Saturn Vue ecomod thread

[BenArcher006]

Redid my belly pan yesterday. I took à bigger coroplast piece and sculpted it to match all the engine bay openings. Now it goes from the front bumper to the end of the frond subframe.

Couldnt close the back of the engine bay because the exhaust downpipe and catalytic converter are there. I dont like coroplast near thèse things, I dont want my truck to catch fire.



Question: Why all my other pictures gone?

[BenArcher006]

I ordered Lowering springs for the Vue! It states -2.5in front -2in back and it remove a solid 2in from wheel arch gap.

The're in transit, cant wait to install them.

[BabyDiesel]

Your belly pan looks great, very smooth and flat! I also cannot wait to see the lowering springs installed and their effects.

It appears that your links are broken between your thread and album. I can still see the links when I go to edit your post with the pictures. I'm not sure what to do though??

[BenArcher006]

Today I installed an injectors kill switch. Thanks to the forum, I used an how-to I found here.

Took a 5 pin Bosch style relay
A couple of male and female connectors
A monentary normally open switch
14ga wires
Some loom

I cut the injectors power wire. Connected the relay in. Then I connected the relay to a 15Amps fused 12v and to the switch. Finally I grounded the switch.

I started the truck, then I hit the switch and the engine stopped. Yaaayy it works.

Now I have a problem with the Ultragauge. When I kill the engine, it kills the Ug too. I changed a couple of settingd in the UG, now it shuts off for like 2 seconds and come back on.

Well, I'll have to test it out on the road to see if the UG stills monitors my Mpgs. I can't wait to see my Mpgs go up as lots of people told my the ks was the best ecomod to improve fuel economy by EOC. I will need to get use to it, because earlier, I forgot to restart the engine on two stop lights.



Wires coming from injectors power wire.



Relay location... Under the dash.




The kill switch, when I was done, has since been taped to the shifter knob.

[BenArcher006]

Used the switch today, the UG seems to lose comm with the ECU went the engine stops and it stops calculating distance, speed and fuel economy.

Another drawback, the use of the switch sets P0200 dtc and the result of this code is tha the ECU disables the use of the Cruise control. If I clear the dtcs, the Cruise control is enable again.

Kinda disappointed, because any fuel saving from the use of the kill switch wont appear on the UG.

[oldtamiyaphile]

I had the same problem with my UG, no combination of settings would get it to work correctly under EOC, which is why I recommend SGII (with EOC friendly Hybrid mode). I have the opposite problem though, in that I've managed to make UG stay on (recording distance), but it takes a few seconds after restart before it registers MPG again, so if I do only short pulses, I can drive forever on 999 MPG!

[BenArcher006]

Just went out to see how much of a difference the kill switch made.

Did my test run in the city, so stop signs and stop lights. Since my UG shuts off if I coast in neutral and kill the engine, I coasted in fifth gear coming to a red light. Cant figure why, but my truck dosent seem to enter DFCO.

Really happy with the numbers... My little trip was about 1 mile long and I managed to pull out 29.5 mpg, which is pretty nice for a city run. My personnal best was 27mpg in a mixed run.

Well thats about it folks, Im way past my bedtime.

[Daox]

Originally Posted by BenArcher006

Question: Why all my other pictures gone?

It looks like you renamed your album and that changed the url path. I updated your old posts to the new url for you.

FYI, you can always attach the images right to the post.

[Cd]

Nice work !

I had to really look to see if you had grille blockers on.

Any plans for gap fillers around those tires ? ( in 'stealth' flat black of course )

[kafer65]

Great job there! I'd like to do the same but can't find wiring info on mine. The doors want to lock every time I start off from a light if I do EOC with the push button starter.

Sometimes I think the alternator or AC cycles on and keeps me out of DFCO.