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Originally Posted by Detoxing
Oh, and you mentioned the Sniper EFI, DJ:
See this issue Marcellus is dealing with? **** man, we have yet to install any of these TBI style EFI kits and not have SOME sort of problem.
For the most part they're good. And the initial installs go smooth. But when it comes to these "self learning" tunning systems, they're riddled with issues. I was much higher on these kits a year or two ago than i am today. My customer who installed the EPAS kit also installed the Sniper EFI kit and he still hasn't gotten it dialed in quite right yet. Next time i see him i'll ask him exactly what the issue is, but he's complained to me a lot about it. He took it to one of the best Tunning shops in SD and they can't get it right either. So idk....
I'm not so confident anymore that there's any great aftermarket EFI kits out there. These EFI TBI kits are just littered with complaint after complaint. Buggy issue after issue. Whether it's Holley, Fi-Tech, Retrotek....whomever.
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My Holley had a bit of a bitch fit a month or so after I got it where it just...re-set. It was strange, it just dropped all its inputs and effectively put me in limp mode. I could get it up to about 55 by simply not getting it over maybe 1500 RPM but if I tried to put my foot in it at all it just roared a lot and went nowhere.
I got it into the mechanic, he plugged it in and just looked very confused. "It's just not there" isn't exactly something you want to hear. He just put the programming back in, wrote it down for me with a cheat sheat so I could try to do it myself if I really needed to and it's been clean ever since.
I guess 'dialed in quite right' is the operative term here. I'm not sure if mine's as perfect as it could be, but it runs a hell of a lot better than it ever ran with that Demon 750 on there.
Ultimately my cam is just so damn big and aggressive that it's really hard to keep a carburetor dialed in. Or at least it's over my head and I don't feel like taking it in every month to get it tuned back up. And honestly, when you talk about the brakes, I'm pretty sure they're a vacuum system and {last horse enters the barn} that massive cam and lousy vacuum I get at idle could really be creating some of the poor braking I'm experiencing.
I'll have to look over some of that stuff when I get a minute as I just can't recall off the top of my head. At some point I'm gonna yank that Cam out as well - I know it will make it snarl a little less (at 800 rpm that lope it has is just incredible) but it'll clean up some other issues along the way.
I could replace the cam and get some guillotine style cutouts with electric switches so I can just open them up when I want to be really obnoxious, I suppose...