http://www.hotrod.com/news/1603-now-enr ... fi-school/
http://www.hotrod.com/news/1603-fuel-in ... -learn-it/
There was good reason to do this 10 years ago...maybe it's now totally obvious to even the most Neanderthal hot-rodder.
EFI school
Re: EFI school
I've said this before. Carb guys who don't understand how to tune fuel injection are the same guys who never got the carb or spark advance dialed in right. With a carb and mechanical/vacuum advance, it IS often easier to get to an 80% solution but that last 20% requires the same basic understanding of how fuel and spark works. And that last 20% is easier on EFI.One of the most interesting takeaways from the presentation was that all of the knowledge amassed from years of tuning carbs isn’t lost upon moving to fuel injection. In fact, the vast majority of it transfers directly over. The numbers on a fuel table are in many ways just carburetor jet sizes, determined by engine load and rpm. And, tuning a carburetor’s accelerator pump transitions directly into tuning acceleration enrichment tables. Oh, and spark timing is still … well, it’s still just spark timing—only there is far less chance of getting shocked from a faulty plug wire when you’re nestled safely behind a keyboard. I’ve come to understand that fuel injection is just a modern twist on something most of us hot rodders already understand, and that at the end of the day whatever is underneath that guise of digital control, is the same engine we’ve been wrenching on for years.
If you've used a computer before, the hurdle to tuning is not the software. It's understanding how an engine works, and how engine controls work. Those basic skills transfer to any engine.