Thank you Brad Plourd

[KRatcliff]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

Kyle, as I told you before, always turn it back on and re-connect to make sure your changes are there. (BS3) I'm not real crazy about the new Holley either. But, I don't trust anything from Holley with a wire going to it anyway.

The only way we could get any progress with a BS3 is to be directly connected to it and make the changes as you suggest. Even then it was not a 100% certainty. I like the 100% certainty that we get with the FAST. That still doesn't resolve the 30 min log timeout of the BS3. If you cannot log, you cannot tune properly. Even a simple LED power light on the unit would be a nice visual indicator if the unit has fully powered down or not.

Maybe because I am getting older and a bit more delicate, but I do like the ability of sitting down in an air conditioned RV to take my time to refine a tune. What is up with the BS3 ghosting back over an old program when you attempt to make adjustments to your baseline to put in the car? We have tried every way we can think of to name the files differently and the old one keeps reappearing.

An unnamed racer that I feel has as good a handle on these things as anyone and he/his team is deadly on the track makes me come across as a cheerleader. I remember him taking his engine to the dyno after Bowling Green to get the last bit of performance tuning done before Indy. He would make a change on the ECU and nothing different would happen on the dyno. Long story short, he estimated that there were over 10 unnecessary dyno pulls because the ECU wouldn't take the change. He had been using this same ECU for at least the 4 years I have known him. I don't think anyone would question his tuning ability if you knew who I was talking about.

All of this are unnecessary distractions when trying to get the last bit of performance out of these cars. Stock and Super Stock are the only classes in drag racing that I can think of that consist of finesse (bracket racing) and brute strength (heads up) simultaneously.