Um, what? LOL!!! Hey Roger, sounds like a completely foreign language to me. I'm just a driver and not much of a do-er, if you know what I mean. I have some very basic mechanical skills but I just need to take the car and turn it over to someone with enough experience to super tune the EFI and be done with it.

BTW, the Holley ECU is self learning. But my unit must be mentally challenged as it hasn't learned much so far, ha, ha. I was just wondering if there was an experienced EFI tuner around Des Moines, Kansas City, Omaha, Chicago, the Quad Cities, Minneapolis, or somewhere in between with the necessary familiarity and experience to get the job done first time. I've been taking the car back to my tuner and he and his main engine tuner have tweaked the unit 6-7 times now and it doesn't seem to have gotten any better. I'm really getting frustrated.

I probably don't have to tell you this is a fairly high dollar unit and I'm expecting it to run like one. Fortunately, my engine tuner hasn't charged me much beyond the initial installation fee for any follow up tuning (which was considerable since there was a LOT of plumbing involved). But, so far, I don't have much in the way of results either. IMHO, part of the problem is the tuner probably hasn't driven the car enough after tweaking it. Not only do I think driving the car after tuning is critical but it needs driven for a good 1-2 hrs and allowed to get COMPLETELY to operating temp. Right now, the engine will idle OK up to about 200 degrees. But if it gets much hotter than that it will start a cyclic surging, kind of like a car with a supercharger. The RPMs get lower and lower and the engine dies and doesn't want to idle until it gets a little cooler. It still starts OK but doesn't want to idle.

Anyway, it still needs a good bit of sorting out. My tuner lives an hour and forty minutes from me and I'm really tiring of the drive to have it tweaked. I'm just not sure where to turn at this point? Andy Starr at Hilborn has been really cool but he can only do so much and the tuner has to be able to take it from there.

Anyway, I'd appreciate any recommendations for experienced EFI tuners. I know I'm really going to like this unit once it's dialed in. I just need to find someone who can get the job done. Thanks again.


Tom