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@redursidae welcome to the world of se7ens where Alpha-N is the norm. :) Even the MBE in new Caterhams employs this older strategy with time-based injector control. It's certainly not as good as a VE-based PID control, but it's certainly possible to achieve good behavior with these less sophisticated ECUs. Over the last 22 years, I've run Emerald and MBE on Duratecs with ITBs and have never had running issues related to the mapping strategy.

 

Your advice is spot on when it's time to replace the Pectel, but I suspect @Vovchandr's issues run far beyond his map or mapping strategy. Fuel milage doesn't plummet by 40% unless there is some kind of failure. He needs to address that first. I suppose it's possible that the Pectel has a driver failure that is intermittently holding open an injector, but other than that, I'd start by looking at all sensors that can trim the injection map, run a compression and leak down, then check injector flow to see if one or more is bad. If the AFR numbers provided above are accurate, I'd be very concerned about bore wash. Given all the issues with this particular engine over the years, I suspect there are multiple things going on. Occam's razor won't apply.

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