Friday, June 14, 2013

Lugosi Autosport always appreciates feedback from our users.

Working with Autronic ECUs & Autotune

Some Autronics ECUs Now Support 5V Inputs!

Lugosi Autosport always appreciates feedback from our users. Here's what one of our happy users, who has an LA1 and older 2A0 unit, says about a new Autronic ECU he recently purchased:



  • I've been a long time very satisfied user of your products. The PnP (Autronic ECU) version (which is based on their SMC ecu's) also is capable of 0-5V input. So, in this case, no need for the resistor tricks.

  • Thanks Bart O. (from Santee) for that info.
    Also, look here for the Tech Edge utility to change the wideband output: wbUTIL. It may be necessary if you have an ECU that covers the voltage range 0 to 5 Volts for other than our default setting of AFR = 9 to 19 (for stoich = 14.7). Also note that out newer version 3 controllers have a maximum WBlin of up to 8.192 Volts.

    Autronic Meter - Claims by a Lugosi

    Many people ask us if our controllers work with Autronic ECUs, and in particular if the Autotune function can be made to work. The simple answer is yes (see below) but certain things should be done to maximise accuracy.
    But first, lets dispell some myths that seem to have accumulated. There are two Autronic Lambda meters, and they are described on the Lugosi Website In the following extracts, we have added the blue italics.
    • A Model: Uses a Bosch four wire broad band sensor (LSM-11) and has a air fuel ratio range of 9.0:1 to 36.0:1. Update speed of readings is 0.5 of a second.
    • B Model: Will use the Bosch sensor or a (NTK) UEGO 6 wire high speed sensor (5 wire sensor + calibration resistor wire) The high speed sensor will update every 0.10 of a second.
    They also claim, of the UEGO sensor, that "it is also more accurate than the Bosch sensor". The LSM-11 is not a wideband sensor, but a narrowband (NB) sensor with tighter tolerances than a normal NB sensor. Of course the NTK UEGO will be more accurate. The Bosch LSU 5-wire (pump cell) sensor will also be more accurate than the Bosch LSM-11.
    Perhaps Autronic's Bosch 4-wire and NTK UEGO sensor comparison is why people familiar with Autronic think the Bosch LSU is less accurate than the NTK UEGO. They are simply confusing the Bosch LSM-11 with the Bosch LSU sensors. The fact is, comparing 5-wire sensors, the Bosch LSU is as good or better than the NTK UEGO. As the Bosch LSU is usually considerably cheaper than the NTK UEGO, the comparison is even more favourable towards the Bosch LSU.
    Because of the price difference - most people, it seems, buy the expensive Autronic Lambda meter but then use the narrowband LSM-11 sensor. This is total craziness! An expensive meter and an under performing 4-wire narrowband sensor.

    Issues in Using the 1 Volt Autronic Input

    OK, you have a Tech Edge wideband controller with a differential 0-5 Volt output(*1). How best to connect it to your Autronic ECU to use their Autotune function? There are some issues to address, and we have solutions too:
    • Autronic ECUs use a 0 to 1 volt input signal. Tech Edge controllers provide a 0 to 5 Volt signal. Although you can re-program the controller output to 0-1 Volt, it's better to divide 0-5 Volts down to 0-1 Volts. This improves the dynamic range by a factor of 5 and gives more precise, smaller steps.
    • The Autronic default 10 to 30 AFR range (assuming AFR(stoich) = 14.7) means just a quarter of this range, from AFR = 10 to 15, is in the effective tuning range. If we limit the AFR from 10 to 20, half the default, this gives us twice the dynamic range. This and the previous item gives us 10 times the dynamic range of a simplistic approach. The output setup is shown in the image at right - note the lower line sloping upwards; the leftmost darker section is between 0 and 0.5 Volts, but you can see that over the 10 to 30 AFR range the output (grey line) would go between 0 and 1 Volt.
    • Electrical Noise is a fact of life in automotive applications. Lambda sensor controllers precisely heat the sensor to high temperature using large currents switched electronically. This can introduce noise in the ground return of the controller itself. Most Tech Edge controllers have a WBlin+/- output (we call it a differential output) feature that's designed to allow for small varying differences in ground voltages between the controller and the ECU. Enabling this feature may require changing/removing a jumper inside the case of your controller and then ensuring you connect both the WBlin+ and the WBlin- connections to the ECU.

    0→5 Volt & 10→20 AFR ⇒ 10:1 Resistive Divider

    The best way to connect your Tech Edge unit to an Autronic ECU is with a 10:1 resistive divider. We suggest you use 1% resistors of value 2k and 18k wired as shown at right.
    Note that there are 4 connection points:
    1. specially programmed 0-5 Volts WBlin+ output from the Tech Edge wideband controller.
    2. Ground reference WBlin- input to counteract ground noise and voltage offsets.
    3. Divided Aut-in input to Autronic ECU - connect to 1 Volt oxygen sensor input.
    4. The Autronic ground point Aut-Gnd - either the oxygen sensor input GND point or the ECU's analogue GND.
    As well as the connection points two other things must be done to the Tech Edge controller
    • Reprogram the WBlin output to go from and AFR of 10 to 20. note: range is not from 10 to 30.. The default range for Tech Edge units is from 9 to 19, so forgetting to reprogram means the voltage will be close, but wrong everywhere!
    • Remove the WBlin-GND jumper - refer to the documentation for your controller, and to here for an explanation of why you must do this.

