Love videos like these. I learn more from 20 minute videos like this than hours of random googling and reading forums of people arguing over what timing is safe/what afr to focus on. Thanks Matt!
Nick Ottensmeier You don’t need this dude to figure it out. It’s basic. Hell the terminator base tune will get you started. My biggest complaint with the Holley base tunes is lack of resolution in boost. This is easily fixed with some table scaling. What your gunna need the most help with is idle and drivability. Something you won’t find any help with on this channel
Best break down of A/F and timing I've seen. Truck is super happy now and no longer going crazy lean and cutting out right before the 1-2 shift! Thanks for sharing the wisdom. Now I just need a Sloppy Best Cam!
Dear @Sloppy Mechanics I love you very much and you are a genius. I had major exhaust backfiring that I couldn't find the source of the problem with the base tune, never understood timing, and what the issue was... You have made it so I can drive around without the neighbors thinking there is a drive by shooting. Thank you!
I am soooooo glad I found this video! I just got a terminator x and would like to tinker a bit once I get it running, now I feel confident I’ll get it good enough to get it to the dyno 👍
Thank you Matt! I realized from watching this that my intermittent stall at idle when hot is probably because I only had 20 degrees in it right to 0 rpm. I will add some in!
Thank you! Hearing you talk through this while watching you change the area. Speaking for all of us trained by the generation that look at an engine without a distributor as though it were witchcraft, videos like these comfort me! 😁
Thanks Matt really appreciate the time you spend to teach us old school carb guys to get into efi. I worked at a shop for three years doing all 1000hp plus vettes and camaros and vipers and all the high dollar builds and our tuner was such a irrigant snooty I know everything and don’t have time to explain it to you tuning snob and you just clarified more In 20 mins than he did in 3 years. I’m gona run the terminator on my build I’m doing now and I just want to be decent at it and do it all my self start to finish. I saved this vid. Thank you. Keep up the killing it we all appreciate it to no end. That’s why guys send you cool stuff your a good guy.
Thanks again for all the info. Watching all of you videos motivated me to build my own turbo kit for my 72 duster. It's not an LS but a 360 LA motor.I basically followed your formula. It's got a VS Racing 78/75 all custom piping with block hugger headers. It's got the Holley super sniper setup. Runs great and your tuning videos have helped greatly. Keep up the great work, we all appreciate it.
I would absolutely love to see a live dyno tuning session, twin camera angle and screen recording maybe and just talk about what you are doing, na, turbo, pump or e85 I’ll eat that shit up for breakfast haha
Great video. It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood when I wake up to a Sloppy notification. This helps me with my 6.6l gen 1 on Holley commander 950 dinosaur.
YES! I struggled with this last year after I got my TermX on my cammed lq4. Drove around but was far from optimized and running perfect. This will be super useful when spring comes and I can get back to hot rodding. I will take all the holley basic tutorial content you can make haha
all for more of the tuning vids. Holley for sure. And maybe some videos that addresses some of the quirks of the not as easy to find settings on factory pcm, like how to adjusting timing and fuel on a 3bar flex tune and your car is killing way to much power on say E65 ethanol compared to running perfect at say E78. What exact procedure on some oddball issues for novice like that
This was an awesome video! I have the Holley Sniper on my Mustang 302 engine and this tutorial makes a ton of sense even if I am not running an LS. Thank you for posting this.
Thanks for taking the timing and going over this Denbob. I scooped up a Terminator X Max a couple weeks ago to run my cammed L33 swap. Looking forward to firing it up in the coming weeks.
awesome! thank you for posting this. i hope to have an all motor LQ4 w/862s, sloppy3 cam. etc. up and running here soon. nice to have all this info in one spot, and relatable.
Big fan of the channel! I’ve gotten all of my confidence in working on my truck from this channel. Currently have a mild cam 4.8 with a 78/75 Chinese turbo. I’ve slowly been upgrading stuff on it and learning as I go now I’m really intrigued by this video and after I’m finished moving I wanna pull the trigger on a Holley ecu and try to start learning the ways of the tuner! I know I’ll probably mess something up but this video gives me serious confidence that I won’t just be wasting my time I can learn from trial and error so any future tuning videos I would be very grateful.
Definitely helpful. I had a pisser of a time trying to figure out what was a safe ignition map for an AMC project in the driveway. I'm focused on moving right now but Terminator X might be the next thing I do to my LS truck.
