At getting some Ink in the March 2013 issue of Popular Hot Rodding on page 80..... I was over at a friends house yesterday and was flipping through his issue(I don't subscribe) and came across this....
Congrats Bob, well said.......
Control Your Geeks
Advanced EFI technology is a fantastic thing that allows a few keystrokes to alter just about any point of an engine's performance and driving manners. That can yield fantastic results, like radical, high power combinations that are surprisingly street friendly, but the problem is that you can also dig deep into the tables chasing a level of perfection that's unachievable. Hot Head's Bob Holmes explained that while there may be a theoretically perfect group of specs that would result in the ideal tune, in practice, it's more like a range of specs. Case in point: In preparation for the EMC, the Hot Heads team once spent a solid weekend making over 200 dyno pulls and constantly making minor adjustments to the engine and the tune. In the end, they gained almost nothing, except a lot of wear on the engine. At the highest levels of competition, this many be justifiable for minute gains, but in the world of street cars and even weekend warriors, constant tweaking of the tune becomes more of an academic debate than a practical result......
Advanced EFI technology is a fantastic thing that allows a few keystrokes to alter just about any point of an engine's performance and driving manners. That can yield fantastic results, like radical, high power combinations that are surprisingly street friendly, but the problem is that you can also dig deep into the tables chasing a level of perfection that's unachievable. Hot Head's Bob Holmes explained that while there may be a theoretically perfect group of specs that would result in the ideal tune, in practice, it's more like a range of specs. Case in point: In preparation for the EMC, the Hot Heads team once spent a solid weekend making over 200 dyno pulls and constantly making minor adjustments to the engine and the tune. In the end, they gained almost nothing, except a lot of wear on the engine. At the highest levels of competition, this many be justifiable for minute gains, but in the world of street cars and even weekend warriors, constant tweaking of the tune becomes more of an academic debate than a practical result......
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