Lean WOT condition: WOT compensation question
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2026 1:43 pm
for context the car is an 03 civic. Engine is a turbo d17a2 with forged bottom end 8.8:1 compression, and a crower stage 2 turbo cam. Its running on a PND ECU with Kpro v4. The car is new to me and I have some concerns about the tune.
At WOT in third gear it hits max boost which is 20psi. The AFR was around 12.6-12.8 and was jumping around a bit sometimes even jumping over 13. To my knowledge this is getting into the dangerously lean territory. Fuel status shows it's running in open loop during WOT, however in closed loop advanced, the "WOT compensation fixed at lambda 0.85 (12.5:1)" box is checked off. Will this be overriding the main fuel table even though it's running in open loop? In the log it shows that both long and short term fuel trims are 0 during the pull, would adjustments made by the WOT compensation show up under these trim values? The main problem is that in the calibration, the no WOT compensation option is greyed out so I can't even turn this setting off if I wanted to.
Attached is my data log for a 2nd-3rd gear pull as well as the calibration I pulled from the ecu. Any advice regarding the above questions or just generally how the log looks in terms of safety or optimal tuning would be greatly appreciated.
At WOT in third gear it hits max boost which is 20psi. The AFR was around 12.6-12.8 and was jumping around a bit sometimes even jumping over 13. To my knowledge this is getting into the dangerously lean territory. Fuel status shows it's running in open loop during WOT, however in closed loop advanced, the "WOT compensation fixed at lambda 0.85 (12.5:1)" box is checked off. Will this be overriding the main fuel table even though it's running in open loop? In the log it shows that both long and short term fuel trims are 0 during the pull, would adjustments made by the WOT compensation show up under these trim values? The main problem is that in the calibration, the no WOT compensation option is greyed out so I can't even turn this setting off if I wanted to.
Attached is my data log for a 2nd-3rd gear pull as well as the calibration I pulled from the ecu. Any advice regarding the above questions or just generally how the log looks in terms of safety or optimal tuning would be greatly appreciated.