    Buy the pre-made 5 Volt to 1 Volt Adaptor

    Although it's easy to make your own, we offer this pre-made adapter. It has over 30cm (12") of cwire between the wideband unit and the Autronic unit. There are four connection points just like the schematic shown above, and the image at right, the two BLACK wires are GND, the GREEN wire comes from the 0-5 Volt wideband output, and the ORANGE wire goes to the Autronic 1 Volt input. The shipped adapter comes covered in heat-shrink, so nothing shorts out.



    lugosi can provide this custom harness for you for a small fee of 50 dollars *mostlylabor..if you cannot follow the diagram just call us at 858.560.5258 we'll walk you through it or lugosi autosport warning you could burn out your ECU if not done correctly we do not and cannot warranty our harrnesses unless we do the ENTIRE installation  if done wrong, our PERFECT harnesses could still cause damange..Lugosi Autosport warning do not attempt to install autotune or autronic unless you know what the heck you are doing!!!

    Wednesday, May 29, 2013

    Yelp Social Failure of the Century!!! Mick, turky, Chink, slope, Gook, Beaner, Cracker, Yelp, Bullshit, Context, User, innocent words.

    Context people Context, yelp is probably the biggest Garbage Program in the history of Misery.....
    When Cox, SDGE, Yelp, BBB, all have ONE to 3 Stars, it's absolute PROOF that Yelp is
    used ONLY by Miserable people with an ax to grind or their minion friends willing to lend a hand
    in their buddies  cause......

    When a company *such as ours* has been around for 23 years, and for 22 years has ZERO bad reviews
    and then we fire an employee *gus* who previously gave us 5 stars *before we fired him* and reduced us to 2 after we fired him, well...what does this say for Yelps "algorithythmes" ..Garbage..

    When E X partners place a bad review which sounds more like an infomercial for their new company vs
    a legitimate review for ours....including descriptions of our shop from TWO years ago... wow....

    when a lady who wants FREE brakes after ONE year of having purchased ONLY pads, and when we do not agree to give her free brakes including rotors, pads, labor, sensors....wow...great progamming guys...

    When another lady wants a free bumper after she ordes the wrong one for her car *she drives an 01, and orders a 2010*, car not present when she ordered...and we refuse to give her free bumper....again...WOW...Right on Yelp..Nice....

    when a boy , who's never stepped foot in our shop Says "This shop blows" "nobody who works thee is a car enthusiast" gets a top spot in our reviews....double wow..especially since again he's never been here, and we have owned over 19 alfa's in 24 years, rebuild, raced, preped, modified, since before his miserable mother gave birth to him....yet yelp allows his post to stand...i say fuck yelp....

    when a complete "small, short, inferior man" posts a complete lie about how we extorted him out of 100 dollrs to tell tell him whee his car is...when we simply charged him the 100 dollars we spent towing his car
    to our paint shop, and than since our paint shop is near the border in Otay mesa..and he writes "they abandoned my car at the mexican borded"...what a piece of Garbage of a person to Lie so blatantly...

    When 55 POSITIVe Reviews get Buried or Filtered and the average consumer has to jump through firehoops to read such "hidden" reviews, this is just amazing to us...especially when if we pay yelp 400 dollars they will UN Filter Said Reviews....and help us sort out the bad ones....I say Karma's a bitch and if
    you are the type of consumer that is completely void of any good judgement...WE frankly prefer you NOT
    do business with us.. But if you can make your own decisions and judgments and speak with us and just KNOW we're cool...than...than welcome...WE WILL Take Goood Care of you....

    Thanks..

    Saturday, April 27, 2013

    Deep Thought With Mike "Jack" Handy Lugosi AutoSport.. to borrow from jack and all his wisdom i believe the international peace symbol should be changed from a white dove to a down pilow...
    You still get all the feathers but without that dangerous beak.

    Americans are slowly losing their basic abilty to...well......TO THINK, more specifically "think" for "themselves"...

    Just as we see in the auto world, complete homonogization  of new car production from the world market of "parts", manufactures are making less and less of their parts..sure they design a body, stamp out the chassis and body.. but engines, transmissions, and virtually all ancillary parts are out sourced..

    One extreme example and sad on a personal level is Alfa Romeo completely  selling out along with SAAB and Lancia Italy..Lugosi Autosport has not worked on many SAABs or Lancia, to do our own Verification however it's common knowledge that all three sell outs used the same chassis, procured again on the world market...not sure how this works,,engineering input from all companys?  given to a 4th firm in the chassis design busines?..bottom line is that (and i can't blame tthem) when a car company can't afford it's own unique, proprietary chassis but to save it's own fiscal neck, sells out and shares DNA with other makes and not one, but two..folks we're talking a car Threesome here..I don't know how to spell manajatwa? hehe..indeed. (i just hope alfa got to be the turkey baster and not the turkey...if you know what i mean..lol.

