Dumbo The Flying Elephant

[Larry Hill]

Yesterday I decided to stop tiptoeing around the fear of the tune for Dumbo. I changed a few things with the help of Robin and Jeff. I took good notes I think and tried to use good judgment on not straying to far from the line.

[Larry Hill]

Yesterday was a.very good day. I pulled the tune out of the ECU I made notes on the settings and reinstalled it. It worked but it did not log like I wanted. The car started and ran fine, I think. I will know for sure at the Sports. Pulled the tune back out and tried and tried to get it to log like I wanted. After what seemed like a short eternity I found an important bread crum on the computer screen “unsaved”, I hit “save” and the logging did as I think I wanted after I reinstalled the tune. Then I spent the rest of the day studying the Holley system.

I don’t know what is the best way to learn EFI installation and tuning. Never having to work with computers really put me behind in technical development. I went to David Page’s FAST two day school and still think it was money well spent. On Saturday we all got to adjust some stuff on the dyno mule. But if I would have asked a question every time I needed a question answered we would have still been on chapter 3. For me it was better the second time because the words had meaning.

I’m armed but not very dangerous and may never be, but l’m not hesitant anymore. Now the only question is What will make it better?

[Larry Hill]

Put a different tune it and it didn’t like it at all, it fouled the plugs. 16 of them

[Larry Hill]

With the help of my phone camera I was able to see what was way different in the information between the two tunes. Some information was fat fingered and some switches were turned on that did not need to be activated.

[Larry Hill]

Dumbo is starting to act like a well behaved race car sometimes. FI is a lot like having a child. A child will let you know that they are not happy and want something to make it happy.
We lost in round one of eliminations but we ran dead on with a 3.

[Larry Hill]

Dumbo ain’t exactly printing tickets but it’s at least in the same Area Code.

[Larry Hill]

Working on the stuff under the hood to make more power. We made more power and now we have to figure out how to hook it consistently. We will be busy until Indy and beyond. We are not ready to complain about the track we have work to do. We have to be the one going down the track and our opponent might have traction issues.

[Larry Hill]

Very slow week for me. I had cancers removed from my nose. Next day one eye swollen shut and the other one was only a slit. Chris had to drive me to Jerry Newsome’s house to help load the Jerry’s Challenger. Both eyes are open now. Doing breaks and bearings on trailer before next race.

[Larry Hill]

I feel kind of foolish having to do this to Dumbo, I found out that I was breaking the rules on fuel check. After a run I would dip the cup in the tank to get a fuel sample. Travis told me that the sample had to be taken from under the hood. It will be fixed tomorrow now that I have my new valve and an adapter to mount the valve and fuel pressure sender in the fuel system. Also we will be moving some weight around to try to get the car to leave and not spin when it crosses the bald spots.

[Larry Hill]

Four wheel scale day.