Anyway you can weasel the state into making you a wholesale distributor? Vedka?? Definitely European.
Okay, since booze and I have been estranged for over a decade, I guess that about here I should return my attention to the heading on the forum.
Actually, this all got done on Thursday and tested yesterday. A number of you are aware that I run a FI TECH Fuel Injection system on my non G-Body, G-Body. This year has turned out to be a case study in test and tune for the street.. Thursday was the latest episode in that department as I have been fiddling with the settings that I had previously loaded into the ECU to get a better cold start idle, crisper response at the pedal, and the IAC and dFCO to respond more quickly and precisely.
For anyone who is wondering why, I refer them to a thread posted elsewhere in which the writer complained that he had gone for a brief drive to a cars and coffee get together, and although the car had run great during the trip out, when he went to go home it started to barf and snivel at him and he had to go under the hood to tweak the carb to get it to run clean again. All that happened in the interim was that the temperature had gone down and, maybe, the humidity had gone up. Oh, the miseries and sorrows of owning a Holley. Facing that steady diet of that kind of issue for as many as ten years, I had had enough and went FI.
So yesterday was the test day for the latest set of tweaks. What I love about my FI is that it is totally indifferent to cold and rain and high/low humidity. Turn the key to run, let the pump do its thing and twist the key. No hammering on the acc pedal, no trying to find today's "sweet spot" for the choke, no barfing and farting and idle chasing during warm up, no having to keep you foot in the throttle or the mill will die. NADA.
Most of my driving is what I term commuter length; that is, short distances, stop and go, idling at traffic lights, being on the lookout for the vehicular vermin that seem to think they have a license to commit havoc instead of operate a car/truck/?
Ran great. This time I had gone back to the idle screw and discovered that it had been screwed out too far the last time while seeking to get the idle rpm down. So this time it got turned back in just enough to take that wee bit of slack out of the throttle lever that i could feel at the pedal and see when I worked the lever by hand. Doing this did not gratly affect the tip in, it remained light as a feather; maybe even slightly lighter and definitely faster.
So I am driving it as it is for now. I still may go back to the ECU and tweak the priming percentage and the below 20 inputs just a little more and visit the idle cut off to see if I get just a little quicker return to idle for when I park and turn it off. Yeah, it is getting late in the local season for all this but in one sense I am paying it forward because doing it now means I don't have to futz around with it all in the spring.
Nick
Okay, since booze and I have been estranged for over a decade, I guess that about here I should return my attention to the heading on the forum.
Actually, this all got done on Thursday and tested yesterday. A number of you are aware that I run a FI TECH Fuel Injection system on my non G-Body, G-Body. This year has turned out to be a case study in test and tune for the street.. Thursday was the latest episode in that department as I have been fiddling with the settings that I had previously loaded into the ECU to get a better cold start idle, crisper response at the pedal, and the IAC and dFCO to respond more quickly and precisely.
For anyone who is wondering why, I refer them to a thread posted elsewhere in which the writer complained that he had gone for a brief drive to a cars and coffee get together, and although the car had run great during the trip out, when he went to go home it started to barf and snivel at him and he had to go under the hood to tweak the carb to get it to run clean again. All that happened in the interim was that the temperature had gone down and, maybe, the humidity had gone up. Oh, the miseries and sorrows of owning a Holley. Facing that steady diet of that kind of issue for as many as ten years, I had had enough and went FI.
So yesterday was the test day for the latest set of tweaks. What I love about my FI is that it is totally indifferent to cold and rain and high/low humidity. Turn the key to run, let the pump do its thing and twist the key. No hammering on the acc pedal, no trying to find today's "sweet spot" for the choke, no barfing and farting and idle chasing during warm up, no having to keep you foot in the throttle or the mill will die. NADA.
Most of my driving is what I term commuter length; that is, short distances, stop and go, idling at traffic lights, being on the lookout for the vehicular vermin that seem to think they have a license to commit havoc instead of operate a car/truck/?
Ran great. This time I had gone back to the idle screw and discovered that it had been screwed out too far the last time while seeking to get the idle rpm down. So this time it got turned back in just enough to take that wee bit of slack out of the throttle lever that i could feel at the pedal and see when I worked the lever by hand. Doing this did not gratly affect the tip in, it remained light as a feather; maybe even slightly lighter and definitely faster.
So I am driving it as it is for now. I still may go back to the ECU and tweak the priming percentage and the below 20 inputs just a little more and visit the idle cut off to see if I get just a little quicker return to idle for when I park and turn it off. Yeah, it is getting late in the local season for all this but in one sense I am paying it forward because doing it now means I don't have to futz around with it all in the spring.
Nick
