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So I decided to make a spot check on my timing belt Tuesday. While I was pulling the cover off I disconnected the cam position sensor clip. The weather suddenly changed and to avoid the coming apocalypse I threw everything together and plum forgot to put the sensor clip in.
I started it up and drove to Kung-Fu with no problems of CEL. After class I get in and start it up. It barely caught and started after some lugging (par for the course at the present time). I then get a CEL, I ignore it because I figured that the ECU registered a bunch of misfires during the startup.
So 2 days later I hook up the 'ol laptop because I was getting sick of the CEL. Find out that it's the cam sensor, smack head and put it back on.
So during the 2 days I didn't really notice any diffeence. I had 2 times where it seemed really laggy and then when the power came on it bucked hard. I dialed my W/M back thinking that was the issue, and it may have been because it never happened again.
Sooo what the hell does a cam sensor on an AEB (no VVT) do for a living?
Based on what I saw I think that it has more of an influence on part throttle timing advance. Once I hooked it back up, part throttle seemed to have more snap. However WOT didn't change much. This would be consistent with the AEB's open loop operation during WOT conditions. The closed loop part throttle operation seems more likely to include cam sensor data.
I started it up and drove to Kung-Fu with no problems of CEL. After class I get in and start it up. It barely caught and started after some lugging (par for the course at the present time). I then get a CEL, I ignore it because I figured that the ECU registered a bunch of misfires during the startup.
So 2 days later I hook up the 'ol laptop because I was getting sick of the CEL. Find out that it's the cam sensor, smack head and put it back on.
So during the 2 days I didn't really notice any diffeence. I had 2 times where it seemed really laggy and then when the power came on it bucked hard. I dialed my W/M back thinking that was the issue, and it may have been because it never happened again.
Sooo what the hell does a cam sensor on an AEB (no VVT) do for a living?
Based on what I saw I think that it has more of an influence on part throttle timing advance. Once I hooked it back up, part throttle seemed to have more snap. However WOT didn't change much. This would be consistent with the AEB's open loop operation during WOT conditions. The closed loop part throttle operation seems more likely to include cam sensor data.
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