Ah, this explains the MAF air value differences compared to stock and the injector scaling listed in your injector attachement:
"GM Gen IV Calibration Scaling
As many people have seen, GM’s E40, E38, and E67 PCMs in certain vehicles are limited to a maximum flow rate of 63.5 lb/hr for injectors. This poses a problem for anybody wanting to use injectors that go past this limit. Some of the newer platforms (2009 LS3 Corvette, 2010 Z06, 2010 Camaro for example) have twice the limit at 127 lb/hr which simplifies things greatly. However, these vehicles are still plagued by the 1.36 g/cyl limit of the spark tables. Chances are anybody needing injectors bigger than 63.5 lb/hr will pass 1.36 g/cyl anyway, so the double IFR limit isn’t as useful anymore. This necessitates the need for scaling the calibration. Scaling means just that… Scaling everything down to compensate for the hard coded limits. Assuming a return style fuel system, a user might have injectors that flow 80 lb/hr at 58psi (since this is return, the IFR table would be populated with 80 lb/hr in every cell). We can’t enter 80 lb/hr as the flow rate… but 75% of 80 lb/hr would be 60 lb/hr, which falls under the hard coded limit. For this person, scaling the tune by 75% would work. However, scaling by 50% is the easiest, and the answer to “Why?” will become clear later. So if we scale by 50%, we would enter 40 lb/hr for the flow rate across the entire table, effectively telling the PCM that the injectors are half as big as they actually are. Obviously, this is going to throw everything else off.
The first and most obvious things to correct are the airflow measurements (MAF and VE). These are easy… Highlight the entire MAF table and multiply by 50%, and do the same for the VE (this article will not go into detail about how to manipulate the equation based VE of the newer operating systems… that is up to the reader, who needs to know that the calculated values need to be halved). This includes Cranking VE! Some people think that simply cutting the defined engine displacement in half will eliminate the need to scale the VE, but this is not true, as the PCMs affected by this injector limit don’t use the engine displacement in the calculations… it’s built directly into the VE numbers (sometimes referred to as GMVE). Once these are scaled, everything is done, right? Unfortunately, it doesn’t stop there. After cutting the airflow measurements in half, we’ve now reduced cylinder airmass reporting in half. What used to be 0.64 g/cyl is now 0.32 g/cyl in the tables. This starts to affect all of the spark tables, so they need to be adjusted accordingly. This is where scaling by 50% becomes easier than any other multiplier, because we can just copy/paste almost everything for the spark tables. As shown below, the spark values from 0.40 g/cyl just get copied into the 0.20 g/cyl row. If we were scaling by 75%, there are some instances that allow copy paste. For example, the 0.32 g/cyl row can be copied into the 0.24 g/cyl row, but interpolation is required to do most of the rows. The extent of what tables need to be scaled is left up to the reader, as this isn’t meant to be an outline to go step by step on what to do, but rather to show the methodology behind scaling a tune.
Any table with cylinder airmass as an axis has to be scaled, and there are tables buried in various sections of the tune. Spend some time and find them all so that you aren’t hunting for a problem later. The injector flow rate, airflow measurements, and spark tables are the brunt of what needs to be scaled. However, there are still other areas that need to be scaled down. Any value that is in lb/hr needs to be scaled, along with anything that could be a waterfall effect (like g/cyl which is a calculated result of the flow rate scaling). Don’t forget that tables concerning knock sensors and DFCO fall into this category. Another obscure point is the torque calculation. Any value represented as torque should be halved (Torque Management in the Engine calibration can likely be ignored here since most people max these tables out anyway), like the AC Torque tables. Torque calculations are more important for the automatic crowd, which opens a whole new world of scaling requirements for the transmission. With HP Tuners, you can click on the torque axis of a table and open the labels, allowing you to just divide those labels by 2 and properly adjust the table by 50%.
You can also adjust the data set itself if you want to leave the axis labels alone. Changing the axis labels themselves is ultimately easier, because it eliminates the need to curve fit the data set to a new set of labels (Excel can easily do this curve fitting if the user is savvy enough to use INDEX and LINEST functions coupled with arrays… or take the long, laborious route of graphing the data, applying a trend line, and copying the coefficients from the trend line equation). Curve fitting can get unreliable when the data set isn’t very large, though. Sometimes you can manually refit the values to follow the trend, especially if you’re going to tweak them in the tune later anyway.Going back to airflow measurements that require scaling, a few tables of interest to point out are the Cylinder Charge Temperature Bias vs. Airflow and Cylinder Charge Temperature Filter Coefficient vs. Airflow tables.
For a 2006 Corvette Z06, these tables are linear, so they are easy to fit to a scaled set of axis labels. As mentioned, these tables are very easy to deal with. Other tables, like the Closed Loop Mode vs. Airflow and the LTFT Purge Reduction Factor tables (both of which have axis labels in lb/hr of airflow) aren’t linear, and become harder to scale. Again, scaling by 50% makes these easier. However, regardless of the factor for scaling, it may be a good idea to curve fit these using 6 th order polynomial fitting. This refers back to the INDEX and LINEST functions with arrays, or just graphing the data and curve fitting it. When setting up your array, simply copy the table with the labels, then divide the labels in half. Generate the data with these adjusted axis labels, and then fill it all in. Putting the use of curve fitting into words is difficult to do, so I apologize if it’s hard to understand"
I guess, my question is has this been filtered throughout the tune to account for the larger injectors. Without a wideband in place, I would turn on your LTFT and STFT corrections and plot those as errors against your MAF and VE as a patch to see what is going on with the engine.
To me it looks like it times out to run a check or adjustment and falls on its face when it does it.
Joe
