Was doing some research on the AMS-500 but there was one thing I couldn't find.

When setting up boost, you choose what boost you want, and the system automatically chooses what duty cycle to send to the solenoids?

You don't have to set up the AMS-500 by using inputting duty cycle values, like the AEM EMS ?

Also what would you say is better/prefer:

NLR AMS-500 boost control or AEM EMS built in boost control?

Thanks

 

Is it not like the ams-1000 where you just put in the amount of pressure that needs to be applied to the top of the gate? rather than the amount of boost you want to run

 

Yes it works just like the ams-1000 in terms of how it regulates the boost. You pick how much pressure you want on top of the gate and it does the rest for you.


If your drag racing the car I would use an ams-1000.

 

Thanks for the input...........Its more off a street/strip car I think the AMS-500 would do the job.

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On a side note, is it possible to do gear based boost with the AMS-1000 on a Honda?

 

I'm pretty sure you can, but its in a weird way. Joe will have to give input on that one; i'm still not entirely sure on how to set it up like that, but i would definitely like to know how as well!

 

Only thing I could come up with is, knowing what voltage you get at the end of each gear using the VSS as the input, and if on the ams-1000 you could define what voltage for each gear

1st - 0v to 1v
2nd - 1.01v to 2v
3rd - 2.01v to 3v
4th - 3.01v to 4v
5th- 4.01v to 5v

Something like that I was thinking.

 

You can use outputs from the ecu to control when it kicks in different stages of boost.

 

we have been using the NLR controllers (1000) time based for quite some time now, and i dont think it would benefit by using an ecu output to define when each stage activated.


TO the OP. if you are thinking of going with the NLR boost controller, i strongly suggest going with the 1000 over the 500. its so much more configurable.

 

Exactly what DaveF said, time based works just fine, no reason to do it gear based. If you spin bad or miss a gear, the run is junk anyways for the most part...try again. You should be able to set it up pretty good by looking at a data log and seeing how long you are in each gear..etc.

 

I was more specifically talking about the 500.

 

Time based is great for a drag strip only car, but worthless for a street car. If it's going to be street driven, you want something with gear recognition.