[Doosenberry]

Glad you got it working. I must say that looks so clean compared to the oil mud from everything on mine leaking. Right now I'm just pretending that it's a good thing because stuff can't rust if it's covered in oil mud. It's almost like free undercoating.

Some people pay a lot of money for that. I hear Fluid Film is popular in the rust belt. Cleaning and painting everything that got removed from the Bronco before putting them back on really helped a lot for my ugly heap.

I'm sure I could clean up most of the oil and dirt with some degreaser and the pressure washer at the car wash.

 

[Doosenberry]

I messed around with a couple of the fuel settings on the Sniper. I need to do more, but it'd be a lot easier with a laptop. Using the handheld is a pain with graphs. I bumped up the prime percentage and then decreased the afterstart enrichment.

Increasing the prime made it start with less cranking and then the Sniper, in the much colder temps I've noticed, it will dump too much fuel in for a little bit until the coolant temp rises. It'll act like a carb that's flooding out and I'll have to open the throttle a bit to rev the engine and clear it out. A lot of the fuel adjustments in the settings are based on engine temp, so the colder it is, the more fuel gets put in.

Anyway, I'll fiddle with it a bit more. I think I went slightly too far and right after it starts it runs for a couple seconds then kinda stumbles and then picks back up to where it needs to be, when it's dead cold anyway. The curve on the graph was crazy high in the cold temps and I cut it to like a 1/3 of what it was set at.

 

[BikerPepe`]

I know exactly nothing about the EFI mod setups but it sounds like you may end up with two, or possibly more (spring/fall) different programmable settings to optimize the behavior... once you get everything dialed in for the seasonal fine tune settings. Any chance the Sniper has memorable settings to swap between?

 

[Doosenberry]

I know exactly nothing about the EFI mod setups but it sounds like you may end up with two, or possibly more (spring/fall) different programmable settings to optimize the behavior... once you get everything dialed in for the seasonal fine tune settings. Any chance the Sniper has memorable settings to swap between?

I'm doing more reading online regarding all the settings as I think there's a better approach to what I'm trying to achieve. Essentially, if I spend enough time dialing it in and all of the sensors are working properly, I wouldn't need two setups. It would just put in the right amount of fuel for a given engine temp/load.

I can't remember if it'll let you save more than one "tune" on the sd card in the handheld. Like I said though, it shouldn't be necessary. I haven't messed with all the settings on my Sniper in a long time. I think the last thing I did was lean out my cruise a/f ratio on the handheld the last time I drove on the highway to go camping, which was maybe 1 1/2 years ago.

The tuning on the handheld is very basic. I'm assuming they tried to keep it simple enough that most people won't screw things up. It seems to self-learn pretty well for most situations. I just think the default tables for very cold weather are rich across the board. It may be better now with newer firmware or newer Snipers.

 

[SHOme]

I'm doing more reading online regarding all the settings as I think there's a better approach to what I'm trying to achieve. Essentially, if I spend enough time dialing it in and all of the sensors are working properly, I wouldn't need two setups. It would just put in the right amount of fuel for a given engine temp/load.

I can't remember if it'll let you save more than one "tune" on the sd card in the handheld. Like I said though, it shouldn't be necessary. I haven't messed with all the settings on my Sniper in a long time. I think the last thing I did was lean out my cruise a/f ratio on the handheld the last time I drove on the highway to go camping, which was maybe 1 1/2 years ago.

The tuning on the handheld is very basic. I'm assuming they tried to keep it simple enough that most people won't screw things up. It seems to self-learn pretty well for most situations. I just think the default tables for very cold weather are rich across the board. It may be better now with newer firmware or newer Snipers.

I feel your pain on this. I am using the PIMP x and have only adjusted for idle as I have not driven it yet. Its a steep learning curve for me buy I am always up for learning new stuff. There is a ton of info available which helps me understand. The scariest part for me is making a change and damaging the engine somehow. I have added a dual AFR gauge in my console so I can monitor the fuel mixture without the computer hooked up. I believe the sniper has a cabin mounted display for this? I think we have opposite issues. I would like a small display so I don't have to have my computer connected to monitor everything. Allegedly there will be a Bluetooth app available in the future. Good luck. I now have another resource

 

[Doosenberry]

I feel your pain on this. I am using the PIMP x and have only adjusted for idle as I have not driven it yet. Its a steep learning curve for me buy I am always up for learning new stuff. There is a ton of info available which helps me understand. The scariest part for me is making a change and damaging the engine somehow. I have added a dual AFR gauge in my console so I can monitor the fuel mixture without the computer hooked up. I believe the sniper has a cabin mounted display for this? I think we have opposite issues. I would like a small display so I don't have to have my computer connected to monitor everything. Allegedly there will be a Bluetooth app available in the future. Good luck. I now have another resource

Yes, the Sniper uses a 3.5" LCD display that you can either leave hooked up or leave it off. I've left it hooked up and it sits on the very left of my dash via cellphone holder.

I don't know if they all function the same, but mine is very sensitive and when using my fingers, sometimes the placement of a dot on a graph that I'm trying to slightly move will jump all over the place up or down. Using a stylus would probably help.

Either way, there are far more tuning settings to play with via a laptop and the free software they provide on the Holley website compared to the 3.5" handheld.

 

[2ndHelping]

I don't know if they all function the same, but mine is very sensitive and when using my fingers, sometimes the placement of a dot on a graph that I'm trying to slightly move will jump all over the place up or down. Using a stylus would probably help.

I found it to be very sensitive also. I keep the stylus that came with mine right below in a small 1/4" hole that the PO had a toggle switch in. It's still very touchy.