Newb here- help with scantool apps.

[8nutz8]

I just put in enough 85  for the 15 mile drive home to test the KR gauge with. It's already ran out and I put 5.5 gallons of 87 octane in it today- didn't want to run s*** gas anymore than I had to. after putting in the 87 and driving to work today I saw values bouncing around at positive .5-1.5 and the max carrot at 2 degrees. . so the gauge does seem to be working!! now I'll run the 87 out of it and return to 91 and or E blends.
don't currently have the OAR set up. had it for a day or so but didn't know how to interpret the values.

now I need to figure out how to lower the trans temps. 210+ cruising on a 85 degree day

Amsoil fluid for the tranny and/or add PP cooler.

amsoil will be put in at the first scheduled tranny service, hopefully ford will flush and fill with something other than motorcraft as its still under warranty. PP cooler or other aux cooler will be the eventual fix but for now I'm gonna change to colder coolant t-stat and trans bi-pass T-stat and in thinking that will keep it cool enough for a while.

what exactly do the OAR units signify? I know it's a ratio but not sure what they quantify to or how to read into the values

thanks for the prompt replies FoMoCo!

 

[FoMoCoSHO]

I just put in enough 85  for the 15 mile drive home to test the KR gauge with. It's already ran out and I put 5.5 gallons of 87 octane in it today- didn't want to run s*** gas anymore than I had to. after putting in the 87 and driving to work today I saw values bouncing around at positive .5-1.5 and the max carrot at 2 degrees. . so the gauge does seem to be working!! now I'll run the 87 out of it and return to 91 and or E blends.
don't currently have the OAR set up. had it for a day or so but didn't know how to interpret the values.

now I need to figure out how to lower the trans temps. 210+ cruising on a 85 degree day

Amsoil fluid for the tranny and/or add PP cooler.

amsoil will be put in at the first scheduled tranny service, hopefully ford will flush and fill with something other than motorcraft as its still under warranty. PP cooler or other aux cooler will be the eventual fix but for now I'm gonna change to colder coolant t-stat and trans bi-pass T-stat and in thinking that will keep it cool enough for a while.

what exactly do the OAR units signify? I know it's a ratio but not sure what they quantify to or how to read into the values

thanks for the prompt replies FoMoCo!

https://cobbtuning.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/204049644-Octane-Adjust-Ratio-OAR-

http://stratifiedauto.com/blog/understanding-knock-and-ignition-corrections-in-your-high-performance-ecoboost-engine/

 

[8nutz8]

^ good reading. that makes sense.

OAR is still reading -1 but I've only put about 35 miles on the car with the lower octane so I'm sure it's still learning

 

[Ramairetransam]

i use ultra guage blue and im not happy with it . I got it for my 12 passat tdi and it worked for that but im not happy with it for the mks .