Hi all -
First post here...I signed up because I can't find much info on these 3.5L in regards to tuning. The ole lady's Edge just doesn't feel right to me when I stomp on the gas (ex. a passing situation). The thing downshifts and screams, but doesn't seem to go anywhere in a hurry. At first I thought tranny was slipping so I hooked up my HPTuners to gather a log. Whoaa! Talk about either crappy tune or something seriously out of whack.
Here's a 3rd gear pull, in manual mode...
At 5300rpm I'm seeing ~7 degrees of timing and a commanded lambda of 0.650! For those of you that don't have a calculator, lambda 0.650 is 9.56 AFR!!! No wonder it feels like a turd, it's probably make like 125hp with that timing and AFR.
Also, look at about 4000rpm, the thing is WOT and still commanding stoich with about 2.6 degrees timing!
So my question is: Is this normal or is something wrong?
Background - I've messed with HPTuners on GM vehicles, but never Ford. I'm not looking to tune this thing, just figure out if it's operating normally or not. On some of the GM's, especially trucks, it's common to see a huge delay commanding richer than stoich AFR when going WOT. So, if Ford is doing the same thing up until the 4000rpm mark, in this case, that doesn't seem foreign to me. My understanding is they do this for fuel mileage so you aren't going into fuel enrichment every time you squeeze on the gas a little too heavy. With that said, the GM's also crank the timing up as the fuel enrichment is added. I'm not seeing this Edge add much timing as it starts dumping fuel, a lot of fuel! Strange.
2011 Edge 3.5L SEL AWD, ~140k miles.
Feel free to comment! Thanks in advance.