Haltech staging 550/1600
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staging 550/1600
i know i can not be the only one who has had a problem staging 550's and 1600's. can anyone please tell what they have done to *help* the situation.
in my personal car, i have no problem with this. the problem is with a friends car i was helping him with. he is still using the stock turbos on his FD. from talking to some other people, they have said that lowering the base fuel pressure will help this out. i have heard as low as 25lb??
in my personal car, i have no problem with this. the problem is with a friends car i was helping him with. he is still using the stock turbos on his FD. from talking to some other people, they have said that lowering the base fuel pressure will help this out. i have heard as low as 25lb??
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i understand that.
its the *stumble* once the map reads positive pressure and turns on the secondaries that is the problem, not the pressure or BAR were the staging happens.
its the *stumble* once the map reads positive pressure and turns on the secondaries that is the problem, not the pressure or BAR were the staging happens.
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maybe it is the bar.... but i was not asking how to move the staging bar. i am asking how to cure the stumble. maybe i was not clear with that.
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yeah, i know what way to go, and it is leaning out slightly from what the FJO says. i just dont know how low i can go. but even using the PgDn button, not just the arrows, it is still there. i did get it noticable *better* in some ranges, but in the 3500 and 4000 range... damn!!! i cant make a dent in it. have not tried to lower the fuel pressure due to like 3 feet of snow on the ground, but just trying to get some help for when this **** thaws out.
Ted, what do you think about lowering the base fuel pressure? should i? and if i do... should i go back and faten up the bars after the stage and then lean them out again after i try it with lower fuel pressure? thanks for the help.
Ted, what do you think about lowering the base fuel pressure? should i? and if i do... should i go back and faten up the bars after the stage and then lean them out again after i try it with lower fuel pressure? thanks for the help.
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To me 25# is way too low for base pressure.  If you've seen the poll in the Single Turbo(?) section, some ***** are running as high as 55#!  We usually try to keep it a min of 30# or around 30#-40#.  Going lower usually degrades idle (unless you're idling over 1,000RPM?) and allows a lot of fuel puddling in the intake.
Oh, and don't worry about the wide-band readings.  In the beginning, we also tried to tune out the lean-drop on the crossover, but it got us no where.  After ignoring the lean drop (as bad as it sounds), the crossover was seamless.  We figured the engine wasn't loaded enough for the lean drop to cause any harm.  With large staggers such as yours, we run the staging bar really low though - like at least 3 bars UNDER the "0" points.  Where is the staging bar now?
-Ted
Oh, and don't worry about the wide-band readings.  In the beginning, we also tried to tune out the lean-drop on the crossover, but it got us no where.  After ignoring the lean drop (as bad as it sounds), the crossover was seamless.  We figured the engine wasn't loaded enough for the lean drop to cause any harm.  With large staggers such as yours, we run the staging bar really low though - like at least 3 bars UNDER the "0" points.  Where is the staging bar now?
-Ted
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thats what i was thinking. 25LB seemed LOW to me too. right now i have it set for 36LB base. also, the staging bar is at 0-psi. idle is about 850prms.
so you are basicly telling me to stage at a lower bar?
so you are basicly telling me to stage at a lower bar?
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Get the staging bar away from "0" as much as possible.  This is one of the tricks for tuning for driveability.  Having it at "0" causes all kinds of weird problem due to the abrupt transition for turbo'd engines.  The farther away from "0" you can move the staging bar, the easier it is to tune smoothly.
Big staggers like your set-up, I like to drop the staging bar to the left.
-Ted
Big staggers like your set-up, I like to drop the staging bar to the left.
-Ted
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Originally posted by vosko
sorry if i wasn't clear that is what i meant. move the bar to the left. i have no stumble when my secondaries come on...
sorry if i wasn't clear that is what i meant. move the bar to the left. i have no stumble when my secondaries come on...
like i said... like you, in my single turbo FD i also have no problem with the stumble. its in a friends stock twin car that i installed the haltech in and am trying to set it up is where i am having this problem. thanks for trying to help though jon.
