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Carry on.
Nolan

Beautiful! I've read some nightmares about Fitech too, it's a drag figuring out problems with this high tech stuff., expensive too.

Originally Posted by v8nutz

Beautiful! I've read some nightmares about Fitech too, it's a drag figuring out problems with this high tech stuff., expensive too.

I bought mine way back when I started building this thing so I think I just got a faulty unit. I am out of warranty and Holley has a 4-6 week wait time. Bought another one and swapped them out, works fine now. Still need to go test it on the street.

Awesome work, it looks beautiful! I love the red interior and everything about the truck! What's the giant tail light sign on the wall of your shop? That definitely caught my eye. Sorry to hear about the sniper. I've had several friends have issues with them. I sold my dual quad fitech because I figured it would be a PITA too.

Originally Posted by 40FordDeluxe

Awesome work, it looks beautiful! I love the red interior and everything about the truck! What's the giant tail light sign on the wall of your shop? That definitely caught my eye. Sorry to hear about the sniper. I've had several friends have issues with them. I sold my dual quad fitech because I figured it would be a PITA too.

That is a display sign my brother made 20 years ago to put in front of dads 40 coupe when he was showing it.

This stuff is taking forever in between our day jobs and living life.

Just need to wax the cab forward then we can start putting the chrome on.

Dust magnet for sure.

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So we're still out here fighting with sniper issues, might be sending it back to summit soon.

But at least it looks good?

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I have followed your build from the beginning, and you've done a fantastic job on it!
I'm posting because I also have a Holley EFI (mine's a Dominator) on my Car (I'm in Utah also), and had a few tuning issues in the beginning-after a bunch of looking at options, I found a remote Tuner who specializes in Holley EFI's and has a very good reputation (his pricing is reasonable too)- he remote tuned my Car (it's a screamer now, and he will help with problems if needed)-
He is on the Holley EFI Group on Facebook, and goes by Los Vasquez-his phone # is 561-644-0896, and he is super nice/helpful-he can help with any Holley product-
Closer to Home, Brock Lesner at Absolute Performance in West Jordan is a Holley EFI Dealer/Tuner (and has a Chassis Dyno), but I had a few issues getting an appointment with him-hope this helps, and I look forward to seeing your Truck in person at local Shows!

Originally Posted by 35WINDOW

I have followed your build from the beginning, and you've done a fantastic job on it!
I'm posting because I also have a Holley EFI (mine's a Dominator) on my Car (I'm in Utah also), and had a few tuning issues in the beginning-after a bunch of looking at options, I found a remote Tuner who specializes in Holley EFI's and has a very good reputation (his pricing is reasonable too)- he remote tuned my Car (it's a screamer now, and he will help with problems if needed)-
He is on the Holley EFI Group on Facebook, and goes by Los Vasquez-his phone # is 561-644-0896, and he is super nice/helpful-he can help with any Holley product-
Closer to Home, Brock Lesner at Absolute Performance in West Jordan is a Holley EFI Dealer/Tuner (and has a Chassis Dyno), but I had a few issues getting an appointment with him-hope this helps, and I look forward to seeing your Truck in person at local Shows!

Thank you, I appreciate the info, we are hopefully fixing it right now so I have my fingers crossed we don't need to do that just yet. I hope we get to start sharing it soon, I'm ready to be away from the shop, having fun and socializing, we haven't committed to anything yet except Cache Valley, just need it to be right. When we drove it the other day, everything felt pretty good except the sniper issues.

Kind of a run down.

Bought first sniper early in the build back in 2016, by the time we even got to firing it up recently it had not been tested, ended up having a bad driver (as they tell us) giving us a bad 35.6 02 reading from the first fire up and every one after. So at this point I am out of any warranty, I would have pay to have Holley fix it and wait 4-6 weeks, so to get this thing on the road I just purchased another sniper and we swapped them out, also not realizing the sniper 2 would just take a little extra work to put on.

So we get the replacement on and it has 02 readings but they are all over the place and it kept shutting itself down (Red screening/no data). Of course we have data logged and documented what we did on every change and sent to Holley techs, phone calls etc. I ended up calling Summit the other day, they was cool and are letting me send that Sniper 1 back and I just payed the difference.

So here we are today. You can see the changed injector locations and ECU location, also took off the fuel pressure regulator.
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So we have to redo some fuel line stuff and mount a fuel pressure regulator, building a bracket for that, we already pulled the touch screen and replaced with the new one, we're going to modify the throttle cable bracket, it comes with a plug that allows us to plug into the sniper 1 wiring. We are also going to relay the pink wire. Still waiting on AN fittings and some hose to show up, if we get that tomorrow I don't see why we can't have it all back together.
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Third times a charm?

Gorgeous! That sucks you're having FI issues, but it seems there's always bugs to work out no matter how hard you try to make it perfect.

Originally Posted by v8nutz

Gorgeous! That sucks you're having FI issues, but it seems there's always bugs to work out no matter how hard you try to make it perfect.

Thank you, I appreciate that. It's been a journey so far, building it this nice was not my original intentions, yet here we are. It's gonna be a riot.

I agree. It's a beautiful truck. And a shame the FI isn't as plug and play as they make them out to be.

Sounds like you're on the right track-I had an issue with the Bosch 02 Sensors (readings all over.too), changed them over to the NTK and it straightened right out-
The original Sniper had a kind of dubious reputation, however from what I've heard the Sniper 2 has been a good unit-Hope it goes well for you-

That's a problem with builds that take years, pretty much everything you buy is out of warranty by the time you run it. I was pretty worried about my rebuilt trans I bought, kind of scary not knowing if it will work or not. Fortunately seems Ok other than a slightly harsh 1-2. Hope you have it licked this time.

Everything got swapped over, had to build a bracket for the fuel pressure regulator, modify the throttle cable bracket, rebuild some fuel lines, pull the screen wiring and mount the new one. So far so good, we are getting normal readings on everything, we still have a some engine noises we need to diagnose, I hope it's nothing like a collapsed lifter.

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https://youtu.be/rGHguYc-qLI?si=JmSP27K5xckTH70I

https://youtu.be/eid4deR6e0Y?si=Kg-6ru6NXZx_5578

Hard to say how long before we experience problems with the sniper 2.