KitCarlson, still fighting... Options

[McMark]

I'm still struggling to get my KitCarlson EMS running smoothly. It's a challenge when you're tuning FI and Ignition.

I read some threads on ShopTalk Forums where Jake recommends 12 degrees initial advance and 28 degrees full advance, all in at 3000 rpms.

So I dialed the ignition controls in to these figures. Checked the setting with a timing light and what's showing on the EMS monitor seems to match what's showing with the adjustable timing light. This is a wasted spark system and I've been ambiguously warned that a standard timing light "won't work" with a wasted spark system. This doesn't make sense to me though.

The first issue I need to deal with is that the car won't rev above 4000 rpms. When I first started setting this up I had the same issue and adding in advance cured the issue. I trust Jakes recommendation and so I'm looking for other sources of this issue.



Currently my logic tells me that if the system is too rich above 4000 rpms it would respond to more advance. Spark earlier gives the rich mixture more time to burn. I'll be playing around with this idea tomorrow, but I'd like to hear what'cha got to say.

[McMark]

Actually, it was odd. I was driving to lunch and all the numbers in the VE table disappeared. Everything else was fine, but those all went to 0. So I'm starting over. The car never really ran well. So it's good to go back to the beginning and start over. This time with all my gained knowledge. Slowly but surely I'm whipping this thing.

It's really hard for me to accept things without explaination. WHY doesn't an adjustable light work with wasted spark? (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/confused24.gif)

I'm not using the O2 sensor right now. I'm going out to try Jakes new #'s right now. I'll let you know how that feels.