Posted 23 March 2008 - 10:49 AM
I was planning to take pics of the installation as I was going but didn't get round to it due to the various challenges faced! I went out in the snow/ice/wet/grit last night and it performed superbly, just as I remember from last time I used it on my old Civic Type R.
I've actually changed quite a few of the settings as I spent many hours messing around with different mappings on the Civic and ended up with some that I really liked. Probably the biggest change I have made from the default settings are to the % slip settings assigned to each cut sequence. What I found odd about the default settings is that the % slip set for each cut sequence is added to the % slip selected on the adjuster. So, for example, the default slip for Cut Sequence 1 is 5%, so if you set your adjuster to 0% and the wheels start to spin, the first sequence isn't applied until 5% slip is reached (eg: 0% on the controller plus 5% on the first sequence).
My feeling is that if I chose 0% slip on the controller in really poor conditions (like the snow and ice we have at the moment), I don't want the wheels to be able to spin at all. Considering those of us with the digital adjust can chose from 0% to 25% slip in 1% increments, it seems strange to only allow a lowest setting of effectively 5% slip.
So...what I've found is that by setting Cut 1 at 1%, Cut 2 at 5% and Cut 3 at 10% I can go from absolutely no wheel spin allowed at all with the controller set to 0% slip, to the original version of 0% by setting the controller to 4% (say for just mildly damp conditions) and then anything beyond at settings above this.
With the Civic, I also played around a lot with the cut sequences themselves which resulted in smoother operation of the TC, but can't remember off the top of my head what I did. Somewhere I have the old config files that I used saved, so I'll try and find them and see if they work as well on the VX.
I also found that 35 pulses rather than 40 seems to make the TC speed match the speedo on my car and I also set the 'hard cut' setting to have the first cross set to 'fire' to try to prevent the 'safe mode' problem as I believe it only happens when there are 50 mis-fires in a row?
The only problem that I'm left with is that my wheel sensors don't seem to want to all pick up until around 24kmph, which means the system has to be disabled until that point. I've got the shielding earthed now, which has stopped any spikes in values, but that's made no difference to the pick up speed. What speed do all you guys get full pick up at?
Can't believe how long that's taken to do. Turned out that the TC ecu had a bent pin on it. Not sure whether it was like that when I got it or whether I damaged it during installation, but it's now straightened out and all wheels are picking up. Just need some crap weather now to try it out.
On a side note, I've got to say that Racelogic, in particular Mike Broadbent, are very helpful indeed and quick to respond to emails.