It would be awesome to see this same thing on a turbo setup please! Along with the tricks and tips on taking the data collected from data logging and applying it to making changes like you mention at the end of this video.
Great video. Be cool to see a new tune on the dyno and see how you go about setting it up and finding where yo add and subtract timing and fuel to gain hp. Big dyno numbers are cool but seeing where you made the changes to get to those final numbers is what I find interesting.
Congrats on 100k subs. Sorry about the clutch. On to bigger and better things. I'm running Holley sniper on my vortech blown 350 SBC. I have a pretty good fuel and timing table but I'm always glad to see more info on tuning these systems. Vortech v3 si centrifugal supercharger. Trick Flow heads. Comp roller cam. Sniper 4150 tbi.
I have a couple subjects you can cover if youre up to it.. First issue is getting a factory tach to run off of Terminator X without buying any filters/amplifiers or current changing relays and discussing the different types of tachs and their correct terminology and specs as to how they operate so people can differentiate between them. The other issue is getting 10.1" tablet dash hooked-up to the speedometer in a stickshift truck/car with a 2 wire VR sensor. My truck has 3 speed sensors..One on the Tremec TKO600,one on the stock speedometer drive and one on the rearend to choose from but all are 2 wire..I see Tick performance makes a 3 wire but its like $150.00.. Thanks for making the informative vids.
Just beginning my Sniper tuning and my out of the box Wizard experience has not been as good as advertised. I think the way you explained it makes a lot of sense. Thank you!
First, thank you for taking the time to put this up...LS Timing tutorials are few and far between....unfortunately, my car did not like this tune wanted to idle around 1200 rpm at 14 AFR and was hunting like crazy
I really enjoyed this video, it helped me with my terminator x max! but I could really use some help with my base fuel and spark maps for 5.3 turbo on E85 Thanks a lot!!!!!!
well I'm here to learn something now, I have been watching your videos for years but I am a carb guy I change jets and read plugs change timing by turning the distributor, so I just jumped the fence and got sniper efi with the hyperspark for the 383 I just built and yeah...wont even idle lol glad you made videos on this stuff because I feel pretty dumb right about now
Excellent!! Thank you. Explaining what to do, how to do it, and why do it all together is super helpful. You save so many people a ton of time/frustration.
thanks for doing this big time helpful...when i ran the wizard I copied what you loaded in for the fire hazard truck firmware update video, I have single snail job but still figured its better than any uneducated guess I would have made.
I left what Holley had and started driving, I was counting on it being in an Ultra 4 and have only driven it in low range so far to keep the load low. I am heading to a friend's ranch to tune WOT when the kids are on spring break so this is perfect timing for my timing.
With all the free time most of us have right now stuck at home I would be down for a step by step holley terminator online tuning course. I'm pretty familiar with haltech, rom raider and Honda chipped stuff but the more I learn the more I realize I need to learn. I know you like to provide a service for all us slops free of charge and people will throw a hissy fit but those are the same ones who never build anything anyway. A reasonable entry fee for the course that also doubles as an entry for a terminator x max as the grand prize and even if you don't win you get a sizeable discount towards the purchase of a terminator system. It could be a win win for holley because if I put one in my car and it runs really good now maybe my buddy wants one too because I can tune it pretty well.
Awesome vid Matt, as I plan to scoop a Term X Max soon.. Edit: something I've struggled to understand is if You enable flex, do You have to make two complete maps for Pump gas, and then E? Or does the Holley automatically adjust the tune based on Ethanol percentage? Thanks again Matt, awesome vid as usual.
thank you! id love some stick car tuning tips. my autos were all fairly easy but this ar5 truck is a bear to get to come off RPM as you push in the clutch to stop. ordered the can to USB cable today.
14.7 comes from chemistry. It takes 14.7 parts of air to convert 1 part of gasoline. It feeds back to emissions. So yes the government and manufactures have settled on that as everything automotive revolves around emissions. Everything else is secondary
Got my Terminator installed this past weekend waiting on a few more parts and she will be ready for startup. Budget fell a little short of going turbo at the moment but got the 5.3 with SS2 and pac 1218’s installed and all ready to go. You know just in case you wanted to take a trip to Tennessee and tune an almost stock deal for the channel hahaha.
