So I realise not many people are probably looking at this thread as it relates to "economy" cars. haha but worked out why what was holding the car back from making any decent power... and it can be fixed by turning one factory setting off.
Unfortunatly, Efilive doesn't have it in the calz yet but I'm sure they will have it soon. hpt have it listed under the torque management area and call it "torque shaping". What this does is put what feels like a 3-5 second delay between when the motor is told to accelerate/increase hp to when it actually does. I can't report how well this translates to the automatics but for the manual cars it's makes a huge difference.
Similar for when the first e38 cars came out and have the delay between pedal movement and etc movement. Turning this one feature off instantly removes the delay & possibly any torque limitations.
How do I know, what better way than to show it.
http://www.torqueup.com.au/wp-conten...ze-Ethanol.jpg
While not exactly a back to back comparison, considering the fuel/boost changes. but I haven't touched the timing map from the 98 tune.
While making more power is 1 thing, Drivability is beyond good. It's how the factory should of made it as it was borderline dangerous, the best example I can give is say your coming to a roundabout and see a clear gap that will get you driving straight though, but you've slowed down to a rolling pace of 5-10kph in 2nd gear.
you push the pedal down, oh what's that. the car's not accelerating and you've just rolled out on to the road and now a car's coming. Shit's about to get real!!
my solution was to clutch dump the pos to get the rev's up because the stupid ecu is commanding -10 degrees timing. (clutching in, instantly switched it to a different map/setting)
now, I can roll along in 3rd gear and have instant acceleration.
That's the kind of difference that 1 setting makes!
