S-AFC Question

[Acid7711]

If I buy this and install it on my car, will it be safe to have it on if I do not have it tuned or mess with any of the settings? As long as it's just plugged in and I don't try to tune it myself, I can still drive around with it right?

[jerkitt]

talk to xlracer657

he's got one and he said he'd been tuning it a lot more lately, and getting better 1/4 mile times

[sk8rpunkn8]

well to answer your question . . . yes youd be fine to drive around without it being tuned. if youre not changin any of the settings, its not changin anything with the af ratios so youre good.

[Acid7711]

so just pluggin it in and setting it to the correct 4 cylindar and mafs won't change a thing? Becaue I have to have it installed before monday because that's when it's gonna get tuned and I have to drive up there quite a ways.

Thanks.

[xlracer657]

yeah if you install a safc or a safcII you can run it in a detuned setting and your car will run like it does now like in my excel im running 5%more fuel at 2000rpm, 10% at 3500rpm, 13% at 4200rpm, 16% at 5500rpm, and 20% at 6500 that what my settings are for the street but im running a 50 shot on the street so your settings will be a little bit lower since your motor isnt really built that much and since you dont have bigger injectors, so if you talk to me if you buy one ill help you set it up 6 wires to install 4 for the maf and 2 for power and the box itself has other connections for other accesories like a knock sensor, boost sensor, igniton retard'er but yeah if you decide to buy on talk to me on how to set it:8D

[Acid7711]

Well. I figured today, that since I have just about almost every bolt on n/a mod you can do and now some internal parts work as well, I figured I could benifit from this right now too and the main reason I got this is it is the second to the last part I need to safely install my turbo. So anyways, I do have this thingie now. I've read through the book paritally on my brake at work today and yeah kinda confusing. I figured it can't be this hard but rather the book is prolly going way to in depth. The guy at the shop I bought this from says after you read through the book and talk around online basically, you can have a pretty good idea how to do it safely yourself on an n/a, but he said when it gets turboed, bring it to a dyno for that for sure.

So yeah! If you wouldn't mind givin me a hand xlracer, it would be very much appreciated. I do not have the safcII. I just have the regular old safc. I tried to get the second one, but they didn't carry it and I was kinda anxious. Plus the second one is quite a bit more. :hmmm:

I've found the ecu, but I can't get very good access to it, I think it's supposed to come down somehow but I can't get it to budge.

Can I while it is in this detuned state, well...Mabey it was the wrong thing, but at the last car show me and my friends set up, some guy had one in his Integra and when he started his car it was flashing all these numbers around. Can it do this while it is in this detuned stage?

Yeah. I just counted, 10 wires total on this thingie
And oh, I do have an msd dis2 if that is of any relevance. And my car does have 2 knock sensors right?

I am also wondering, when you loose power to the car, you loose the data stored in safc too right? So good to write these things down?

I did some searching and found this:
1000 rpm: 0%
2000 0%
3000 -3%
4000 -5%
5000 -9%
5500 -12%
6000 -15%
6500 -17%

Dunknow if that's right though or not. would a list of stuff I've done help me on this at all?

[Edited by Acid7711 on Jul 25, 2003 3:52 AM]

[Edited by Acid7711 on Jul 25, 2003 10:07 AM]

[rbuecker]

hey acid i'm just curious as to how your install went. any pointers for those of us who may pursue such a mod in the future (say oh .. tomorrow afternoon )

[Acid7711]

I sent you an email Install was a real pita.

[rbuecker]

Originally posted by Acid7711
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I sent you an email Install was a real pita.
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Thanks for the info! I'll be sharing my experiences and your recommendations here post-install. I am also looking to go the way of the kemper, and take enough images so that other people will feel more comfortable doing this- if they don't have as much experience as they'd like.

[Acid7711]

Yeah, sorry. I had a whole bunch of images, but I lost everything that I had on my backup harddrive messing around with experemental ntfs drivers in linux :dead: