Got some questions now that I think I have some basic understanding. Take a look at this pic and notice a few things about my tune when going WOT in 4'th gear.
1. I'm a bit rich. about .5 usually. I've recently read that running rich is a loss of power. So if this were a pro dyno guy tuning my car, what would he be thinking he could gleam out of my car power wise if the car actually hit the 12.85 pe mode setting?
2. Now I thought I was doing good with this tune when I saw the LT trims starting to kick in here. In my newby mind I figured to get rid of the extra trimming I would have to add gas, but I'm already rich. Being rich is better than being lean at 6200 rpm, right? Now I've been reading about LT trims and turns out they have some magical historical learning ability and I'm wondering if they are misleading me a bit due to previous readings where high LT trims were always recorded. When do you reset the LT Trim history, and how?
3. Now if I had it dialed in where AFR was what PE commanded 12.85 and there is zero knock, would the professional dyno tuner look at that and be obligated to try another degree of timing until that point where you start incuring knock?
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On a side note. How much work does a pro dyno tuner really have to do? His pulls are WOT, instant PE and MAF mode. Do they even bother with the main VE table? The goal us usally to get max hp/tq out of a WOT pull. I'm thinking they only mess with High Octane spark, B5001 MAF, and maybe the simple PE table if it's jacked up.
I've taken two of my Vettes to the pro tuners. First was 02 low mileage convertable. Ran perfect, just wanted to get the most I could out of it at the drag strip after headers and vararam. I'm figuring they did exactly what I described above. ( But I really don't know, I was totally ignorant to what he was doing )
The second is my current Z06 that was totally screwed up and you probably have read many of my posts along my learning with it. They did a couple runs and saw how far off it was and stopped the process, called me and said it needed too much work to be dyno ready. I'm sure they could have fixed it on the dyno, but the deviation from what I think is the normal process ( see above ) would have incurred way to much time and expense for me the customer to afford. However, now the tune is pretty solid and I'm sure the pro guy would be able to start gleaming the most out of it. So I'm trying to figure out what process the pro guy uses. (See my question 3 above) About the only thing I remember from watching my car be dyno tuned, was the pro turning to me and saying "it wont take any more timing".