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Timing Question
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Melting Slicks
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Timing Question
I have a 90-92 SD TPI installed in my 82. Custom chip.
I unplug the est connector and set the base timing at 6 degrees BTDC. When I plug the connector back in the timing jumps to 28 degrees BTDC at idle.
I was wanting to make sure this is normal .....because my car runs like crap right now and everything is new....I wanted to check this first before I start troubleshooting other things.
I unplug the est connector and set the base timing at 6 degrees BTDC. When I plug the connector back in the timing jumps to 28 degrees BTDC at idle.
I was wanting to make sure this is normal .....because my car runs like crap right now and everything is new....I wanted to check this first before I start troubleshooting other things.
Last edited by 1982CorvetteDude; Dec 30, 2008 at 03:59 PM.
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It sounds like too much to me. The jumping up is proper, as explained, but 28° is more than I've ever seen. Of course, what ever it jumps to is what is programmed into your custom chip. That chip must be for an engine with a lot of duration. Are the ECM, chip, and engine a matched set?
Does "90-92 SD TPI" mean 1991 - 1992 speed density Tuned Port Injection? If so, the 1992 used the LT1 with a totally different ignition system.
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Originally Posted by 1982CorvetteDude
I have a 90-92 SD TPI installed in my 82. Custom chip.
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Total Timing = BaseTiming + Main Spark Table + PE Timing - Knock Retard"
Total timing at WOT maybe. Except maybe in theory and actual programming how do knock retard and especially PE figure into the ignition timing at idle?
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Originally Posted by Ray Quayle
It's the LV8 Load Varible.
Obviously I have to get more into programming and tuning. I have just barely started reading a book on that just now.
I still say, "It sounds like too much to me. The jumping up is proper, as explained, but 28° is more than I've ever seen.". And let me clarify, at a normal idle speed.
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Well I will throw my 2 Cents in. I have a 90 and my stock timeing unpluged was set to around 6 BTDC and when I pluged it back in the timing jumped up a ton, but I would say that yours jumped way to much. I am thinking mine jumped to somewhere near 20 but I could be wrong. I would go out and do it again, except the motor is out of the car this winter.
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It sounds like too much to me. The jumping up is proper, as explained, but 28° is more than I've ever seen. Of course, what ever it jumps to is what is programmed into your custom chip. That chip must be for an engine with a lot of duration. Are the ECM, chip, and engine a matched set?
Does "90-92 SD TPI" mean 1991 - 1992 speed density Tuned Port Injection? If so, the 1992 used the LT1 with a totally different ignition system.
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Does "90-92 SD TPI" mean 1991 - 1992 speed density Tuned Port Injection? If so, the 1992 used the LT1 with a totally different ignition system.
RACE ON!!!
i know if you get a programmed chip you wound not want more then 6 degrees base timing or it will run terrible.. and like mentioned above you need to get the idle to like 850 to make sure you are setting the timing correctly.
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LV8 = inverse RPM * airflow * scalar
From 3rd Gen Prom
"LV8 = (((DRP * gms/sec) / 256) * Scalar) / 64
The DRP can be found be reversing the RPM calculation:
DRP = 983040 / RPM -gives- 983040 / 1550 = 634
Then gms/sec at 14.01 and the scalar of 80 (decimal):
(((634 * 14.01) / 256) * 80) / 64 = 43 (the LV8, or Load Variable, 8 bits)."
As you correctly state there would be no PE or knock retard at idle.
1000 rpm is hi-lighted because that is where the cursor was when I took the screen shot.
Bottom line is he needs to know what SA has been programmed on his tune and what base timing it was set for.
NB;Many people with stock chips have reported gains bumping the base timing to 8-10 degrees.
Last edited by rodj; Dec 31, 2008 at 11:01 PM.
