Awesome, thanks CCS86, adjusting the WOT start/end is now getting me the results I expect with the throttle closing.
blackbolt22, take a look at he below log too. I had the throttle angle channels in my previous logs but didn't realize I didn't get them into the screenshot. So these below will have them.
I've attached the log below. This run was with the WOT DD fields being the artificially low values as before. And the indicated torque does still appear to be based off what is in the DD table. I am a little surprised that even at 63 degrees the Load is still well over 100 though. But that may be because of the large CJ mono throttle body.
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Below you can see the log I immediately did afterwards where I loaded back the normal DD values. Again notice the indicated being 555 vs 366 in the artificial low DD log above. Also notice the ambient not being correct on this run though. Between logs the only thing I did was shut off the car after log 1, load the second tune and immediately start the second log. So that ambient in the second run I think is being logged incorrectly for whatever reason and I believe plays no part in these logs.
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What I feel like is happening here is that the ECU really has no clue what the actual torque the engine is producing. It feels like to me that the DD is supposed to be somewhat realistic values for wheel torque, and then the ECU uses that as a baseline to start estimating what torque the car is producing (friction losses, spark, load, temperature, etc). It makes me wonder if I hypothetically were to scale all the torque tables to let's say 200 as my max DD torque at WOT. That I would see the ECU estimating indicated torque as somewhere in the 300's. And if I were to scale the torque tables to match the corresponding load values for those torque values (along with every other torque limiter, range, etc), again hypothetically everything should work identically to how the car performs today.
So again, it feels like that the DD table *is* the estimated wheel torque the car in reality should be matching. And if the DD is wrong and the car is producing drastically different torque values that's what makes tuning the rest of the torque values tricky. Because you won't be getting an accurate indicated torque. You're getting a false value. Which this may be why tuners work around it by preventing DD from coming into play at WOT. But if you were to put the car on a dyno and find the real accurate wheel torque values, and you plugged them back into DD, you'd then have a working torque model. I could be completely off on all of this of course
but I can't explain why else I can easily spoof such drastically different indicated torque values using the DD table.