Look What I've Got

[John Sims]

Ok, I know it is very poor show to gloat over such things, but it has been very quiet on here and I've had a pretty poor old time with BKE over the last couple of weeks so you must allow me my moment of excitement.

I'm not quite sure what it does but, as a technomaniac, I can't help but love it. It's got lights, and buttons, and an LCD readout, and when you press some of the buttons the smoke stops comming out of the exhaust, and when you press the same buttons in a different way BKE stalls. [] How cool is that?

 

[chrisr]

John thats cool if just for the looks alone [] who cares what is does.

PS Cool website - passed half an hour last night ( oh god is that how sad im getting on a saturday night [] )

 

[chrisr]

Jesus Ive no idea what day it is !!! make that Thursday []

 

[Guest]

I particularly liked the rubber bands holding it in place. Or should they be called 'shock protection facility' ?

 

[Guest]

Cool......

Will you let us know what it does when you've worked it out?

 

[John Sims]

I particularly liked the rubber bands holding it in place.

It took me ages to find the colour to match the interior [] but is still one of the quickest and most satisfying modifications to date.

It is in temporary install mode at the moment while I decide if I want it available for those subtle fueling tweeks or if, once set up, it gets hidden away in the glove box.

I favour the latter as it is sitting where I intend to fit the AFR gauge but it does work well there.

Thanks for the comments on the web site Chris - I must get round to putting more on it at some stage.

 

[John Sims]

Will you let us know what it does when you've worked it out?

Well, apparently, it does lots of things but the gist of it is you can adjust the fueling up or down at any one of 144 zones on the engine management fuel map. [8|]

Now if your fuel map was spot on in the first place then you, obviously, don't need to touch it, but as I'm a pathological fiddler I can have hours of fun further mucking up what was previously a perfectly good car.

 

[Diver944]

I've always wondered how one of those things attaches to the ecu? Is it a simple piggyback into the connector or is it more involved. I thought Wayne was going to do your remapping for you?

Do the elastic bands come in Baltic blue to match my interior?

 

[John Sims]

I've always wondered how one of those things attaches to the ecu? Is it a simple piggyback into the connector or is it more involved.

Not that I know much about it, and I have little doubt that Mr Cannell will be able to provide us with the full SP, but my understanding is as follows:-

The Link MAP kit sends a signal to the Porsche engine management fooling it into thinking that the Air Flow Meter (AFM) still exists. The Link programmer just fine tunes that signal allowing you to adjust what the Porsche boxes recieve to fool them into providing more or less fuel.

The Link programmer plugs straight into the Link MAP box and talks directly to this box, it doesn't talk to the ECU as such.

Wayne, as I understand is going to reconfigure the replaced KLR & DME chips. These should work in exactly the same way as if the AFM was still there but are tweaked to take advantage of the reduction in restriction to the intake air after the removal of the "Barn Door". For some reason the mapping on my replacement Guru chips was wrong for BKE.

In theory, I could have retained my original Guru chips and, if the Link MAP system was set up correctly, BKE would have run just as before, but with less lag.

So in summary:-

1. You need a Link MAP kit to plug the Link programmer into.

2. You don't need a Programmer in the MAP kit, KLR & DME chips are all correct for your car.

Taking all of the above into account, by Monday evening my programmer should be redundant. But then it is fun just to have that little tweak and, theoretically, if I were to change injectors, the programmer could transpose the revised map accordingly. []