

 

[05LLY2500HD]

Not to upset you, but Thank You, I just realized: I can PLAY the log file and look at the tune and see this instead of clicking on a certain area of the log file and relating it to the tune frame by frame.

Do you have the latest update?
I don't think vin# matters I compared a camaro log to a diesel tune and it worked even though it said there was a vin mismatch.

 

[carcrafter22]

why you little... hey your in texarkana hows it goin i live just south of ft.worth,tx

yeah i have the newest version of efi i wrote an email to efi support asking whats wrong im sure they can answer the question i will post back here when i find out i think this will help alot of people

 

[Flashscan]

First up, the VIN warning is simply to let you know the log file is not from the truck/car the tun file is from. So, lets say you for some reason had a log file from an LS1 in the scantool and you were looking at a map of an LLY and wondering why it's traced into a 5500 RPM cell, that would be the reason.

To ensure the scan/map highlighting works, all you need to have selected is the correct PID's. The default PID list the scantool is configured with should allow most maps to be traced.
Also check the option is not actually turned off in the Tuning program.
Go to Edit > Properties | Scanner. The look for the option box "Highlight scantool selection".

Also, looking at the picture below, you can see each map has a PID name next to the units of the axis. So, to have the fuel pressure values traced from the scantool, you need to log the PID - GM.FRPDES , anytime you see {link:xx.xxxxxxx} on a table that is the PID that is needed in the scantool to get the data trace into the tuning tool.

Cheers,
Ross

 

[carcrafter22]

my tuning tables do not have the {link:xx.xxxx} anywhere at anytime what am I doing wrong? I have both highlight scan tool selection in tuning maps and runway highlighting selected and at first the far right and bottom cells were highlighted but after closeing the scan tool and reopening nothing is highlighted in the tuning tool. Now what did I do? and yes you do have to treat me like I am a computer idiot. because I am.

 

[carcrafter22]

well i have been trying to get this to work all day and I cant so i emailed the efilive team my log and tune and theycouldnt get it to work either so they are now looking into it. I will let you all know how they fix it.

 

[dynarex]

hey-
did ya get a chance to try that tune i sent ya?