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Model: Civic SI 2020
Stock parts besides KTuner
Sorry for being verbose, I want to show that I have put some effort forth in researching prior to posting.
Hello everyone! I recently bought a KTuner with the TSP stage 1 map. Installed everything and the car feels tremendously better, absolutely love it. I am also super paranoid. The 2020 is new and I imagine a replacement engine isn't cheap. I read through the reliability survey before purchasing and that made me feel much better, but I still want to actively monitor the car and revert to stock at the first sign of anything suspicious.
I have been reading up, but I am still very new to all of this, the KTuner was a purchase as much about learning as it was performance.
1. What are some important metrics to look that might indicate an issue? I went on a 6 minute sprint and found that I had a knock count around 4 (4 misfires if I understand correctly?) which is totally normal, and that I should be monitoring my K Con, or knock control. That should be around .49, but anything under .9 is safe. For my 6 minute sprint, I am sitting at .59. Is my understanding above correct?
2. I also am watching the AFR, which is supposed to be around 14.7. How much of a deviation from this should be an alert?
3. How many misfires/knock count should worry me? I have seen official KTuner say "100's in a short period of time". Is that referring to 100's in a minute, or hundreds over 10 or 15 seconds?
4. Lastly, after reading KTuner manual I don't fully understand how logs work. I got in the car, and removed all logs from On Board Logging. I started the car and while in neutral I clicked "Start Logging". I shifted into gear and started driving. When I got back home, I had 4 sessions, most were only a few seconds long and the main one started with me in 5th gear already driving. Any idea what I may have done wrong? I can attach that log. Also while talking about logs, is there a way to see timestamps for the log? I wasn't able to find an option to add that to the on board logging menu. Only File Name (Session 1, 2, X), and Size. I tried right clicking the bar to add new fields, but that didn't work. The example in the KTuner documentation has additional fields, such as start time of the log
Stock parts besides KTuner
Sorry for being verbose, I want to show that I have put some effort forth in researching prior to posting.
Hello everyone! I recently bought a KTuner with the TSP stage 1 map. Installed everything and the car feels tremendously better, absolutely love it. I am also super paranoid. The 2020 is new and I imagine a replacement engine isn't cheap. I read through the reliability survey before purchasing and that made me feel much better, but I still want to actively monitor the car and revert to stock at the first sign of anything suspicious.
I have been reading up, but I am still very new to all of this, the KTuner was a purchase as much about learning as it was performance.
1. What are some important metrics to look that might indicate an issue? I went on a 6 minute sprint and found that I had a knock count around 4 (4 misfires if I understand correctly?) which is totally normal, and that I should be monitoring my K Con, or knock control. That should be around .49, but anything under .9 is safe. For my 6 minute sprint, I am sitting at .59. Is my understanding above correct?
2. I also am watching the AFR, which is supposed to be around 14.7. How much of a deviation from this should be an alert?
3. How many misfires/knock count should worry me? I have seen official KTuner say "100's in a short period of time". Is that referring to 100's in a minute, or hundreds over 10 or 15 seconds?
4. Lastly, after reading KTuner manual I don't fully understand how logs work. I got in the car, and removed all logs from On Board Logging. I started the car and while in neutral I clicked "Start Logging". I shifted into gear and started driving. When I got back home, I had 4 sessions, most were only a few seconds long and the main one started with me in 5th gear already driving. Any idea what I may have done wrong? I can attach that log. Also while talking about logs, is there a way to see timestamps for the log? I wasn't able to find an option to add that to the on board logging menu. Only File Name (Session 1, 2, X), and Size. I tried right clicking the bar to add new fields, but that didn't work. The example in the KTuner documentation has additional fields, such as start time of the log
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