Dumbo The Flying Elephant

[Cglrcng]

Ok, long story not so short. Holley building of global files can be shortened to a simple batch file to instantly add all those switches together with 1 click (so you cannot forget anything). I can teach you in a few hours, the easiest file naming systems, folder naming systems, and to save every single change and tie those files to the track, or dyno you are tuning on at the time.

Let an older, slower guy teach you some new tricks. If you brought me a computer to fix 10 yrs ago, every single page I visited on the internet to read up on the solution to repair or debug it, buy a part, the hrs logged doing the work, all the files I downloaded for it were all in a single link folder with your name on it, everything automatically logged to the single folder, amongst the millions of link folders for everything else I did! Every computer you owned that I would have touched was right there at my fingertips and I have 3 separate copies of said links folder, since every single drive ever made, eventually fails. Make it simple, back it up twice.

Have I ever HOLLEY TUNED? Not yet, but I will, soon, too, and I will have folders pre-made and labeled for every track before I ever arrive. And will write simplified batch files first to help me learn with fewer mistakes and a bit more speed than the rather confusing video presentation on page 84 of your thread, though, that is a great starting point. They have a great product. I am too old not to use my hard learned talents and I will share. We don't have a lot of time left to waste, neither of us.

First, I need to choose my ECU, buy an un-terminated cable, strip it out, and build it myself, wire it up, replace all my existing connectors, and not see smoke on that first refire, as letting the magic smoke out is bad, and that I learned over the last decade mentoring high school robotics students in FIRST Robotics. I just learned a bunch from you and your Dumbo build thread, thanks so far for the ride along.

[Larry Hill]

I’m computer illiterate! Without help from Robin, Chris, Geoff, Jeff, Cooter, Bob, Holley, and a host of others I would be very lucky if I could get it to start. I’m trying to get better.
I worry about lack of parts so I’m very protective if something is off by .003”, the thickness of a hair, I’ll work until I’m confident it will perform.

My dream vacation would be a week on the dyno answering the few simple questions I have about, fuel, spark timing, lowering the time from X to Y on acceleration, and on and on

[Cglrcng]

I get you there, I will soon be in the same position, just back every file you (or your tuner's have created (not once), but twice), on other than the device you are using in association with the car. To a pen drive, another hard drive, or other media.

All, and I mean all drives eventually fail, they are manufactured to fail, each has failure/failed sectors when sold, those are just pre marked do not use, and each has a very limited amount of spare
sectors, so as a working sector fails during a read/write process, and damaged sectors happen and are found by the operating system, the data within
(written to a damaged sector will attempt to auto recover, and write it to a new spare sector....as much as possible, including any corrupt data), then that sector is crossed off as unuseable forevermore. Once, all the spare sectirs are put into action, that is all she wrote...impending drive failure warnings will begin, the drive is eventually dying, or will have died without warning, and without expensive data recovery processes (the data may become unreachable).

With the 2 backup copies, a new drive or device, download the Holley Software, update to latest version (or Borrow someone else's device, with the latest version on it), and Plug in that pen drive w/all your backup files on it boom, back
In business in minutes.

Just treat those files you create even better than your grand kids pics on your phone or computer, precious, diamonds, pure gold. (Only we can make multiple copies for emergency use!)

I have only had my FWD car on a roller dyno once, low HP, nearly stock, on slicks in a tuners shop in Gainesville, FL (a local tuner w/a not that busy shop in 1995 walked up to me in the lanes at the Gatornat's just before Q2. Says I live your budget Stocker, and we chatted, and when I was next in the lanes for Q3 later, he said if you need anything, my shop is open to you, come on by, work on it there please while in town.

I did, and he got it up on the rollers, on slicks. Me in the seat facing a gray big tall cinder block wall just 2 feet away
from the front bumper, and had me go through the gears slowly, and put all the steam to it that lil' 99HP engine could muster and produce. No drag race in my lifetime has ever created as much fear to my psyche, as staring at that block wall as 6,700 rpm in high gear did while listening to his instructions and hearing the scream of those rollers under load.

When it finally came to a stop (after a lot of really bad scenarios flashed through my brain), as FWD is a lot different than RWD, those wheels you know are closer to your body, and you usually are not facing a wall that close...My heart was pending out of my chest. I could not imagine doing that with a high HP elephant motor.

I will dyno, and let the tuner do the driving next time. I have seen just too many youtube dyno failures at this point in time. Going om a pass is nothing, racing great competition gets the blood flowing, that dyno ride was though, not afraid to admit it, flat terrifying as I had just pulled the transaxle out. Sent the converter in to Turbo Action for a pinhole leak in a weld repair, and reinstalled it that day, and luckily checked everything over 4 times on reinstall knowing the dyno pulls would
be next. Needless to say, he did 4 more pulls, and it was more fun watching than driving.

The first 1 was like parachuting out of a planlate me without a parachute on.

Good luck w/Dumbo brother.

[Larry Hill]

I received some good news yesterday Jeff Taylor said my head was fixed!

[1matcoman]

Originally Posted by Larry Hill

I received some good news yesterday Jeff Taylor said my head was fixed!

Cylinder head? Or, that thing between your ears???

[Larry Hill]

Patsy lamented that fixing between my ears is a lost cause.

[Larry Hill]

Assembling is easy it's getting all the parts to like each other is the time consuming part.