08-11-2009, 01:05 AM
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Fuel Saving Engine Map
Hi everyone. I'm fairly new to this forum but thought I'd share this.
I have a Subaru WRX with a 2.0L turbocharged motor. I've recently been learning about open source tuning, and bought an OBDii to USB cable and a small netbook to keep in my glove box.
As we all know turbo charged cars to start with tend not to be fuel efficient (unless you can stay out of boost) and I've done a few mods to my car and all of them have been for gains in power and performance, knowing full well that would come at the expense of MPGs (3" catless turboback exhaust, catless uppipe, some light port and polish, and a stage 2 tune (and custom headers and ported intake manifold on the way)). But I've realized while that performance is losts of fun to have on the weekends, its not being used during my daily commutes.
So the first custom tune I made for my car was a fuel save map for when I'm just driving to and from work or when I can expect to be stuck in traffic. Since I have a computer in the glove box it only takes a minute to change engine maps and flash a different one onto the ECU.
Here is what I did. I zeroed the entire wastegate duty cycle table, this make it so that the wastegate is always open and the maximum boost you produce will be the wastegate spring pressure, on my car thats about 9psi (as opposed to 17psi of boost with my stage 2 map).
I changed the Closed Loop/Open Loop Fueing Delay back to their stock values, this ensures I stay in CL fueling longer, and set the CL AFR target to 14.7 (rich) and 15.5 (lean).
I just put this map on today, and initial results look promising. Under daily driver conditions, the car seemed to drive almost exactly the same. There was a slight hesitation in the throttle, but I never found myself lacking any power. I drove around town doing a few errands, and then went to a friends house a few miles away. I was driving both highways and surface streets. Based on the fuel gauge (which we all know are not that accurate) I'd say it dropped almost 50% less than what it would normally. Now I'm willing to concede that these gains may be mostly from driving style as I was driving easier on the car until I see how the car drives with this map.
I had a little more than 1/4 tank when I flashed this map on, so it will be interesting to see the results when I drive off a full tank on this map I've been logging my millage for a few months now so I've got something to compare it to (between 17mpg and 21mpg before the new map).
So far the car drives fine with this fuel save map and since I haven't detected any knocking yet, in future I may advance the timing and lean out further.
I'll keep posting further results.
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