It is important that you have first, properly tuned the VE and ignition tables, at least around the top left areas of the maps, that is the idle and cranking areas. You can note which areas of the map the ECU references during cranking by watching the yellow cross hairs in the Base VE Table while cranking.


Without a correctly tuned VE table, you cannot expect start up, warm up or idle to operate correctly - be sure to get the engine arm, tune the VE, then work on the starting procedures fine tuning.


Various control strategies are included in the ECU for the easy starting of the engine, these include control over the priming pulse, cranking fuel, initial after-start enrichment, and further Warmup Enrichment. Although usually considered the more time consuming areas to tune (the engine must be cold from each tuning attempt), once correctly set, the engine will start and warm correctly in any environmental condition.


Startup RPM conditions are defined by the Startup Settings Driver. The engine falling below Min RPM resets the ASE and startup timers. The Cranking Max RPM defines the point that ASE begins.


The default tab (when using a default layout in MEITE) for this area is the ‘Crank_ASE’ tab, as well as the ‘Warmup’ tab, both pictured below: