Did you upgrade the fuel tank? We are needing a fuel tank but want to retain the skid plate. However, we are wondering if a new POLY tank will work with the fuel injection kit when a tank is not baffled?
Well to a carb there is no comparison as you are fully electronic fuel and timing controlled. No fiddling with chokes, not cold stalling, ect. As far as the Sniper goes I will first off say I have limited experience with the systems, but the experience I have had just wasn't for me. Sniper for the most part ( unless you choose to upgrade) is a fuel only system which is only half of what you are after in a fuel injection system. The 2 sniper systems I had my hands on ( not installed by me) one was a timing controlled system that had some weird quirks that I personally would not tolerate. The other was fuel only and was plagued with issues right out of the box which resulted in a new unit being installed and still had issues that needed sorting beyond the "self learning". There are lots of guys that love the Holley stuff, and I may get there at some point. Just not there yet.
great work I finished my daughter's install and have 2 crankcase ports open 1 on the valve cover and the other on the valley pan should I just put filters on them? or am I missing a port connection?
Valley pan is for the PCV valve and full manifold vacuum. The valve cover is technically supposed to be plumbed to a spark arrestor not to be confused with pcv and then to the air cleaner.
Thanks for posting this content. I am working on installing a Hamilton kit on my pickup as well. Just curious, have you had recent communication with Bill? Been trying to reach him, with no luck.
Yes. When you install the distributor make sure engine is top dead center number 8 on compression. Balancer at 0. Drop distributor in and I use a distributor cap with a hole drilled in it to align the rotor just past the center of a cap terminal and also just double check and make sure the magnetic pickup and reluctor are lined up. After you warm the engine up unhook the timing bypass wire and verify that timing is at 0 with a light. Should be pretty close if you follow these steps.
Cold start warm ups aren't a thing with fuel injection. No stumbling when it is cold. Fire it up. Give oil time to get flowing and take off. Power is about the same as a carb. You aren't going to really gain power with fuel injection (unless there is something wrong with your carb). Fuel economy is improved. I have gotten as much as 16 mpg after switching to fuel injection. 12 seems to be pretty average with carbs and scouts in general.
Sort of. To properly complete the initial setup you must set the minimum idle speed and then adjust the tps. I suppose if one were so inclined you could adjust the TPS using a voltmeter, but that would be senseless seeing as how you would need the laptop anyway if you wanted the ability to log data. I saw in another comment you linked Howell EFI. Their system is the same only they have poor customer service and their tunes are pretty far off out of the box. I have fixed several Howell systems with a proper tune from Hamilton.
