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RACELOGIC TRACTION CONTROL Racelogic Ltd, 5 Little Balmer Buckingham Industrial Park Buckingham, MK18 1TF Tel : +44 (0)1280 823803 Fax : + 4

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 101.4.5 Grouped Injection Grouped injection is when all the injectors are fired at once. D

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 111.5 ABS Connection 1.5.1 General The easiest method of linking into the ABS sensors is to locate

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 121.5.2 Locating Sensor Wires The wires can be found using a number of methods. • Twisted Pairs and

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 131.5.3 Connecting Traction Control ABS Wires The 4 traction control ABS wires are coloured Red, Blue,

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 141.6 Miscellaneous Connections 1.6.1 Ignition Switched Supply The red wire (Pin 2) with inline fus

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 151.6.3 RPM The Black/White wire (Pin 18) should be connected to a suitable RPM signal. A suitable sign

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 161.7 Fitting the traction control switch The traction control switch will need to be mounted on the c

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 171.8 Calibration and Test Procedure 1.8.1 General Once the Traction Control loom has been connected,

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 18 1.8.3 Wheel Speed Calibration Before the Traction Control system will work the wheel speeds have to

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 191.8.5 Final Test Jack the driven wheels of the car and start the engine. Engage a gear and spin the

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 2CONTENTS 1. FITTING INSTRUCTIONS ...

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 20Q – The car runs cleanly when stationary but misfires when driving. A – Does the car only misfire at

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 211.9 Traction Control Switch/Adjuster The interface with the traction control system is via the rotary

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 221.9.2 Diagnostic Modes The Diagnostic modes can only be used once the adjuster has been connected. T

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 231.10 Launch Control 1.10.1 General Launch Control is a method of controlling the revs at the start

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 24e.g. – To set the wet rev-limit to 4000 RPM. Start the car. Switch to wet settings. Press the la

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 25 1.11 Cars with only 3 wheel speed sensors Some cars have a single sensor for the rear wheel speed t

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 26 3) Connections Connect the front wheel speed sensors to the traction control unit. Now connect the r

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 271.12 8 Cylinder Traction Control The TC8 works in an identical way to all other system but has two ex

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 281.13 Connector Wiring Connector A No Description Wire Colour 1 GND Black 2 VIGN Red 3 POT Green 4

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 29 2. Software 2.1 Installation To install the traction control software, insert the CD into your CD-RO

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 32.6.2 Options menu ...

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 30Note: You can always select restore defaults from the options menu to return the software to the Racelo

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 31 2.5 Main Window The software has a main menu bar with shortcut buttons shown below the menu. This me

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 322.5.2 Options Menu Select COM port Each time you move the cursor to the ‘Select COM port’

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 33 Read data When ‘Read Data’ is selected, the software communicates with the traction control con

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 34 Restore Defaults Selecting ‘Restore defaults’ sets all the available options in the softwa

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 35 About Selecting ‘About’ will open a window showing version number of this software.

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 362.6 Graph Window To view the graph window select ‘View’ then ‘Graph’ in the main window. To return to

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 37 2.6.2 Options menu Real Time Play / Stop As main window Erase Graph This will remove all the d

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 382.6.4 View View Main Window Selecting this will bring the main window in front of the graph win

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 39 To un-zoom you can select ‘view full graph’ from the ‘view menu’, or by holding the left

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 41. FITTING INSTRUCTIONS Thank you for buying Racelogic Traction Control. By following the instructions

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 40 2.7.4 Show / Hide data You can temporarily remove data from the graph by clicking on its title eg ‘F

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 41Maximum difference in wheel speeds Glitch rejection allows unfeasible differences in wheel speeds to be

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 42Time before turning is true The period of time the wheel speeds must exceed the turning threshold befor

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 43e.g. (using above Sequence 1) Injector 1 Injector 2 Injector 3 Injector 4 Miss Fire

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 44The reason that most of the cut tables consist entirely of , is because their severity is dictated by

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 45With this method the severity of the misfire is directly associated with the data in the cut table. T

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 46i.e. if ‘Delay slip override’ is set to 5% and ‘Start delay’ is set to 2 seconds, 5% will be added to

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 473.3 Slip Control The severity of the misfires can be changed by modifying any of

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 48To reduce power the traction control uses four levels of progressively intrusive cut. These are sequenc

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 49Driven / Reference Wheel Diameter The wheel diameters must be entered in millimeters, and must be the

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 5 Standard TC box. 1.3 Recommended Fitting Tools • Screw Driver - Cross Head • Screw Driver - Fl

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 50Pulses per revolution The number of reference pulses per revolution must be entered for the reference a

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 51 3.5 Rev limits Moving rev limiter Soft cut / Hard cut Similar to the rev limi

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 52 3.6 Data Logging (Only for units with battery backup memory) The Data Logging

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 53 Sample Rate (Hz) Total log time 244 1 Minute 29 Seconds 122 2 Minute 58 Seconds 81 4 Minute 28

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 54If ‘Real time’ has been started, the values from the traction unit will be displayed on this screen. Th

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 554. FINE TUNING This section gives a few pointers to common problems associated with the traction contr

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 56Q - The traction control reduces the power enough on corners but in a straight line the car still whee

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 575. SELF-FIT SENSORS 5.1 Sensor 5.2 Pickup Methods The exact method used to locate and trigger t

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 58Hole detection - The reference holes have to be bigger than the head of the sensor, bigger ones are pr

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 59 5.4 Sensor Gapping The sensor will work up to a range of 2mm. Try to gap the sensor to 1.5mm away f

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 6 Diagram 1 Traction Control SchematicENGINE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM InjectorOn/Of

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 605.7 Connecting Sensors Once the sensors have been fitted each of the four wires must be run to the s

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 615.9 Testing Once all the sensors have been mounted and connected, the traction control can be powere

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 62When the sensors are working correctly, they should look like the screenshot below, with all of the whe

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 63 5.10 Common Sensor Problems and Solutions Q – The LED on the sensor will not flash. A- Check that

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 646. CLUTCH SWITCH The clutch switch allows the driver to make gear changes without having to back off t

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 656.2 Setting the Clutch Switch REV Limits These rev limits are similar to the rev limits used for the

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 667. MSD Interface Racelogic multiple spark discharge (MSD) traction control works with the crank signal

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 678. Spark cut 8.1 General The spark cut traction control unit, works by monitoring the signal used by

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 71.4 Injector Cut 1.4.1 General Injector cut works by taking the signal supplied to each fuel injecto

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 8 Having located the signal wires, enter the colour codings for the fuel injection system in the table be

RACELOGIC Traction Control Manual V3.0 Page 91.4.4 Connectors We highly recommend using the 8 way multilok connectors when interfacing the tractio