    Ok the remainder of this essay will be about how like the auto industry the human industry through media, including the good ole web, is becoming "not unique"....same mono culture, blah  opinions  regergitated from tv, online forums, review sites etc.... specifically we're referring to review sites...more to come

    Friday, April 5, 2013

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    lugosi.Autosport..now.has...20k..in..stok..at..all.times..most..items..are..always..good..in..stok
    and..if..it's.not..in.stok..in.SD..it's.most.likely..in.stok..in..the..l.a..warehouse...

    if.the.item.is..not..in..stok..in.either.warehouse..it's.usually..no.more..than..one.or.two.days.for..said
    parts..to.be.made.ready.in.san.diego..

    please..frequent.lugosi.when.looking.for.parts.for.your..ride..lugosi..is.at.8861.balboa..suite.b.san.diego.92123.

    thank.you.

    Friday, March 15, 2013

    LUGOSI AUTOSPORT OFFICIAL RACE DIV. LAUNCH.

    FOR IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE:: LUGOSI AUTOSPORT LAUNCHES RACE AND TUNING DIVISION:: AUTOMETRICKA  RACECELL
    LUGOSI AUTOSPORT OFFICIAL RACE DIV. LAUNCH, WE ARE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF OUR COMPANY'S RACING STABLE, AUTOMETRICKA COMP. DIVISION WILL BE ENGAGING IN ALL ASPECTS OF COMPETITION AUTOSPORT, FROM DRIVING TO ENGINE BUILDING, BLUEPRINTING, REPAIRING AND UPGRADING AS WELL AS AN IN HOUSE PILOT SCHOOL, CLUB AND RACE STABLE, "SPEED CELL" OR  AUTOMETRICKA SPEEDCELL, RACE CELL, MOTOR CELL, WE'RE STILL PLAYING AROUND WITH THE OFFICIAL NAME OF OUR ACTUAL RACE CELL.. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

    Wednesday, March 6, 2013

    Amazingly BAD BAD BAD people can post anything they wish

    Its amazing how anybody with a pulse and an ax to grind can literally write ANYTHING they wish regardless of the consequences to the business, luckily we know thousands of clients who know and support us and or don't believe everything they read, Take for example three people MARK VALADE, BenJamin, and JESSE, IN Short ORDER these guys wanted paint for their vehicles,

    Mark calls and lies and asks, "can i take advantage of the 750 flat rate paint job which includes dings and dents, i know what it's like to not have a whole lot of money for a project so now that we're in a strong position to help San Diegans out we don't mind earning our money the old fashioned way, Earning it,,,

    My truck is fine , no major damage, just want you to remove the stuff to make it look good and take your time, it's a weekend desert truck and I only take it out in the summer........... exactly ONE week later he calls and say's, I read some reviews and i'd lke to know if my truck will be ready SAT, just barely 4 or 5 working days so far,,,,we said "no" you told us to take our time and the truck was fine and it's' far from fine it's got a huge compound crunch in the front and that's going to cost us extra with our shop plus we now lost our turn because you said take your time, so please bare with us,,,,,,,,,,,,,

    He just at this point lost all sense of decency, just calling all day, being a real pain in the ass, finally at the end of week 3, he calls and says, i've reported my truck stolen, and you need to tell me where it is right now, i was in complete shock that he preferred to file a false police report to punish us for "taking too long" when it was his idea plus a crashed corner on his truck. So I called him and said hey, what is going on, why would you do such a thing, it's just wrong, he replied "i don't care i want my car back and you tell me where it's at and i'll leave you alone and you'll nevr hear of me again, i thought it was a great idea, but i had spent 100 bucks on towing this truck down to my painters shop, so i said, OK ill tell you where the car is and I'll return your deposit gladly provided you pay me for the Tow bill which i paid for, He agreed, came over to the shop we gave him 300 dollars and kept 100 for towing he was ok with it, shook our hand, signed an agreement stating that we were off the hook and he held no resentment or prejudice and he signed, collected his 300 dollars and life is good.....

    So here's the kicker, this bastard with NO WORD of HONOR, Goes down to my painter, strikes a new deal with him , essentially cutting me out of the deal, still left his car there for another week or two, and than he has the nerve to go to rip off report and states that we lied to him for 30 days, simply not true. He lied to us about taking our time, and that his truck was dent and crash free, than he writes that we extorted 100 bucks from him just to tell him where his truck was, when all we wanted was to recoup our towing money, it's not our truck we do not have any obligation to pay for other peoples towing bills, finally he stated that we left his car abandoned at the mexican border, folks my painter, and the shop he ended up using happens to be in otay mesa, between CROWERCAMS and AM PM mini Market, but when he describes it, it's oh so dirty mexico, near the mexicans, Marc you are a little harry man, You have NO word, NO honor and where I come from pal *by the border* we play smear the queer with people like you,,,punk.












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