Blue Chip Box ?

[Sixspeed]

Steve, are you saying that you ran another set of wires to where the thermocouple taps into the the exhaust manifold. Or where the wires hook up to the gauge. Sorry for being unclear but I do much better with pictures ( carpenter/blueprints )





Thanks, Les

 

[Todd T]

it sounds like Steve is running two sets of guages off of one thermocouple. one set of wires go to his analog gauge and the other feeds into the TST harness, which then allows for the TST box to control fueling from the EGT input information.



Steve, to take it a step further. I saw a post a while back that someone could build us a dual lead thermocouple. i will do a search and try to track it down. that would get you away from the misreading and give you back an actuarate dual output. although 20F is not much to worry about.



Six, the thermocoupler and its lead is a balanced system. It should only have a certain (prespecified) amount of resistance to read properly.

 

[Sixspeed]

ToddT, Thats what I thought as far as the length of the wire from the thermocouple. Although I guess you could drill and tap the other exhaust port and just run two. I assume all these boxs have a built in boost fooler. Which would mean that it would read the voltage from the MAP sensor first. Use that voltage to determine boost presure. Then limit the signal to the ECM so that it would keep fueling.





Les

 

[work2muchplay2little]

Update on FMS Premium - production model

Well, finally got my production model of the Premium FMS Bluechip box. The only additional wiring was for a simple pressure switch that goes to the fuel pressure sampling port on top of the fuel filter on my '99. In going through the menus, it's apparent they've changed some of the software from the beta-unit. Instead of having separate menus to select your turbo and transmission, there is a "Smoke Control" menu. This has even been changed from the time the instructions were printed as they were different. There are three choices now; minimum smoke, normal smoke, and more performance. These seem to determine how early the maximum fueling rate selected under the fueling menu comes on. With my HX-40, "normal smoke" produces about 4-5 seconds of smoke at WOT before the boost comes on, on "more performance" maybe 6-7 seconds of smoke. The menu that selects between "street mode" and "drag race mode" determines whether to use the ramped fueling mode as selected under "smoke control" or to just go to maximum fueling rate immediately which would be "drag race mode" very smokey!! The defueling is selectable from about 6 different temps - up to 1300 degrees and is very smooth. Other than these few changes the original feature set is intact. A couple of things I asked for as a beta-user were not implemented such as being able to have the unit memorize a couple of user settings so that one could go to instant drag race mode and maximum fueling with a button push instead of spending 10-20 seconds working the menus to set it up. Also asked for ability to set the fueling menu to an increment of 5 instead of 1 for 13 levels instead of 63 to speed up changes. Overall, I'm happy with the box and have mounted it below the dash on the right to keep the dash clean, and not give too many hints to the competition... . like that guy tonight in the brand new Sonoma who just couldn't figure out how he got completely wiped by a big, smokey diesel pickup... three times

 

[Stefan Kondolay]

Don't now if anyone is interested or not but PE has a program that they are running on my truck that I guaranty will out run any box on the market. I know that I ate a truck with the same mods as me except a TST custom competition box. This box is nothing short of unreal. It's too bad that sheid diesel didn't test that.

 

[Briar Hopper]

Scheid Diesel didn't test the Blue Chip against the TST PM3, I did, on my truck. But the whole thing was instigated by Rob Swartz at Blue Chip, and Dan Scheid stepped in to make everything possible. 4 dyno runs was all I wanted to do that day. Once I get a few other things on the truck ironed out, I'll be calling Edge Products to try their box against what I have now, on the dyno. I didn't give them a chance at Scheid's and regret it. But knowing the high caliber of their products first hand, I'm sure it 'll kick butt into the next county.