Stock 360 output

Any updates?

There’s no doubt a well tuned carb can perform extremely well and in terms of WOT dyno numbers or fuel economy numbers, and if done right, will match the performance of EFI. But that’s the exception, not the rule. And I’d like to meet the guy who can tune a carb to beat both fuel economy AND performance numbers at the same time with the same tune. But what a lot of folks don’t realize is that even the best “wide band tunes itself” bolt on EFI system (90% of them throttle body carb replacements) isn’t just magic right from the get go. There’s still some tuning involved to get the max performance and efficiency people are hoping for from these things. That said, I’ve run both and I really value the experience and engine knowledge I gained from learning to tune my EFI setup. I’m running a carb now in the Hornet and though it seems to run fine, I am itching to hook up an O2 sensor and gauge. I learned enough with EFI the know there’s no doubt I’m leaving a lot on the table. There’s a lot you can do with a vacuum gauge at idle, but how much of my daily driving is done at idle?

Well, that’s a departure from the theme of your thread, WesternRed, sorry bud. And I’m sure I’m preaching to the choir here with this audience. Just stuff that was on my mind.

I only got around to finally downloading the Sniper configuration just before the last night out and still don't know what most of it means. I have a lot of learning to do there, but I'm sure it's really no different to learning how to tune a carby properly.

I’m not a VE table expert, but I found with the Quick Fuel QFI system I used in the past that if I looked at the areas of the table where the biggest % of corrections were being made, I could increase/decrease pulse width in those areas to get the base map closer and reduce the amount of correction being applied. A few weeks of honing the base map helped a good bit as the computer wasn’t trying to do so much work. And yes, fuel enrichment settings helped. There was fast and slow throttle enrichment, decel cutoff, etc., etc. to work with. Adjusting AFR targets to be ideal across the range made a difference also.

I gotta say it again - I enjoy the “figure it out” nature of your thread here. Guys like myself don’t have much in the budget to make power and speed with dollars, so it’s an exercise in budget conscious tinkering to do more with less and strive to understand the car as well as possible. I added an additional full sized leaf with the eyes cut off and clamped all of the leafs forward of the rear axle after talking to an old timer once and was amazed at how much better my Javelin hooked up. Didn’t cost me a dime as I carefully removed and reused leafs and leaf clamps from another set of leaf packs I had lying around.