TSI R18 Turbo Installed First Update

[Nathen]

Originally Posted by stealth

Dont mind the hate the grill is ok...

says the guy with the fail lights in his avatar

[Blue JDM Coupe1016]

this all sucks just when i started to have hope for my little r18 well guys by the end of next month i will install the kit i pieced together but it scares me cause i thought about getting the fic but yea look now

[06civictx]

Originally Posted by Blue JDM Coupe1016

this all sucks just when i started to have hope for my little r18 well guys by the end of next month i will install the kit i pieced together but it scares me cause i thought about getting the fic but yea look now

i know alot of ppl are gonna ask but...post pics of your pieced together kit

[tomasro]

Originally Posted by Blue JDM Coupe1016

this all sucks just when i started to have hope for my little r18 well guys by the end of next month i will install the kit i pieced together but it scares me cause i thought about getting the fic but yea look now

You're at sea level, so if you've got a manual the tune that is shipped with the kit will work great. Let's hope :)

[Blue JDM Coupe1016]

Originally Posted by tomasro

You're at sea level, so if you've got a manual the tune that is shipped with the kit will work great. Let's hope :)

key word lets hope and as for those pics i know everone is going to be like this guy is full of sh#t but no pics till i have it all in one thread about the road to boost from parts to actually getting the car to run right. also lets get back to these guys boost projects

[Blue JDM Coupe1016]

also any of you going boost have a dd or is this your dd

[Nathen]

Originally Posted by Blue JDM Coupe1016

i thought about getting the fic but yea look now

the FIC is NOT an auto tuner man. You cant just plug it in and plan on your car running perfect. you need to get it professionally tuned. thats normal.

[Blue JDM Coupe1016]

i know but it seems that people are having some serious problems but then again no one said it would be easy and i commend these guys cause i would be sh#ting bricks if this was my car and i was the first

[06civictx]

lmao,i just skim thru the comments but has any of you that have the turbo kit on actually taken it to a professional tuner?


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[Blue JDM Coupe1016]

Originally Posted by 06civictx

lmao,i just skim thru the comments but has any of you that have the turbo kit on actually taken it to a professional tuner?


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[sparda]

lets not lose it
the kit came this far ... few steps left

[projectprelude]

i spoke with TSI a few times yesterday and the guy ive been talking to told me he had a meeting with the tuner and that my problems should be resolved by tuning

[todd_tampabay]

thats why i wait to see what happens before jumping head first in the fire

[Civic Pride]

Originally Posted by projectprelude

i spoke with TSI a few times yesterday and the guy ive been talking to told me he had a meeting with the tuner and that my problems should be resolved by tuning

When are you going to get it tune?

[txgriff]

Originally Posted by 06civictx

lmao,i just skim thru the comments but has any of you that have the turbo kit on actually taken it to a professional tuner?


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I am going to get it professional tuned but I was kind of hoping that the pre tune was good enough so that I could drive to the shop instead of having it towed

[Civic Pride]

Originally Posted by txgriff

I am going to get it professional tuned but I was kind of hoping that the pre tune was good enough so that I could drive to the shop instead of having it towed

When do you plan to take it to the shop?

[txgriff]

I'm planning to hopefully have it tuned and ready to drive by friday next week, could be sooner

[06civictx]

Originally Posted by txgriff

I am going to get it professional tuned but I was kind of hoping that the pre tune was good enough so that I could drive to the shop instead of having it towed

lol you could drive it to the shop w/o towing to get it tuned,just dont drive it everyday un-tuned,btw you gonna be at hin this saturday?

[txgriff]

Originally Posted by 06civictx

lol you could drive it to the shop w/o towing to get it tuned,just dont drive it everyday un-tuned,btw you gonna be at hin this saturday?

naw I can't I have to work ...and actually I can't drive it the tune is so terrible that it can only idle good but when you reach around 2000 rpms it hesitates and starts to die hell I could barely pull it into the driveway and I know its the tune because we have messed with it a little and we can get it to respond better to throttle but still not very good.

[tomasro]

Sounds like the tuning is out of sync with the ECU. I had a similar experience when I started fiddling with the fuel map. You can trick the ECU to run richer by setting the O2 voltages lower. 2.21volts is about 14.7...where the engine is happiest. 1.8volts turns out to be about 13.6. The AEM FIC forum has a good amount of info on this. The trick is to tell the computer what O2 level you want to be at, and then compensating with enough fuel so that it doesn't have to add or subtract any to make it 14.7 like it wants on its end.

You can tell where the car is on the maps by opening up the gauges and the maps and it'll highlight where you are in the map and what the FIC is doing to the fuel system. You might think about getting a UEGO AFR gauge to help map what your AFR is doing at what PSI and RPM. Could do a short pc data log from you FIC until your car gets unstable. I could probably help diagnose some issues...it really helped for some of mine.

I imagine you haven't done this, but have you tried hammering it to WOT just for kicks? At that point, the car discards the sensor readings and just dumps all the fuel and air it is told to at its mapped points.

Did you calibrate the ignition timing at all or the O2 map? What is your MAP reading on the FIC reading at idle? Sorry for all the questions, I just want to help. The hardest part of any upgrade is tuning it just right