[Land-speed] mech FI question

John Burk joyseydevil at comcast.net
Mon Oct 15 21:07:25 MDT 2007


Saw that problem once when a guy had the barrel valve backwards .



>I have a dyno question. We've been running a 438BBC with Crower mech stack 
>2.9
> in butterfly, flowed by Kinsler, with a Kinsler barrel valve and have had 
> very
> satisfactory results in the Big Red Truck from Tx. We tried to run it on a
> Stuska twin break dyno in July. We spent 10 days and wore out my cell 
> phone
> with Kinsler. We would bring the engine to 4k and start to adj the initial
> hold load, go wfo and before we could touch the sweep button, the thing 
> would
> shake,spit, and die. The plugs were always wet. Pill changes made 
> absolutely
> no diff.  Ran it with a dominater in Oct and was REALLY slow. It worked 
> fine
> on the dyno with the carb. Are we trying to run it wrong with the fi on 
> the
> dyno??  Suggestions??Bernie


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