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The day we picked up the car in 1993 in Long Beach, CA (3K time purchase price from Mom, so much a month, and it didn't take long to earn the sign off on the title), bought for my wife as, a well-cared for, daily driver.

The only actual pic on short notice (I will post it later), shows half the car...Silver on Silver, and Silver/Gray interior, 2 door hatchback, never been in an accident, no bondo, no scratches, zero rust, only 27K miles on the odometer (only driven back and forth to work Feb 1985 to April 93), never even driven on vacation or been out of CA at that point, garaged or curb parked. I was with Mom when she picked it up form the dealer, no major work done except sched. maint., ever.

She (my wife), drove it for all of 3 weeks and made a fateful mistake. She asked me if it would be possible to race a completely factory Stock Slow Street Car that was low mileage, and well cared for, and was only dealer serviced its entire lifetime that I knew the entire maint. history on and I had changed the oil on a few times before).

You see, I always wanted to go class racing in Stock Eliminator (ala Chad Langdon and some of my other friends and competitors), racing back in the day, and a few years earlier I wanted to buy (at a great price in the late 80's), Al Wilson's A/SA Mopar (out of FL), but it was just not doable at the time, was in reach pricewise to obtain the car, but then what...I really could not afford the higher end cost of racing it in reality after all of our bean counting was done, with our 2nd son on the way, and a business to run, a new condo, and many employees to manage, while living in SoCal/South Orange County.

Going fast (A/SA was fast back then)...But, a budget slow GF/SA car when she made that mistake of asking the question, was quite doable.

My answer was quick, and Carlsbad was right down the road, Wednesday to Saturday seemed a long way away.

Carlsbad, Saturday morning, a bone stock 1984 Factory equipped w/ air and CA Emissions, Electric Windows, manual remote mirrors, no sushi slicer (Non-Turbo) 84' Dodge Daytona (Late December build -assembly 3rd week of 84') (15th week 84' casted Uncommon block) 2.2L/135 CI (Single Point injected- Upright Bosch Type), 99HP TBI. And just on unleaded pump gas w/ a lil octane booster added.

That is 4 spark plugs, 1 injector, 1 small single barrel and 1 round butterfly venturi type upright throttle body and blade, a tiny intake manifold and an air intake pathway that stinks to high heaven, with all the twists and turns it has stock to squeeze air through a lousy slider type single OHC cam (1), both in and out of the rear of that transverse mounted head w// no valve job yet. 2 computers...both an under hood fender mounted Power Module controlling spark and the injector, and a passenger side mounted ECU (calculating & controlling everything else in an early crude and simplified Mopar shot at full production attempted EFI, that was recognized so bad by (By the manufacturer mid year 1984...even though they sold a lot of them), as "The Deathly & Boringly Slow Sporty Dodge" that they decided to slap on a sushi slicer small Turbo, and cancelled the entire EFI/TBI slated for the 1985 year model, and never produced another of that particular single point TBI type again), in the lower right kick panel.

(The EPA refused to allow anyone to ever to this day in 2023, release to anyone "except the authorized rebuilders" the actual coding for the 1984 single year units of the TBI ECU, and nobody I have ever found-SO FAR, has ever cracked and hacked, and published the 84 EFI ECU tables (mainly due to very few ever wasted their time racing this a slow sled, since the multi-point injected turbos started limited production that same year...even the 84 Turbos were a single year 1 off, all the others after were different), and though with a special custom cable is avail. which using a serial cable and the under hood mounted diag. cable connector (passenger side fender), and the published hacked reading software, and looking at the 85 Turbo model published code and tables, and simply disregarding the tables that mentioned anything Turbo related, you can easily back engineer and change many of the function table flags (turning some things on/off)....Decades ago I wanted to simply up or turn off any rev limit feature, but today for sure I can tell you after 1 recent pass that mine is set beyond 7,000 RPM on at least 1 of my ECU's of 6 I have, the one in the car now and last in the car in 1997, so it is just fine!

This is not a laptop tuning model without installing a standalone Holley or like system and rewiring the entire car. (That is the plan soon though).

That must be developed slowly so we just remove the engine only wiring harness, install the Holley control over that and all sensors and functions, and leave the key switch to operate everything else from headlights to tail lights and the EFI fuel delivery and safety systems, power windows, etc.

Oh yeah, did I forget to say while I could rebuild and tune Carbs of all kinds up to this point in life in my sleep, that this was my very first EFI car, Oh, I knew absolutely nothing about EFI (what a real learning experience the first few years was!) Carbs and a screwdriver....EFI a multimeter and a laptop. (Ok, and not on my Locked out secret squirrel ECU/PM...Thank You so much you freaking EPA Monsters!)