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Old 06-19-2017, 05:13 PM
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Idle 'Surge' when tuned

Hey everyone, got a little bit of an oddball I need some more help understanding. Recently I have noticed that when on a tune other than stock I am getting a surge at idle - my RPMs drop to around 621-630 then shoot back up to 660-675. On my stock tune my RPMs stay around 640-667 and don't cause the surge (felt as a shimmy so to speak).

I emailed DP about it to see if there was a way to help it out tuning-wise. Is there anything else that causes a similar symptom? I attribute it to tuning due to it only happening when running anything but stock but could be wrong.

Thanks in advance!
 
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It's the tuning. One map specifically.
 
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Originally Posted by cleatus12r
It's the tuning. One map specifically.
Appreciate the confirmation Cleatus! If I don't get a definitive answer from Jody on if he has an update to fix it, I'll look to see if I can find someone else that does 256k tuning that can help out (If I trusted myself not to blow the truck up, I'd try and cure it myself - gonna leave that to the professionals for now).

This may give me the perfect time to switch to the Hydra, though. Then I'd at least have access to more tuners/possibilities.
 
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