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Trinost · 06-13-2015, 06:30 AM

I'll be honest I have never worked with anything electronic. I am a little nervous cutting wires under the hood. I have no idea how to set up that 5 pin relay or what type of wire I should be using. Post 2 and 3 with photos is where you lost me with port numbers and the part about cleaning something up? What did you clean up? I am lost on that part. What did you do under the cabin?

Thanks

On the throttle smoothing circuit, it makes it drive like a metro bus. I am not certain what you mean. Reading about your location I can see how it might not help much if your are not using the throttle a lot with your mostly flat roads

. Myself there are a lot of hills here (never noticed until got this car) and force me to let off and engaged the throttle quite often trying to get a decent FCD reading for good mpg. My personal best so far is 82mpg, but that was on a fully grid charged battery and smooth road at 40MPH for 18 miles. Normally it is floating between 50 and 65 mpg regardless if hwy or city if I try really hard with no head wind if lucky. Our freeway requires 65mph. I read in threads that it is hard to keep LB at that speed. Keeping a steady foot is like holding the tail of a pissed off bull with these hills.

I did purchase a ultra gauge and thinking of putting TPS, Eng load, o2 sensor, and RPM on left side (in that order). Thinking if possible set up alarm or something that lets me know when TPS+load is over 130 combine for lost LB and 65 combine to tell me I am in LB. http://www.insightcentral.net/forums...tps-65-lb.html

I found this site on another thread here, at bottom, explaining some details on how the throttle smoothing circuit works and makes sense to me. Anyone tried it where their is a lot of throttle action like with hills every quarter to half mile?

AutoSpeed - Giving the Insight a Good Driver

06-13-2015, 06:30 AM	#125 (permalink)
Trinost EcoModding Lurker Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: Texas Posts: 18 Thanks: 6 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I'll be honest I have never worked with anything electronic. I am a little nervous cutting wires under the hood. I have no idea how to set up that 5 pin relay or what type of wire I should be using. Post 2 and 3 with photos is where you lost me with port numbers and the part about cleaning something up? What did you clean up? I am lost on that part. What did you do under the cabin? Thanks On the throttle smoothing circuit, it makes it drive like a metro bus. I am not certain what you mean. Reading about your location I can see how it might not help much if your are not using the throttle a lot with your mostly flat roads . Myself there are a lot of hills here (never noticed until got this car) and force me to let off and engaged the throttle quite often trying to get a decent FCD reading for good mpg. My personal best so far is 82mpg, but that was on a fully grid charged battery and smooth road at 40MPH for 18 miles. Normally it is floating between 50 and 65 mpg regardless if hwy or city if I try really hard with no head wind if lucky. Our freeway requires 65mph. I read in threads that it is hard to keep LB at that speed. Keeping a steady foot is like holding the tail of a pissed off bull with these hills. I did purchase a ultra gauge and thinking of putting TPS, Eng load, o2 sensor, and RPM on left side (in that order). Thinking if possible set up alarm or something that lets me know when TPS+load is over 130 combine for lost LB and 65 combine to tell me I am in LB. http://www.insightcentral.net/forums...tps-65-lb.html I found this site on another thread here, at bottom, explaining some details on how the throttle smoothing circuit works and makes sense to me. Anyone tried it where their is a lot of throttle action like with hills every quarter to half mile? AutoSpeed - Giving the Insight a Good Driver Last edited by Trinost; 06-13-2015 at 06:40 AM..