I messed with the ASE and taper for a good while last night, made marginal improvements but it still dies after a couple of seconds. Realized I still needed to test the IAC function. Tried that for a while and gave up because the car would surge and die below 30%. Also, the quality of the idle deteriorated somehow and was surging a lot. Not sure why, but I still have the original tune file I can load back in.
Woke up at some stupid hour because in my sleep, I realized I had to be in
open loop to test that. LOL. I'll keep at this, I refuse to let it get the best of me. Just not sure when Ill have more time to play with it.
Another thing I noticed is the WOT is tuned well if not slightly fat, but the car doesn't seem to be making much more power than before. I think (but can't prove it yet) that the stupid little bitty cone filter on the turbo and, more importantly, the
factory stock mufflers are creating so much backpressure that it's making the car asthmatic in the higher rpms. It should be making 400+ to the wheels on 8psi per the datalogs and it wont hardly spin the tires in 3rd gear.
My birthday is next month, so I'm going to ask for a couple new 2.5"
magnaflow mufflers and some 2.5" flowtubes ahead of the mufflers. The ones on there look like 2.25". I really think that's going to help a lot.