I'm planning on being supercharged with Kpro in the coming months and I have a few questions about elevation problems when going to a stand alone.

I live in Utah and travel to Seattle at least once a year. Elevation difference is close to 4,000 ft. One of the ski resorts I frequent is at 9,800 ft. Will I be able to travel to these elevations once I go Kpro? Or, am I stuck to the elevation that the tuner tunes at on the dyno?

Obviously I am new to the engine managment side of tuning so any help would be nice. I just don't want to spend close to $10,000.00 and then find out that I can't drive out of the city. For instance, if I go to Park City which is 20 minutes away, is a 3,000 ft. increase in elevation. If I went to Brian Head, UT it would be a 5,500 ft. increase in elevation. I go to both of these places quite a bit through out the year. The stock ecu can do it so I'm just making sure there's a way to do it with Kpro. Please correct me if this way of thinking is wrong.

Thanks.

 

THAT is a good question! The AEM guys in our crew (Florida) that frequent the Dragon have minor issues when they are in the mountains. Now the KPro being in essence a Honda ecu with a different memory type I would think it could handle the altitude change if setup correctly (I THINK – A lower map reading) but I will defer to someone more knowledgeable… Now your performance WILL decrease since your sc psi will decrease due to thinner air.

J

 

It would only be a problem if the tuner didn't tune for the upper and lower load levels that the engine will see at the various altitudes.

 

No problem. The nature of a speed-density system that Honda uses means that air pressure changes are automatically compensated for. In addition the ECU contains an internal barometric air pressure sensor which tweaks some of the minor tables for altitude. Boost will drop a little, but any competent tuner will have no problem mapping for this.

 

Thanks guys that put my mind at ease. Supercharger here I come!

 

This is good news for me too since I plan on going Kpro when I get ITBs. I live around 3000ft and work at almost 0. I know I have a cabable tuner with experience on S2000's with kpro

 

its definitely not a hard thing to tune at all. It comes easy to those who are good at what they do

 

ITB's are very different. u dont use a map sensor, only tps tuning, so yeah, your kinda screwed when you go ITB. hell, even pressure changes at the same elevation will cause you problems.

 

[QUOTE=Elroy]THAT is a good question!

 

well i'll be damned, cuase your the first person to ever say that it can be done. granted, i dont ask many people, just what i read on here and in convos here and there.

where does teh map sensor read from? where does it go? dont u need map sensor + air temp to calc density of air?

soooo, color me surpised.