I happen to have a story about self learning EFI systems. I entered a contest that Holley had for Long Haulers on the Hot ROd Power Tour. They were going to install a terminator EFI at the Birmingham stop of the tour. I found out before the tour that I was one of five finalist before I left California. Well I won it. I did load the deck by getting a new tank and welding in a -8 pick up like I do for most of my cars that have high hp engines, but had not done that for this stock 440 w .484 cam and wasn't planning on doing so, but since they were installing it during the event, I figured they might just pick a car that they didn't have to drop the tank on.
The install was pretty straight forward using my stock 3/8 sending unit for the pump and we used the -8 for the return just for ease of installation in a parking lot. I mounted the pump on the leafspring hanger (SS Spring)and used the earls superstock hose. The EFI mounts in place of the carb and i put the regulator where the washer bottle was and mounted the computer next to the battery. Again simple parking lot install. I had to weld a bung for o2 sensor before the tour.
The car fired right up and ran just fine. Had a couple of times when i went WOT that it had a little delay so they upped the "accelerator pump" and after that no problems. No more keeping the car running by playing with the pedal in the morning.
I drove the 68 Charger RT a total of 7622 miles for the Power Tour. Keep in mind the 850 DP was tuned on a smog machine before I left California. I dyno'd the car in Arlington and in Charlotte with a gain of about 5 HP and 12ft/lb after the efi. The milage was only slightly better with the efi.
After dropping my brother off in Baton Rouge, La., I drove home in two 17 hr days without any problems doing 80 mph (limit 75) most of the time. The holley pump is very quiet.
Herb McCandelless also did the tour and couldn't figure out why that Charger was jacked up in the back and had a carb under the Back tire. I saw him at the mopar tour outside of Chattanooga and he told me to change intake from torker to performer RPM so that will happen next week. Holley also said it would perform better with that manifold as well.
Overall I love it. Very easy to install, self learning is a no brainer. I have Chrysler electronic ignition so no timing adjustments (just hooked to coil). I'm just glad I won it!!!
