Installed the power fc and commander and tested it at the track. Here is my notes, comments, questions:

Installation
...went well, I clipped the pfc pins instead of the clipping the stock harness wires, seemed to work fine. The stock top ecu braket covers the commander plugin socket so I didn't use it (could hack saw it to work, but thats a mod for later), it held in place ok with the bottom bracket (velcro to hold it to power fc) and the foot cover panel pushing on it. I have a late 95 so i think my harness had the integrated wiring for the 'little black box', ...AC seemed to work fine. I did the 'idle learning' steps...5 min with different loads and it idles very well. I pull -468 vac at 730 rpm (thats about -18in vac, pretty good)

Other Comments
...the fans do come on earlier than the stock temp setting, so it stays at about 92-97c during idle and mello driving... but at the track it peaked at 127c...I know this seems high, I'm running Evans (and zero pressure) so I can't compare the temp to normal water/coolant mix. I put the stock boost control system back together (from my dual halliman pro setup) to test the power fcs boost control. It worked ok (not great, not bad), with some further duty cycle tuning I might get it mnore solid, either way I still get a 10-5-10 pattern...back to the debugging drawing board (for the 10th time...LOL).

I'm confused
...the one thing that I did not understand was that the turbo system was acting 500rpm behind from stock. In other words, the transition happened at 4000rpm, and the point where it goes back to single from dual went from 3500rpm to 3000rpm (this was very annoying on the track, bogged when I changed gears unless I dropped it below 3K to get it back to single mode)....I definetly don't like it and don't see how I can change it. I did a search and saw a post with a link to a thread about it, but the link broken. Anyone know what up with this.

What's funny
...is that a friend of mine with a 94 stock touring (except RB inlet suct and maybe DP) seems faster than me (straight line test) and I have intake, dp, catback, and pfc (both cars running about same boost level, stock 10ish)....all I can do is laugh...what else can I do (hehehhe)


P.S.
Any power FC tuners near minnesota? (hahha, yeah right LOL)

 

PFCs have different transition setpoints as compared to stock, I think they rethought the settings to keep the first turbo from running out of lung on mod'd cars prior to transition.

Datalogit can change your turbo transition rpm settings for both conditions, not sure the commander can do this.

Power output is a function of many things including motor health, ignition/spark, tuning, etc. Check your plugs and wires, turn that boost up to 12 or more and you should realize a safe power increase over your stockish competition; be sure to measure your afrs and knock levels just to be safe.

 

thanks for the info twokrx7, guess I'll have to get the datalogit and start tweaking.