VAGCOM Logs please have a look

dazjstuart

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May 18, 2012
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Now that my new turbo has done a few hundred miles without issue I thought the time was right to start giving it some stick, I did a few full throttle runs in 3rd gear from about 2k rpm up to about 6.5k rpm. Excuse the screen shot images, I'm sure I've seen people upload proper like scrolable tables here but I have no idea how to do it! I'm looking for a bit of assistance in interpreting some of the values on things I'm not sure about such as N75 duty and timing advance...

First Run, quite a large boost spike I thought but this was the first time on the run I had really planted the foot and it didn't spike nearly as high again. Holds a steady 8 - 9psi tailing off as it gets higher up which I believe is normal. Table below shows the N75 values, what do you think?





Second Run, same things again, spikes a lot lower this time.





Run 3, this time I have logged the throttle parameters and the ignition retard.





The MAF figures look ok to me, using the rough divide by 0.8 trick it gives a peak of 183bhp which is close enough for stock. I have no idea what the timing angle should be, does anyone know? As for the ignition delay it doesn't do much at all which I'll take it is a good thing, it runs religiously on nothing but Shell's finest V-Power, I'll take it there would be more action here if I ran "normal" petrol?

I don't think anythings wrong it's driving great, boosting nice and smoothly and pulling hard right up through the revs. I was just doing this out of curiosity really. Anyone's interpretation or input is much welcomed!
 
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nd-photo.nl

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Pressure also looks normal for stock AUQ. It reaches 1600-1700mbar, subtract 900-1000mbar (normal atmospheric pressure) and you see it reaches 600-700mbar, the normal values for a unchipped LC180.
 

Adam4D

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Your logs are very short, did you log all 3 blocks at once?

You should ideally log 1 block at a time to keep the sampling rate higher so you get a more detailed log.

But as said looks ok for stock 180
 

dazjstuart

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Thanks guys. Yes I logged all 3 at the same time. For the boost I logged block 115 on two of the channels and 118 on the third channel. Are you saying if you just log 1 block on 1 channel you get a lot more data points?

I thought the boost maybe looked a bit up and down but I suppose thats how the N75 works it constantly gets info on what the boost is and continually makes small adjustments? I have a new N75 that I tried to cure my ills ages ago but took it off again when it didn't make any difference, I'll probably stick it back on as the existing one is now more than 11 years old.

Cant really help on the info above but can i ask how do you get these logs to show up as a graph? :)
Highlight the data in excel and press the graph button ;)

Yeah I used the graph function in Excel. I see theres a graph thing in Vagcom but I haven't figured out a way of saving it (other than a screen shot), is there a way?
 
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Adam4D

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Yes log 1 block 1 channel and you'll get more data points.

4th would be better for seeing knock correction as the engine will under load for longer, obviously this is only for those brave enough or have a dyno to use. If you run through 3rd into 4th for as long as you can then you'll have a good idea how things are acting
 
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