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what kind of motor? and any aditional info on the setup might help...
 

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he's looking for the map for me actually. I have a 2004 acura rsx-s with crower stage 2 3/4 cams, injen cai, dc race header, buddy club spec iii exhaust, and hondata kpro. now I don't believe its a problem with a sensor or anything since im not throwing any codes and I also don't seem to be the only one facing this problem. another one of my problems was a severe knock under low load and low rpm (under 3500) but a lot of people including people running ips cams have come to conclude that its due to increased valvetrain noise since reducing timing even dramatically does not solve the problem but the main problem I have now is during the high cam switchover the motor hesitates and then switches to the high cam im starting to think that this is due to a bad crossover point (4900) and possible a bad composite cam angle map because when I have run the standard ips map just to see if I'd have the same results and I didn't, it offered a much smoother crossover and up top it sounded a lot better but I believe that's only due to the maps 50 degree advance on the high cam im just currently looking for a proven to work crower map or something safe to use until I can get money for some dyno time I realize not all motors are the same and if I can get a map that just needs minor touching up that would be great or any info from people that have used/tuned crower stage 2 3/4 cams on what to do would be greatly appreciated
 

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every engine is different and their combination, I have the crower setup in my car right now, and you will see the CEL light flicker pretty fast from 1800-3500 or so... this is not sparkknocking.. however if you did nail it say at 2800 you could hear a bit of sparknock, but not much, but lately my map has much improved.

the map crower has given out has columns 8-9-10 pretty well mapped for the design of the cams (fuel wise) because it's tuned for full power, the lower columms need much rifinement under part throttle in open loop. but it's nothign a couple days of driving can't tune almost perfectly. it takes time to do all the cam angles but it does cure alot of hesitation issues and driving issues.

mostly from openloop to closeloop transitions. because even if you let off the gas, your car will still go in closedloop for a couple seconds and if your map isn't tuned right you could see fluctuations.

for the vtec crossover point, you problably have a rich spot and ti's acting up on ya, try putting it higher until tuned and you'll see it fade in...

tunning these cams over a thread is very hard.

I never had any issues with mine, and your setup is about close to what was done with the basemap, so i'd say it's time to drive around and tune it... for all the flickers you would see with the cel, disriguard it, if you hear knocking in the engine bay, then act upon it.

my vtec cross over is at 5300 but it could be much lower. if your low cams are tuned right you'll notice that the baselobes make great power, and you don't need a early vtec. ti's all about the tuned VTC.

since my map is tuned for a 99mm stroke motor my ignition values would not be good for your setup.
 
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