alright.. i re-did the connections.. now only the buttons on the avcr light up.. not the display.. but the afc turns on fine and the display works.. any help would be great!

Regis

 

Nevermind.. just reinstalled the profec instead..

PS.. Moderator please delete this thread

Regis

 

The problem is with the vampire taps. GARBAGE. It is hard to get a proper signal with those things. Whenever you install an AFC you should always solder the connections. It is not the kind of thing you want to just shut off all of a sudden because a connection breaks. Same goes for the AVCR.

 

Give the AVC-R a chance. I have one and love it. It takes a while to learn how to use but they can do a lot. Some people write them off without taking the time to figure them out.

If the buttons were lighting up, it was probably getting power, but you probably either miswired something or there is a bad connection. Brian is right. Solder everything. It is a good practice accross the board to use.

I don't mean to sound like a spokesman for Apexi, but I have read many posts of people who used the AVC-R for a week and said it sucked or didn't work and gave up on it. There are a lot of things to setup, and it probably boils down to something not being programmed correctly. It did a great job with my T-25, but now that I have a 16G it is begining to shine. I think it would also be especially helpful for the FWD guys because they could set it to build boost slower in the lower gears helping to reduce wheelspin.

 

Cool.. thanks for the advice guys.. i actually re-installed it yesterday, my friend's dad took a look at it, and it was actually a bad ground with one of the scramble boost wires.. it's back in (and soldered hehe) it was worth the time though.. it's somewhat tuned right now.. but i have terrible boost creep (even with an HRC 02 eliminator) which makes it impossible to monitor boost over 5k..

Regis

 

You can probably lessen your creep a lot with proper tuning of the AVC-R. Try lowering your feedback settings. Also, by default the system will "learn" over several days and slowly dial in the boost. You could also lower solonoid pulse width. There are other settings to help with it too. It is complicated, but just read the manual 100 times, and mess with it a lot. Figure out what each parameter does and get it right for your current setup. You could probably eliminate any spiking (or dial it in) or creeping you have. Of course if it is horrible, you might try to correct it at the source (external gate? external dump?).

What is your setup?

 

right now the turbo/exhaust setup's a 16g, internal, with a 3" hahn 02 eliminator dp, test pipe, n1 cat back

i'm still waiting for a 2g manifold, and i might get a 35mm tial at the same time.. i would think that would for sure get rid of creep.. this illinois weather is making tuning a pain.. the other day it was like 20 degrees, and right now it's 52!!! it was only creeping in lower gears in REALLY cold weather.. i can understand that though.. but i'm going to go mess with the avcr in this weather, and see how everything works out

Thanks guys

Regis

 

It will store two seperate tuning programs. Make one for cold weather and one for warmer weather. 20 degrees is cold!

 

you need to ground both grounding wires...

 

you need to ground both grounding wires...

Oh shittt, attack of the super ol thread!!! :tat: