Looking for a Holley Terminator X wiring expert.

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Tested the car last Friday (Tuner Matthew Goede with RAD present and working his magic on the keyboard. Through a Muffler and long pipe extension. Ran the same ET from week before at 2,000' higher corrected DA. No more 4,800 rpm safety in low gear from the old ECM/PM, still driving in D...but adjusted the shift point a bit higher and 5600/5600/4,500 at tge stripe. Car wanted more, more, more fuel. Matt gave it more each pass for 4 passes.

Final 2 passes 60' matched , 330 matched to the thou. 660' within a couple of thou.....but the quarter was slower each pass.

Entered for Saturday/Sunday but Matt looked at the logs overnight and we are waaaaaay to lean (no damage though, but need to locate a 120-125 lb/hr injector High Impedance Bosch EV1 style on Saturday in Vegas, I had to withdraw my paid entry (first time in my racing life), and searched all day Saturday all over the Vegas Valley...no go. Changed plugs, inserted the camera into all 4 cyls, nice and clean in there as were the plugs removed, no piston or valve damages...whew! Packed it up, asked by note at 5AM Sunday to withdraw from The Sunday Race too. That really sucked, and put the car away in storage...ordered 2 injectors from fuel injectorclinic.com by Robin Lawrence contact Monday AM (TY again Robin!...)

The injectors 1-1,400cc/min and 1-1,700/min. Shipped Monday at noon. Due in Thursday/Friday. The Spring Fling 1/8th mile races 15K, 30K, 30K, 30K, Million starts April 1 @Vegas. It will need some tuning, but it will have the correct amt. Of fuel after a quick injector change and a 2 wire AIC repinning
switch. It is going to be ready.
I just hope it takes all day to get a couple of rounds done, I am deadly after dark there.

We shall see soon enough. Thank you Matthew/RAD...your time, advice, and tuning magic are valued highly! (It killed me not to race it, but you were right, it is not worth hurting it by any means), I was long gone in the dark of early morning before even the Juniors started up Sunday. I had to get off the premises before I heard the first motor start up....
I have the drag racing bug really baaaad!

Things are about to get a lot more fun racing a bit faster class racing turtle. Stay tuned, while it gets tuned!

[1700camaro]

Gary,

Hope your system continues to improve & you meet/exceed your goals!

Mathew Goede worked his magic on an issue that had been plaguing our Terminator X tune, that had gotten worse. He hooked up to my ECU 4 times making changes.

My 60's & reaction times were 1.43s & .1xx, after his changes I was in the 1.37s & .01x. I had him stop with the changes because I had to start racing. I'm sure there's a little left in tuning for quicker 60's. We have been in the 1.20s with the old system.

1700/STY/781L

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Will not give away too much yet...But Matthew Goade of RAD (River Auto & Dyno), Lake Havasu City is a magic man on the keyboard tuning me throug a bucket list Spring Fling when we had to start all over fresh with a much larger injector. I could dial and go rounds a .002, a .017, a string of .030-.038 1 early deep red, and 1 foolish bet with Peter Biondo on an .003 for 50 bucks that was my worst light of the week...contained a 3..proceeded by an.08 (Note to self do not get wise with the seller of the boxes and parts you do not use), the lord gets even, sends a message and pride goes before the fall...but when he asked what my light would be I wasn't going to say .083 I said almost same thing it was at this time yesterday (.002), and padded it by a thou he said if it was he would pay 50 bucks...it wasn't. He collected a buyback and I got a free ice cream. Lol.

The tuning though was amazing (had three mechanical little things needed immediate attn. over 3 days, all fixed), and he said it was also 1/4 mile ready on the tune, everything looks good...Drive it hard, drive it like I stole it! So, that combined with a famous last file, last pass breakout off the throttle fully and on the brakes (against an unknown trip zip .000 8 thou total pkg in the other lane behind me....and looking up to see I was broke out .08 on a .25 in dial in an 8mph, gusting to 17-18 mph headwind at almost 2,500 corrected D.A.....that last file loaded is fast and I am looking forward to my first Nat. Event quarter mile Q-pass session on the 11th, eve, in D and through the muffler. Really looking forward after some data soon fir a sneak up but full wring out shifting it fully.

Following the advice of a great Tuner though, and that day will come soon enough!

TY huge Matthew Goade (RAD)! Racing and crewing fir Scott McClay on his Comp Elim. Entry these next 3 again (⁴ wides plus LODRS double at Vegas), will be interesting and busy. Adding a generator to keep it all charged up and aired up helped a bunch.

May will bring more fun as racing goes away until a bracket double in June, heading out to Texas to see some old and new friends and add a bit faster slow car to a Div. Double that rarely has a slow entry show up there.

Only been there at The Motorplex once in 1995 (a rain out after qualifying), and never got to return (Used that entry in Baton Rouge, LA a month later in the season). So, looking forward to that and finally meeting Greg Hogue in Aledo too!

We shall see how much faster (under index at least), we can work up to by races 4/5 on the new Holley Terminator X.

Thank you again MATTHEW. I know it has been a pain, unicorns are like that, but it is getting faster and sounds better than ever...those plugs are amazing looking for a car that was forever slow and phat!

Anyone in need of a fantastic Tuner (all types of systems, in person, in shop, or remote), or overall car design, build, etc.

MatthewGoade RAD (River Auto & Dyno), Lake Havasu City, AZ @riverautodesign
1435 Countryshire Ave.
Suite 101
Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403

Do not cheat yourself out of a great experience. Call him! Look him up on social media as he is active and you can see his work there too!
(928) 538-8599

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ECU is set to learn 1. Ran the 4 wides and the 1st race of the LODRS Double through the muffler and long 2.5" pipe w/ turnout, just like I did the Spring Fling only it was first quarter mile passes and much higher temps and adj. DA.

Car is getting faster slowly as it learns and gets closer to the target A/F ratio.

Then took the straight through muffler out of the equation for LODRS race 7-4. Over the 2 days it picked up nearly 3/10ths over 3 passes.

It is now (I noticed), more air temp
sensitive than Corrected DA sensitive. And the learning setting may be getting screwed with by the actual altitude change of going up in real altitude during the drives up and down the actual track shutdown and return road.

The last pass I made was round 2 of race 7-4....I did not have time before the Stock Elim. Pairing (due to a late Comp return while crewing Scott McClays Comp entry), to as usual drive up on the return road to warm up the car, and though many others were also missing the mark and many had double/single breakouts, mine was a totally out of it early and broke out by a train load .337 on a .47. The 3 race week plus started in the .60's.

The next races will be a double LODRS event at the Texas Motorplex all done on flat land and we shall see if what I suspect is true concerning elevation changes as it may affect ecu tune learning.

If it is more consistent and faster, I then may turn off learning and return to Las Vegas and test it without other changes in June at the Summit double.

My plugs have never ever looked as good as they do right now. It was always very fat/rich. My review showed dial by actual air temp rather than Corrected DA. Wind is the enemy, and a change of scenery is in order...heading to Texas next.