Adaptronic owners thread

Lokiel · Postby **Lokiel** » Sun May 17, 2015 9:15 am

So have you bugged Andy yet regarding the brake booster barb as a MAP source?

Garry · Postby **Garry** » Sun May 17, 2015 9:17 pm

No, I'm still waiting to hear back from him for a fix to the throttle tip in stumble. I've been waiting for over a month, he must be a very busy man. I'll ask his thoughts on the pick up point of the map sensor when he gets back to me. I haven't chased him up yet because it wasn't mission critical. I've been getting other stuff sorted out first. The neutral switch was broken which was causing bad "idle droop" and stalling. I finally managed to replace the switch this week and the idle is very much improved on my test drive today. Next thing on the list is to get the starting sorted.

Postby **NitroDann** » Sun May 17, 2015 9:29 pm

Neutral switch?

Garry · Postby **Garry** » Sun May 17, 2015 9:42 pm

Yes, on the passenger side of the gearbox. It works with the clutch switch. It was stuck on so the ECU never knew when the car was idling.

Postby **NitroDann** » Sun May 17, 2015 9:59 pm

Does it really only have that one way of knowing when to idle?

Garry · Postby **Garry** » Sun May 17, 2015 10:16 pm

No, it learns the gears and/or knows when the car is stationary from the speed sensor but it still had trouble with idle droop. With the factory neutral and clutch switches the idle is much better. I guess that's why Mazda went to the trouble of installing them in the first place.

Postby **NitroDann** » Sun May 17, 2015 10:31 pm

Other ecu's use rpm and rate of rpm change over time to determine when to go closed loop, and most obviously, the throttle position sensor.

Garry · Postby **Garry** » Mon May 18, 2015 6:15 pm

No idea if Adaptronic does that too. I know SFA about it and don't really care to tell you the truth. I have no desire to be a tuner, I'm just trying to get my car to work how it's supposed to.

Postby **NitroDann** » Mon May 18, 2015 6:19 pm

Im simply suggesting that it probably cound have been fixed quickly without the need for replacement hardware.

Garry · Postby **Garry** » Mon May 18, 2015 6:34 pm

The easy fixes suggested to me didn't work. Replacing the faulty hardware did. But back to my original question ND. Where do other ECU's take the map sensor reading from on an NB8B?

Postby **NitroDann** » Mon May 18, 2015 6:42 pm

Between the throttle body plate and the valves, preferably directly behind the throttle body or at the very rear of the inlet manifold plenum.

Dann

Garry · Postby **Garry** » Mon May 18, 2015 6:49 pm

OK, thanks

Dweezle · Postby **Dweezle** » Mon May 18, 2015 6:52 pm

How would you add that to the Inlet Manifold?
Thread/weld a port on??

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Postby **NitroDann** » Mon May 18, 2015 8:27 pm

Either/or, but there are countless options available in OEM form.

Dweezle · Postby **Dweezle** » Mon May 18, 2015 8:49 pm

Ahh my bad.
I just assumed you meant adding something.

Reading it again i see that you just one of the oem existing feeds!!

Face PALM!!

I was using a tee from the fuel pressure Regulator.
As i had read that it was a cleaner signal but when Mania tuned it they went back to the feed at the Throttle Body.

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