302 for Smithkid

[dhbfaster]

Yea...I used to do a little picking too.
(Really...I'm a trumpet player believe it or not...paid for my college with that.)
But I have a guitar and used to play some of the classic rock stuff as well as most John Denver...and I took a classic guitar class in college too. (I had to get my grades up somehow...)
It would be pretty pitiful today though.
Sounds like our jam session would be pretty weak, we better stick to falcons.

[SmithKid]

Several months ago, I commented in another thread that an upcoming project for me was going to be upgrading to EFI. Back in December I decided to use the FiTech, Go EFI 400 and Command Center fuel pump.

After waiting for our weather to warm and dry a bit, I got started on it last week with assistance/encouragement from Roger (actually, I assisted him).

Today we got it running, although it appears to be running very rich. My feeling at this point is that not all of the factory settings were at default. Soon I'm going to do the procedure to set all at default and try it again. The system is supposed to learn as it's driven to tune itself.

In the attached pic, the Command Center is in the foreground.

[Luva65wagon]

Club member #1: Wow, Gene, that's neato!

Club member #2: Gee, Gene, I gotta get me one of those!

Club member #3: Have you been able to tweak it yet?

Here is a couple pics I took while there.

[SmithKid]

Dear member #1, #2, and #3, I did get under the car and tweek the O2 sensor harness away from the header, but haven't even lowered the car back down yet. Got too much going on at once.

[Luva65wagon]

...haven't even lowered the car back down yet. Got too much going on at once.

Still? I'm anxious to hear it is all running happily. Of course I know all to well the "too much going on" thing. When I realize more than a week has passed and I haven't been here checking for things.

[SmithKid]

Yup. We now getting the house in order to go up for sale in 2 weeks. Soon, I hope.

[SmithKid]

Finally got a little time to look at the Ranchero a week or so ago. Got a little detail under the car taken care of and put it back on the ground. This morning, got a bit more time, Roger (member #1, #2, #3) came by and we reset the ECU to default and started over again. IT RUNS!! Drove it around the block, and will put a few more miles on it in the next coupla days. It's running a bit smoother at idle than it ever has is my first observation. Will keep you posted.