2.8L Canyon Test Toy
- Thread starter meshanic
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Yep 1000% the Colorado & canyon are built to tow little 500 lb fishing boats or hual your ski gear lol. And get good mpgs
About this bad.
http://www.kijiji.ca/v-cars-trucks/edmonton/2016-chevrolet-colorado-diesel-4wd-lt/1145518527
There are 2 others around 50k and that's it in Alberta according to kijiji.
Cognito makes a 4" lift and beefy suspension for them already
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So I found some time to tow with this truck. The trailer was roughly 4K lbs & I was on the stock tune. It has plenty of torque at part throttle in the low rpm range but if you wanted to get up to highway speed fast it would need to be tuned. I wrote a tow tune for it that is very mild but really helped it get up to cruising speeds effortlessly. Made another revision that helped it out a bit more. I then had my wife drive it while I data logged it & got her opinion on it. Her daily is a Pontiac G8 Gt so she's used to throttle response & high rpm hp, both areas where these trucks are lacking stock. She asked why does it wait so long before it goes? Well the answer is low boost fueling & emissions crap don't work well together. I worked on that a bit & had a tune that worked well enough without creating any soot accumulation codes with some city & highway driving. I wanted a little more response & added a bit more fuel down low. That felt great but after a morning of running around town enjoying that it kindly asked me to continue driving while it cleaned the exhaust. I did that but soon got a reduced engine power message.
Looks like it's time to move on to the fun stuff
Looks like it's time to move on to the fun stuff
Went back to a stock delete tune just to see what that was like. It throws a small puff & hazes a bit stock so I'm not surprised it gave me trouble when I added power down low. I installed an Edge Insight with EGT probe & drive & boost pressure sensors. Now to see how it responds to more fuel & boost.
Yeah I'm pretty excited about it for sure! I put a larger tune in & did a smokey burn out in the shop haha! It's nice to let it breathe
Video please...
I didn't make a video but I will post one soon. I spent a little more time getting it to be happy with the deletes & gutted stock exhaust. Now it runs great! It's like a whole new truck... again
Got a tune dialed in that I really like for daily driving. Quick throttle response & smooth progressive power. No lights on the dash. It's completely happy in it's current state. I increased transmission line pressure a bit and now the shifts are very quick. A had a lot of running around to do yesterday so I fueled up & reset the trip odometer to check mpg. At 211 miles I topped it off with 8.0 gallons. 26.3 mpg hand calculated.
Mostly highway driving at 75-80 mph
Mostly highway driving at 75-80 mph
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I assume you had to do some work outside of EFILive to get the deletes working properly?
Or did you start with a deleted base file from someone else?
Or did you start with a deleted base file from someone else?