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ok.. had a chance to play some more. did what Ted told me. moved the bar into vacume, tried it after boost... either way it did not matter. same thing would happen.
the reason i tried to move it into the boost was becasue i was thinking about AIC's. these come online as the turbo has already reached a pre-determined boost presure, and for the most part, come in seamlessly. i figured that a 550 *should* be able to carry the motor for a few pounds while some air flow is built up, and the huge secondaries will not totaly "dump" into the mix drowning the motor... still nothing. i have the secondaries all the way down to 1.6XX... any lower and from what Ted has told me, they will become unstable.
again this is only hapening in the 3-4K ranges. anything higer and you cant even tell that the transition is there (almost seamless) like if you were to start boosting at 5K rpm... the car is OUT!! but anything in the 3500ish range... it bucks and sputters, and backfires...
can anyone help me? am i doing something wrong? what the hell is going on? anyone? anyone?
another thing i was thinking of doing was adding in some timming were i was staging the injectors... is this a good or bad idea?
the reason i tried to move it into the boost was becasue i was thinking about AIC's. these come online as the turbo has already reached a pre-determined boost presure, and for the most part, come in seamlessly. i figured that a 550 *should* be able to carry the motor for a few pounds while some air flow is built up, and the huge secondaries will not totaly "dump" into the mix drowning the motor... still nothing. i have the secondaries all the way down to 1.6XX... any lower and from what Ted has told me, they will become unstable.
again this is only hapening in the 3-4K ranges. anything higer and you cant even tell that the transition is there (almost seamless) like if you were to start boosting at 5K rpm... the car is OUT!! but anything in the 3500ish range... it bucks and sputters, and backfires...
can anyone help me? am i doing something wrong? what the hell is going on? anyone? anyone?
another thing i was thinking of doing was adding in some timming were i was staging the injectors... is this a good or bad idea?
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Originally posted by vosko
it sounds like you have a timing or ignition problem.....
it sounds like you have a timing or ignition problem.....
vague answers are not helping.
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Originally posted by rxrotary2_7
how do you come to that conclusion? would you care to elaborate?
vague answers are not helping.
how do you come to that conclusion? would you care to elaborate?
vague answers are not helping.
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Originally posted by Manolis_D
Perhaps a dumb question... are you sure the problem isn't turbo-related?
Perhaps a dumb question... are you sure the problem isn't turbo-related?
the stumble is DIRECTLY related to where i move the staging bar. if you look in the manual in appendix D.3 it states:
"when the ecu begins to stage it begins firing both sets of injectors at once and fires them with the same duration"
this is trhowing me off... what is the SAME duration? is it the last unstaged bar or the first staged bar?
it also says: " if the primary and secondary are of the same flow rate then the first staged bar should theoretically be slightly more than half that of the last unstaged bar."
this statement would lead me to believe that they use tha same duration OF the first STAGED bar??? no?? if this is the case, i can see how Ted was saying to do this in vacume. but even then, if it is coughing under load, then doing this in vacume is not going to be able to ignight/mix air with all this fuel either...???
vosko, you said "well i learned the hard way tuning my car... soon i will be retuning my entire map..... " what is it that you learned? did you learn how to take care of this stumble? if yes, what did you do to cure it? if no, what are you telling me? am i missing something in your reply? also, if you 'tunned' it once, why does it need to be tuned again?? do you mean you were able to get it up and running, and now you are going to have to tune it??? or are you saying you are going to have to re-tune for a different size primary?
sorry if it sounds rude, but i am just wondering. if you actualy do know something that was not mentioned, why would you not help me out?
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Originally posted by vosko
you said its hesitating right ? hesitation can be caused by a few things ( you already know) . it can be too lean, too rich, too much timing, ignition misfiring...... i haven't seen the car just trying to give friendly ideas. if someone can diagnose a car problem over the internet 100%, they get a from me
you said its hesitating right ? hesitation can be caused by a few things ( you already know) . it can be too lean, too rich, too much timing, ignition misfiring...... i haven't seen the car just trying to give friendly ideas. if someone can diagnose a car problem over the internet 100%, they get a from me
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talking to Silver7, he has told me that he has NEVER been able to get rid of this stumble. even by emailing his maps to hitman and others to look at. i think there HAS to be something to make it better though.
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Do you have a fuel pressure gauge? If you do, then are there any pressure spikes/dips when you transition? Its possible that you're FPR is having a hard time with the transition. Just a guess....