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When I ran my ZE with a K8 ECU/JE50 for a few days, it was stupid rich.Mad Cow wrote:Black smoke is a symptom of being too rich or something bad in the ignition system. But my VAF was also bad so that might have caused a part of it, although it didn't smoke with a KL31 chip and the bad VAF.
Yes and no. In terms of peak power, maybe, but in terms of putting the power to the ground, if you have a wider band of a higher output, you'll be quicker on the street or strip. I think Deimos's dyno shows that very well when he dyno'd with a Probinator the second time. The VRIS points were obvious and looks like his average power output was significantly higher. He did add more mods like a CAI, exhaust and a Fidenza, but if you even the max output, you'll see it's smoother with less dips in powerMnemonic wrote:And if i said it once I'll say it again, different VRIS settings plays a very very very, very very very, very very very limited roll in your over all performance, i've tried every single vris setting from every single K series engine that i could possibly find, and the dyno numbers were off no more than 5whp in either direction (which with that small of a margin the numbers are really the same). All pulls were done under the same condition, with NO VRIS being the control. The only visible difference is a slight shift in power. In any of the settings the difference wasn't great enough to make any real difference in performance.
Nd4SpdSe wrote:When I ran my ZE with a K8 ECU/JE50 for a few days, it was stupid rich.Mad Cow wrote:Black smoke is a symptom of being too rich or something bad in the ignition system. But my VAF was also bad so that might have caused a part of it, although it didn't smoke with a KL31 chip and the bad VAF.
Yes and no. In terms of peak power, maybe, but in terms of putting the power to the ground, if you have a wider band of a higher output, you'll be quicker on the street or strip. I think Deimos's dyno shows that very well when he dyno'd with a Probinator the second time. The VRIS points were obvious and looks like his average power output was significantly higher. He did add more mods like a CAI, exhaust and a Fidenza, but if you even the max output, you'll see it's smoother with less dips in powerMnemonic wrote:And if i said it once I'll say it again, different VRIS settings plays a very very very, very very very, very very very limited roll in your over all performance, i've tried every single vris setting from every single K series engine that i could possibly find, and the dyno numbers were off no more than 5whp in either direction (which with that small of a margin the numbers are really the same). All pulls were done under the same condition, with NO VRIS being the control. The only visible difference is a slight shift in power. In any of the settings the difference wasn't great enough to make any real difference in performance.
