First things first, this is not a rip on rob in any way, shape or form.
I made/worked on two turbonator based cals while at SDAC, one LM based and one SMEC based. on both, i left the staging limiter turned off. both cars broke up real bad under load in the middle rpm range. i changed the timing across the board, still happened, i added/subtracted fuel, still happened.
I never got the chance to turn the staging limiter on and retest.
the LM setup got another cal (still T-LM based from another persons PC) with similar fuel and timing curves popped in with the staging limiter on and it revved clean to redline and pulled hard.
The SMEC cars cal was sort of a guess.... 2.5L Hybrid, E85 with 120lb injectors. it started on the first try and idled perfectly and revved up just fine. as soon as youd load it hard though, it would miss and pop out the exhaust real bad. the AFR was varied from 11.5:1 to as rich as 8.9:1 (via the cal and AFPR) and the total timing (including dist advance) anywhere from 17deg to 30deg where it started popping. map curves were very similar to 2.5L T1 and govner had more timing in it from 2600 but tapered to be similar to 2.5LT1 by redline. nothing seemed to affect it enough to be conclusive to why it was happening.....
anyone running a T-LM or a T-SMEC cal, thats tuned in reasonably, can you go out and turn the staging stuff off and go for a drive and hammer the car in at least 3rd gear or 4th gear?
thanks!
Brian