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-====== Fuel Settings ====== 
-This page describes the basic usage of the Fuel tab in the ECU Config section of the ECMLink application. ​ This page is just a dump and reformat of the same information provided in the help file with the ECMLink application. 
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-===== Fuel Adjustments Table ===== 
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-The **Fuel Adjustments Table** allows rpm-based adjustment of the air fuel ratio relative to the ECU's stock operation.  Moving a point up (or increasing the adjustment value by typing in the numeric table) makes the mixture richer; lowering it makes the mixture leaner.  An adjustment of, say, -5% means multiplying the stock fuel amount by 0.95 (delivering 5% less fuel than stock).  Most adjustments will be negative numbers since stock fuel delivery is a rather rich, conservative mixture.  Between rpm points, the ECU interpolates between the two adjacent rpm settings. 
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-The adjustment described in the preceeding pargraph is fully applied only when the value for LoadFactor (essentially the same as Airflow/rev [or Boost adjusted by VE]) is above 1.6 (about 10 psi of boost).  Below a LoadFactor of 0.8 (roughly atmospheric pressure) none of the adjustment is applied.  Between a LoadFactor of 0.8 and 1.6, the adjustment is applied proportionally.  For example, a -5% adjustment value at a LoadFactor of 1.0 results in a -1.25% adjustment actually applied: 
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-  Real adj = -5% * (1.0 - 0.8) / (1.6 - 0.8) = -1.25% 
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-Multiple contiguous fuel adjustment points may be selected by holding the Shift key and using the mouse or the left/right arrow keys, and adjusted simultaneously in equal increments using the up/down arrow keys or dragging with the mouse up/down. 
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-===== Settings ===== 
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-The **Global fuel** and **Deadtime** adjustments are intended to be used mainly to compensate for injector flow rate and fuel pressure that differ from stock. They are applied at all times. ​ There is also a secondary fuel scale and deadtime adjustment conditionally applied with Full V3 (see the ECU Config->​AuxMaps tab).  But you have to go out of your way to enable that, so it's not something we'll cover here. 
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-==== Global fuel ==== 
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-The stock ECU assumes that the car is equipped with 450 cc/min injectors and a fuel pressure of either 37 psi (1G) or 42.6 psi (2G).  As injector size is increased, the Global fuel adjustment must be made more negative.  Reducing the **Global fuel** adjustment value to, say, -50% to compensate for 900 cc/min injectors cuts fuel delivery in half. 
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-The needed Global fuel adjustment value may be calculated as follows: 
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-  FlowRateAdj1G = squareroot(BaseFuelPressure / 37) 
-  FlowRateAdj2G = squareroot(BaseFuelPressure / 42.6) 
-  FlowRateAdjEVO1-3 = squareroot(BaseFuelPressure / 42.6) 
-  NewInjFlow = InjectorCCPerMin * FlowRateAdj 
-  Adj = (100 * ( 450 / NewInjFlow ) ) - 100 
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-Where BaseFuelPressure is specified in PSI and InjectorCCPerMin is the flowrate of the injectors at 43.5psi (the standard flowrate reference pressure).  Some slight empirical tweaking of this theoretically-derived value may be needed to get actual air/fuel ratios to match what the ECU intends.  Since the Global fuel adjustment value is a multiplier applied to the injector pulsewidth, altering it tends to change the actual air/fuel ratio proportionally under all conditions. 
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-==== Deadtime ==== 
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-ECMLink provides access to the factory deadtime adjustment table in the DirectAccess tab.  The line item is called "​**InjBatteryAdj**"​. ​ This is a table of injector offsets to apply based on battery voltage. ​ The global deadtime field on the ECU Config->​Fuel tab is simply added to whatever value is derived from that **InjBatteryAdj**field. ​ Typically, the larger the injector or the higher the fuel pressure, the greater the injector'​s deadtime. 
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-The **Deadtime**adjustment value usually needs some tweaking to get actual air/fuel ratios to match what the ECU intends. ​ Since the **Deadtime**adjustment value is added to the injector pulsewidth, altering it tends to change the actual air/fuel ratio mostly at idle where the base injector pulsewidth is small and the deadtime adjustment is relatively large. ​ Deadtime adjustment has very little effect at wide open throttle where injector pulsewidth is already considerably larger. 
  
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