link ecu users

[revlimiter]

Another LINK owner here. I adjust mine for emissions and that's about it. Passed in Dec. by pulling 5 points of master fuel and 2 degrees of timing. It's worked for me for 7 years.

Heck yeah! I did the same thing last e-test. I pulled something like 5 points of master fuel and turned off L3/L4 autotuning. Passed with no problems.

[Titus]

Heck yeah! I did the same thing last e-test. I pulled something like 5 points of master fuel and turned off L3/L4 autotuning. Passed with no problems.

Same here.

[Flyineunos]

All the Cali guys should but a link!

My engine builder wants me to change to AEM EMS.....I told him hell no!(for now)

[—kung fu jesus—]

The worst thing about the link, to me, was the resolution and lack of support. The autotune on my MS is far easier to work with and I just need to pull out a netbook I keep in the car. I thought I read there is/will be an app for android, so that should be pretty cool too.

[Titus]

I have been without my car for 11 months. Before it went down, I was planning to do some tuning on it. I have a netbook with DLL up and running on it, but I fear it will take me a while to get back into the swing of things with the LINK once the car is back home.

[—kung fu jesus—]

Its easier to tune if you can look at the maps in cells on a spreadsheet.

[revlimiter]

Yeah, a lot easier. A buddy (Sharpie's dad) has a laptop with the Link tuning software on it. Looking at the table is so much easier to understand.

As for "lack of support" I have to disagree. I had a crazy problem with my sensors fluctuating like mad this past summer. Ray Ayala (the guy responsible for the Miata Link firmware) spent many hours emailing back and forth with me till I got it fixed. Turned out to be my wideband dirtying up the grounds for every sensor on the intake side of the engine. But it took a lot of help from him to figure that out.

FM has helped me out quite a few times in the past too. Jeremy still supports the Link.

[revlimiter]

I've reduced my Z6 about 20 points (that's the CSTARTF number, for the extra fuel that keeps your car running the first 20something seconds) and cut Z16 a bit as well (COLD fuel, the stuff that stays with you till you're warmed up to 80*C). Much nicer cold emissions. No more black soot being sprayed all over my driveway. Or at least a lot less.

BTW, Z715 is the fuel prime squirt. I used to know this at some point and forgot. I've been double priming on the coldest mornings because mine was set down at 120. I've got it up to 200 now (255 is the max) and get the car to fire on the first chug of the starter.

[urban]

thanks
i dropped z16 a few points and it really smooths out after the 20sec start.
but my z6 didnt seem to have an effect . the initial value in the base map is at 30 .
what was the initial value before you changed it , and then after. ??
cause of that i didnt even touch the z715.

unfortunately i dont have a narrowband o2 hooked up. wide only.

[revlimiter]

My z6 was at 240 for whatever reason. I lowered it back to the 180 default and then a bit more to 160. Much nicer cold running.

So, it looks like the obiwan 550cc turbo defaults are pretty different than the 1600 440cc defaults.

[urban]

well , i doubt ive ever touched the z6, so im pretty sure its on the default. but the aem shows a flashing 10.0 at start. so it is too rich. i ran z6 up and down trying to see the gauge lean out before the 20 sec timeout but didnt get anything. if its rich , i should take the value down .
what do you think .

cant i reduce the amount of start time the z6 effects?

[revlimiter]

FM Link defaults

You can reduce the Z6 start time. It's... damn, I closed the tab with the Link defaults I just pasted... it's in the 700s somewhere. It's also on the keypad for CSTARTF. There's a number (30) and the time (22). You use the right side up/down keys to change the time.

I just realized how silly this must sound to users of modern, mature ECUs. I'll have a Megasquirt someday, but I'm gonna enjoy my Link while it continues to work.

[urban]

thanks.
http://www.flyinmiata.com/support/index.php <<<<<<<<<<<< FM's Link support page.
and the downloadable link manual
http://www.flyinmiata.com/support/in...ECU_tuning.pdf

is this it.
z710 - choke decay?
http://www.flyinmiata.com/support/defaults.php?choice=3

[—kung fu jesus—]

As for "lack of support" I have to disagree. I had a crazy problem with my sensors fluctuating like mad this past summer. Ray Ayala (the guy responsible for the Miata Link firmware) spent many hours emailing back and forth with me till I got it fixed. Turned out to be my wideband dirtying up the grounds for every sensor on the intake side of the engine. But it took a lot of help from him to figure that out.

FM has helped me out quite a few times in the past too. Jeremy still supports the Link.

All three times I called FM for support, Jeremy told me they no longer supported the Link and I had to go to Ken Hill, who was excellent.

As for the spreadsheets, if you don't have the laptop, take a little time and write out the cells in a grid on paper. I used to have an Xcell template for this. Seeing the cells helps you to 'smooth' out the map.

I think I still might have a PDA and charger somewhere with PLink on it. If anyone is interested, I can see if I still have it.

[revlimiter]

I actually own the SerialLink. I just never bought the DLL software. I don't own a Windows laptop...