Help with building your Speeduino, installing it, getting it to run etc.
By MGR550
#67461
Figured out the fuel pump issue, was bad crimp on the wiring on my part.
For the trigger wheel, I hadn't actually ever counted the reduction from crank to distributor housing shafts; turns out it is 2:1, so I cut 1 more tooth off my 36-1 trigger wheel and made it into sortof a pair of 18-1 wheels which seems to work well in the tooth logger.
Got the wiring onto the bike nicely, intake adapter and throttle body on and a temporary fuel feed hooked up and managed to fire it up!
Was giving a few puffs out the exhaust and a few coughs/prefire out the throttle body during cranking, but once it fired up it seemed to hold idle for the 2 or 3 seconds it was on for before I shut it off.
What should I be looking for in the log file at this point for debugging and starting off? Only focus on idle-related settings until its idling proper? So many things to check and tune I'm not sure where to start.
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By MGR550
#68402
Hello again,

Added some voltage corrections to inj and dwell setting which helped greatly with starting, then finally did a run to get it up to operating temperature. Tune and logs attached.
Overall seemed pretty good, has a lot of the typical rotary brap at idle and is pretty choppy. During warmup, something settled/heated up enough around 240 seconds and it ran smoother after that.
Ignition advance map is pretty basic and values pulled directly from old service bulletin; didn't have any load sensing feedback back then.
Peripheral port rotaries don't typically pull that much vacuum and I think log file agrees with 49kpa minimum so figured TPS is probably best load axis.
Let me know what you think! Next up is tuning VE tables?

Thanks all!
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By MGR550
#69474
Back on this once again, was doing more reading over the summer so now have a better idea of tuning I think.
Got it warmed up again today and started taking a swing at tuning low load VE and seeing how the bike responds, but was running into a few issues.
At idle speed, the AFR jumps around quite a lot, but smooths out a bit above 2k rpm. I think this might be because the exhaust is quite short and maybe pulsing of the exhaust at the lower rpms allows it to pull in air or catch rebounding pulses? Easy enough to ignore for idle tuning and seems to go away somewhat at working rpms.
Other issue is after holding slightly higher rpms for ~10 sec or so, it goes lean and quits, so I think my little fuel pump can't keep up with demand. Will try putting on a pressure gauge to verify.
Also tried kick starting it and it worked very well, was kind of surprised it was able to catch in the ~1.5 turns per kick
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By PSIG
#69486
I think it is good you are considering all factors in the system, such as reversion or fuel pressure. As the O2 may not be reading accurately, I would also tune based on engine response, and ignore AFR for now. While it may not be 'the' answer, it may lead you to other answers.

There are various reasons O2 may not be accurate, but can still be used as a reference once best fueling is found by tuning. Find what it likes best at steady mid-range rpm, then smoothly taper that down for idle, and up for high-rpm. I noticed one area with 30% change in fuel across only a few hundred rpm, for example. Let us know how it goes and what you find!

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