This is my first winter with the corn, is it normal for a car on E85 to struggle starting in cold weather? Should the injector pulse width be adjusted on cold start?
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Welcome to the club.. Took me like 5 cranks in one of a 42deg morning the last week
My car fires right up first shot just like stock.
So did my Cobra. Both cars took multiple cranks before the tune adjustments.
There is a setting in the tune where you can adjust the time the O2 sensors warm up. Also there are setting for Crank Lambda and other settings as well.
These make the car crank like stock.
For the 2013 I used the logic from the F150 Flex Fuel CPU. Thanks to Shaun at AED for the help on the new stuff. The old stuff I just figured out on my own but the same principles are used.
Amazing, Isn't it? LOL. :thumbsup::rockon:
about the only other thing I've noticed is it seems to fire first try every time...but I do "key" the pumps a couple times before attempting to fire. My neighbor, who's mister ethanol hater...can't believe it when he knows I let this cobra sit for days and then he sees me fire it up first try. LOL. He's like "no way...you can't really be running E85...just e10 kills my lawn mower.." :nonono::lol:
If it takes 10 tries, it sounds like something else may be off as well. (Ie. tune)Interesting, I am am going to see if adding some more fuel on startup will help. I still have the fall blend in my car, and the temps here have been in the mid 40's. I will take a vid for you guys of it trying to start, the first 10 tries are useless
04 Sleeper, what did your 5.0 make on the corn?