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If headers leaked during AutoVE...?
Then the wideband O2 sensor would detect the AFR leaner than it really is, and this would cause the paste/multiply to make the VE table richer than required.
What is a wideband and how is it used...?
Car comes from GM with narrowband O2 sensors: these indicate when the actual AFR is stoichiometric and when it is rich or lean, but cannot give an exact AFR when the actual AFR is not stoich... they function by responding to the PCM trimming the AFR on either side of stoich... the PCM looks at the NBO2 response and reverses the trim slightly and checks the response (closed loop) and repeats. When actual AFR is rich the NBO2 voltage pegs high, when lean it pegs low.
Wideband O2 sensor returns a signal which is directly proportional to AFR... but the PCM cannot use this, so we manully adjust the VE/MAF tables using the AutoVE/AutoMAF procedures... the scantool calculates the ratio of commanded AFR to wideband actual AFR and this is the correction factor (multiplier).