Only 2,000,000 miles to go..

Well, after discussing some issues with a co-tuner Tordne around various things like VE variations around Intake Air Temperatures (IAT) etc, I think he felt pained by my slow progress. So a short drive later on a baseline tune of his, he sent me a new baseline for my setup. Interestingly enough my VE table was 10% higher than his up to around 3600RPM. This may be due to a number of things, my LS1 intake, IAT being aroudn 10deg C here (his was 40) and my 1.8 rockers. I think its mainly the rockers and LS1, apparently the LS1 intake actually flows better than the LS6 at the lower end.
Here was my VE beforehand.

The sunken bit is where its dialed in ok, the rest was due to the intial "15% scale" recommended by efilive for autotuning. Tordne made a good point that sharp variances are averaged by the PCM so can cause some erratic results. His tables are very nice and smooth. This is reflected in the tune while driving. In a previous tune I did hammer the table flat with the smooth function, but hadnt got around to it on the new one yet. So thanks to Tordne, I now have a nice smooth VE table as a base. Ive got 2 long drives ahead of me, hopefully I can get some good results from them. It looks like Ill need to use table A00014 in the custom OS to adjust for IAT over the seasons. Anyway here is Tordne's work of art. Can you tell any difference?

So yes, summary for today is that smoothness is good. Maybe Ill show you the spark table next. Ill save that for my next update.