I dyno'd my DSM AFC and spent 4 hours tuning the hell out of it. I found a Mom and Pop dyno shop over in Crestview FL called Adam's Automotive. The owner brought me in on a Saturday when he was closed just so he could work solely on my MSP. He said he never saw one before and likes to help people that have something different. He said he usually only get's Hondas and I guess they get boring. LOL!
My AFC came pre-loaded with the Stock Super Map that was slightly enriched to prevent leaning from my mods. The reason DSM and I agreed to that was because my MAF was in the pressure side and my A/F guage was hitting lean spikes under boost.
I was still learning the software and I didn't save that map. I wish I did.
DSM, if you are reading this is there any way you can send me a copy of the map you used?
Anyways, Johnny, the Dyno operator ran the car on this map, and said that it was a well written map and was surprised at how well it worked but in his words said... I can do better LOL!
We were there for about 4 hours and made probably 8 or 9 passes. The first time we modified the map we changed a range of cells by 10%.... bad idea. The AFR jumped from a 10.3 to a 14. He stopped the dyno as soon as the WB read past 12. We learned that the MAF is extremely sensitive and that 1 ~ 2% is all we should change at any given time.
After about 4 hours, we made SIGNIFICANT TQ increases and about 10 more HP from the original super map to my new map.
Here are some tidbits of advice for those of you that just bought the AFC and want to tune it out:
1. The cell values that you have to manipulate are very sensitive, changing a value from 9.1 to 9.2 can change the AFR by .5 or more. So only make a few changes at a time and keep them small. The software can make the changes for you and if you use the "Change by" option, go no more than 2%.
2. MAKE SURE you go through the options menu and check the system settings and engine settings! That is crucial. It will change back to default if you open a new customer and sometimes even if you just restart the program. I didn't check it once and when I was working with a map, I tried to load it and it said database error. Then when I tried to reload the DB again, it just kept saying DB error... it destroyed my file irreparably. In my case I had to start over twice until I figured it out. Another symtom is that the map will show 10's everywhere, that is a bad sign. When I saw that I thought that DSM sold me the AFC as a placebo... LMAO!
3. Remember that when you read the data from the ECU, it WILL overwrite back to the file you have saved!!! This is why I don't have the original map to share with everyone. If you want to back up the map that is currently on the AFC, make a new customer, read map from the ECU, then close the customer and save that DB for a rainy day. Then open a new customer again, read from ECU and then start making changes.
Below are some attachments. For those of you who do not have the R4 software, I have pasted the map to an excel spreadsheet and is "my final map.xls".
For those of you who do have the R4 software, I included "kelly 2.zip". In order to open it you need winzip. The map is inside the archive. The reason I did that is because you can only upload certain extensions.
I am scanning the dyno charts now and will post them in my next thread.
My AFC came pre-loaded with the Stock Super Map that was slightly enriched to prevent leaning from my mods. The reason DSM and I agreed to that was because my MAF was in the pressure side and my A/F guage was hitting lean spikes under boost.
I was still learning the software and I didn't save that map. I wish I did.
DSM, if you are reading this is there any way you can send me a copy of the map you used?
Anyways, Johnny, the Dyno operator ran the car on this map, and said that it was a well written map and was surprised at how well it worked but in his words said... I can do better LOL!
We were there for about 4 hours and made probably 8 or 9 passes. The first time we modified the map we changed a range of cells by 10%.... bad idea. The AFR jumped from a 10.3 to a 14. He stopped the dyno as soon as the WB read past 12. We learned that the MAF is extremely sensitive and that 1 ~ 2% is all we should change at any given time.
After about 4 hours, we made SIGNIFICANT TQ increases and about 10 more HP from the original super map to my new map.
Here are some tidbits of advice for those of you that just bought the AFC and want to tune it out:
1. The cell values that you have to manipulate are very sensitive, changing a value from 9.1 to 9.2 can change the AFR by .5 or more. So only make a few changes at a time and keep them small. The software can make the changes for you and if you use the "Change by" option, go no more than 2%.
2. MAKE SURE you go through the options menu and check the system settings and engine settings! That is crucial. It will change back to default if you open a new customer and sometimes even if you just restart the program. I didn't check it once and when I was working with a map, I tried to load it and it said database error. Then when I tried to reload the DB again, it just kept saying DB error... it destroyed my file irreparably. In my case I had to start over twice until I figured it out. Another symtom is that the map will show 10's everywhere, that is a bad sign. When I saw that I thought that DSM sold me the AFC as a placebo... LMAO!
3. Remember that when you read the data from the ECU, it WILL overwrite back to the file you have saved!!! This is why I don't have the original map to share with everyone. If you want to back up the map that is currently on the AFC, make a new customer, read map from the ECU, then close the customer and save that DB for a rainy day. Then open a new customer again, read from ECU and then start making changes.
Below are some attachments. For those of you who do not have the R4 software, I have pasted the map to an excel spreadsheet and is "my final map.xls".
For those of you who do have the R4 software, I included "kelly 2.zip". In order to open it you need winzip. The map is inside the archive. The reason I did that is because you can only upload certain extensions.
I am scanning the dyno charts now and will post them in my next thread.
