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Old Jun 13, 2016 | 05:32 PM
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No, and I can't help you find it, but there is a setting that determines starting timing. No joke. My tuner set mine so that my motor turns over 5 or 6 times before it fires since I'm running pretty good compression now. Ensures there's plenty of fuel to ignite before the spark comes along. I know what he's talking about.
Yeah, maybe that's why he suggested a SERT. Said there were things the PV can't do. Maybe this is one of them. I'll have a deeper look though. Thanks.
 
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Old Jun 13, 2016 | 06:37 PM
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Yeah, maybe that's why he suggested a SERT. Said there were things the PV can't do. Maybe this is one of them. I'll have a deeper look though. Thanks.
I'm PV tuned. It's the start delay. I don't know if that'll help your problem or not. No expert, just do a lot of reading and fix stuff for a living. Call it a semi educated wild *** guess.
 
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Old Jun 13, 2016 | 07:04 PM
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I'm PV tuned. It's the start delay. I don't know if that'll help your problem or not. No expert, just do a lot of reading and fix stuff for a living. Call it a semi educated wild *** guess.
Actually I think we're talking about two different things. He was saying retard ignition timing 3deg. during starting. I think you are talking about delaying the actual firing of the spark an amount of time before it starts - in seconds?
 
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Actually I think we're talking about two different things. He was saying retard ignition timing 3deg. during starting. I think you are talking about delaying the actual firing of the spark an amount of time before it starts - in seconds?
We are. But I'm wondering if it would do the same thing.
 
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We are. But I'm wondering if it would do the same thing.
Got some info from the helpful chaps in the ECM tech section. Here's the cells needs to be changed: (Note: this is not my actual tune, just a grab of the stock map that I had on my work pc)

The KPa's at 80-100 at 750, 1000 and 1250 RPMS should be dropped on both cyls to 1 from 4, which will retard timing 3 deg at startup. Going to try it tonight.

 
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Old Jun 19, 2016 | 09:03 AM
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A few months after having a HD 103" kit installed on my '08 FXDC, would hear a horrible sound from starter, kinda like the teeth were skipping. Happened only now and then, and only with warm engine, but over time got worse. Had the jack-shaft replaced, and it's been good since.
 
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