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    Need a little help with fuel trims

    OK guys I tuned the VE table with a wideband to within 2% on almost all cells. I pulled the wideband, reenabled closed loop and now I'm seeing short term fuel trims avg between -1.2 and + 1.2 but my LTFT are 5+ to 17+. What the hell is going on? Should I just ignore or disable LTFT?

    BTW: I'm using lean cruise on an 04 GTO and running around 16.4 AFR when in those cells.
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    your 02's seem really lazy to me. Mine switch much faster. But I have never been able to get my 02's to agree with my wideband. There is always a 2-5% difference between the two. I disabled my LTFT since I know my truck is tuned with the wideband all the way up to redline. I didn't want the LTFT to be adding to PE when I would get on it. If you are tuned within 1-2%, then stft should be just fine.
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    ^ It's odd you say that because I have been very nervous about trims vs my WB corrections lately... Just being paranoid, I guess..... Wondering if my WB is accurate, or setup correctly thru the EGR, but my trims are within 1%, so I guess it's not too far off.

    And OP, how often do you re-calibrate your WB? When was the last time your trims were reset?
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    Trims get reset every time I flash it right? So at least daily since I've been working on the high octane spark table.

    I'm not running the wideband right now but I ran it for about a month and it was very consistent. I set the offset in HPT for the wideband to read "perfectly"
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    Quote Originally Posted by radkon View Post
    Trims get reset every time I flash it right? So at least daily since I've been working on the high octane spark table.

    I'm not running the wideband right now but I ran it for about a month and it was very consistent. I set the offset in HPT for the wideband to read "perfectly"
    The trims don't get reset when you flash it. if you want to reset them, you can go into the scanners vcm controls under the fuel tab and reset. If you are fuel tuning and not resetting the trims after every flash, you are running yourself in a circle.
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    Lazy O2 sensors follow from long tubes, and will steer
    your fuel trims off to the + side and drive closed loop
    low-pedal / idle operation rich.

    If you get it clean in open loop tuning and then it goes
    to crap when you re-enable closed loop, this is your
    problem most likely.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oakley6575 View Post
    The trims don't get reset when you flash it. if you want to reset them, you can go into the scanners vcm controls under the fuel tab and reset. If you are fuel tuning and not resetting the trims after every flash, you are running yourself in a circle.
    Didn't realize that. I haven't been messing with fueling, just timing.

    Quote Originally Posted by jimmyblue View Post
    Lazy O2 sensors follow from long tubes, and will steer
    your fuel trims off to the + side and drive closed loop
    low-pedal / idle operation rich.

    If you get it clean in open loop tuning and then it goes
    to crap when you re-enable closed loop, this is your
    problem most likely.
    I am running long tubes so that explains it.
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    ^ That LT O2's thing isn't the first time I've heard that...
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