Gutted, mapping :(

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Well_Fans said:

whereabouts you based mailer, cant help with tuning but I can pull your tune out for you if you're struggling. Needing to arrange a trip to catch up with Simon (monaro57) in the next week or so to reprogram his dash. We could maybe kill 2 birds with one stone if we were all free at same time.

Bob, that would be great, I'm in Auchterarder, just south of Perth. could meet up with you anywhere though. I'm struggling to even retrieve the map from the car, been trying to find the correct information on line today. I tried F3: tune then F3: read but was getting $0537 code coming up, controller locked with custom key? no Idea I I was going down the correct route in the first place or what that code is? I could catch up with you when ever you want. thanks.

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Is that what it means? He's locked the map? Can you confirm that I was going about getting the map from the car the right way please?

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So is there nothing I can do with it till they come back from there holls?

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Yes, it was tuned using efi live. Ringram has been in touch and has been dead helpfull with giving me pointers on what to try, the wife is away out in the car most of today so will try ringrams suggestions tonight when she's back.

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Ok, a bit embarrassed! first attempt to read the ecu the auto detect button came up with E40 ecu and thats what I tried to read (this is where the locked code came from). Ringram emailed me with some pointers so tried again tonight, first attempt I got a different option but same locked message, third attempt I got E38 ecu and that worked!! so third time lucky I think and the tuner had not locked the ecu, so now managed to get my tune onto the computer! baby steps...........baby steps! i'll get there!

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Anyway this is my last post on this thread, and like I say is simply my opinion. No offence or upset to anyone is intended at all.

Cheers,

Leatherman
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Leatherman, thanks for all the posts (and emails) it been a great help! cheers! going to ping you an email in a min.

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stevieturbo said:

mailer555 said:

so third time lucky I think and the tuner had not locked the ecu, so now managed to get my tune onto the computer! baby steps...........baby steps! i'll get there!

That's a thread spoiler ! LOL

Haha, I know! Still, it kicked off a good debate!

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MyM8V8 said:

TheLeatherman said:

To chirp in here,

Gareth - just to restate this is only my stance on this topic. Everything else we pretty much agree upon!!! I do not, in any way, want you or any other forum member to be under the illusion that I am attacking you in any way mate :-)

Edited by TheLeatherman on Sunday 28th December 13:06

No worries Mate and no offence taken at all. We're all good and always will be.

I stick by my gut feeling that being locked out of your own car with someone holding the keys is not a good thing.

The debating issue here, for me, when you dig down is really, who owns the kit, not how much is invested anywhere?

Mailer555. When you get the tune, flick it over to someone knowledgeable to have a squint over. I can't help because I know nothing about VVE tuning on an E38. Although efilive has a brilliant facility for comparing the new tune to the stock one. It lists all the changes made to the tables and you can instantly see what is going on (or not as the case may be).

I still suspect you have a mechanical issue as there are still many unanswered questions on this thread regarding the build. All I can say is that I had a very similar set up and it went like Merry Joe.

I thought I had answered everything along the way? If there is still something that needs answered I'll try my best to answer your questions. I've had someone take a quick look at the tune tonight, his response was interesting, it looks like the fine is identical to the hsv w427 tune! I still need to confirm this, but it could explain a lot! If there is any unanswered questions I'll try my best to answers them cos this whole thread has helped me out a lot in getting to the bottom of this!!

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MyM8V8 said:

So your tuner has copied in a tune for a 7.0L LS7 engine with different dynamics to your 6.0L motor? Great.

(The questions I posed earlier were about your cam and pushrod/rocker install and the methodology. If it's not right it could explain the problems up top?)

That's what it looks like at the moment.
Ok, full details of the cam and install.
Cam is lunati voodoo 227/233 spec has been posted so I'll not go in to that
Valve springs are comp cam's duel springs
Push rods are comp cam's, standard length just slightly thicker
Rockers have not been changed.
This was a package for an LS2 bought from wild vetts.
Then bought a 3 bolt top sprocket from monkfish and spoke to Rodger about the install. On his advice it was installed at true TDC.
All oil seals, collets and retaining plates were also included in the kit.
On top of that I have fitted:
Wortec headers and high flow cats
Custom made X pipe in s/s
Modified s/s walkinshaw backboxes
Vararam OTRCAI
Let me know if there is any more details I need to add to this, I could get part numbers from the com cam's boxes in the garage if that helps?