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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:50 am 
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My Kams and Lambse all show to be good. I just upgraded from cast iron ported GT40 heads with a ported cobra intake to Vic Jr heads, ported RPM II intake, and 1.7's RR's. My cam is 228/238 duration. Car runs great! In closed loop at idle my LC1 is datalogging 15.5-16.5 AFR. My Kams are left bank 1.05 and Rt bank .99 pretty consistantly. My Lambse is showing right about 14.4-14.6 so maybe just a tad lean. When I'm driving the WB ready about stoich, 14.3-14.9, very consistantly and the KAMS arte right in the .95-1.05 range everywhere. It just seems off at idle. I've heard of strange O2 readings at idle with longtubes or a big cam, but all I did was change heads and intake with slightly more lift using 1.7's on the exhaust valve. Could the increase in lift be causing the issue?

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 11:28 am 
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thats not lean thats perfect

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 11:43 am 
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Yes acording to the KAMs, and the Lambse it's perfect, but my wideband is showing in the 16's at idle. That is not matching what I should be seening in closed look which is 14.7ish. I'm thinking it could be a small exhaust leak possibly?

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:21 pm 
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decipha wrote:
thats not lean thats perfect


Agreed. My afr @ idle is around 1.10 lambda.Perfectly fine.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 3:29 pm 
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But if it's in closed loop then wouldn't I see something closer to stoich like I did before the swap and like I do now under part throttle driving? It's only reading off at idle.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 3:42 pm 
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Diabolic1 wrote:
But if it's in closed loop then wouldn't I see something closer to stoich like I did before the swap and like I do now under part throttle driving? It's only reading off at idle.


No, your cam is creating some exhaust reversion due to the overlap built into it thus showing lean on the wideband but in reality is actually stoich or a lil rich.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 6:09 pm 
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I think you are correct. I haven't installed a larger cam but I did go from 1.94 intake vales to 2.05's and 1.50 to 1.60 exhaust valves. I also increased the lift by .300. I triple checked and can find zero exhaust leaks, I recalibrated the sensor, and my hegos on both banks wander from 14.3 then creep to 14.9 then back to 14.2, repeat, repeat, repeat. My Kams show .97 to 1.02 so that looks like my Hegos info is accurate. Sucks because it just looks wrong when I look at the gauge.. IT actually gets the highest vacume reading when I richen the mix, and command 14.2 in open loop, but the wideband still shows 16.+.

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 1:53 am 
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This I believe is normal.

I've seen it before on engines equipped with long tube headers. It also does it on my 5.0 with BBK Ceramic coated Long tubes. On a bone cold start up my Innovate MTX-L will show(after Bosch O2 Htr hits operating temp) 16.5 to 17:1 lean at idle warm up. Once the headers get some heat in them the Wideband starts to mirror the LAMBSE targets reported in TunerPro RT(yes, I use TunerPro rather than BE).

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