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Air fuel ratio for direct drive

On my Windsor I drilled a small hole on the side of the stat. It sure helped with the air purge. There is a funnel from Lisle tools that uses an adapter to the radiator cap that will let the system run and bleed off air.

https://www.summitracing.com/parts/lil-24680/overview/

I also run a product called Hypercool which is an additive to help prevent corrosion when using straight water. Water helps transfer heat much better than anti freeze.
 
hdsadey said:
On my Windsor I drilled a small hole on the side of the stat. It sure helped with the air purge. There is a funnel from Lisle tools that uses an adapter to the radiator cap that will let the system run and bleed off air.

https://www.summitracing.com/parts/lil-24680/overview/

I also run a product called Hypercool which is an additive to help prevent corrosion when using straight water. Water helps transfer heat much better than anti freeze.
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I'm going to drill a hole in the stat today. I have one of those radiator funnels. I'm going let it run with the expansion tank open and the funnel in place.
 
Drilled the hole, it was still creeping up to 230 at idle, decided to give it some rpm and see if I could force the bubbles out. Worked like a charm, idling at 190 degrees and cruising at 186-188. It ran awesome at idle, cruise, and WOT. Picked up 100rpm on the trailer. I know it takes time to learn, but sudden throttle changes would make it stumble and going WOT from a low rpm would make it hesitate for a few seconds. I'm going to let it learn for a while before I change anything, only put 2 hours on it.
 
Oh, and I dropped the timing to 32, it was at 36. Might try to bring it back up and see if it picks up rpm.
 
keys2pines said:
Oh, and I dropped the timing to 32, it was at 36. Might try to bring it back up and see if it picks up rpm.
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My old notes say go back to 36 and try 38. But Hdsadey is right, give it time to settle first before changing anything. Just don't give it too much time, you don't want her to settle on old lady going to church mode.

My experience with automotive EFI systems is about 30 miles of driving is pretty settled. Call it an hour of training. I would force the tune with 5-10 minutes of steady state RPMS (2,000 2,500 2,800) and then go aggressive on the throttle. You don't want to train it to be a Pu66y motor. It's just like training a new puppy, give it a day or two to get used to the smell of the place, then you gotta show em who the boss is real quick so they are forever scared shirtless of you and react when you say do it, no matter how big they grow. They are all stupid animals just looking to please.
 
Slidin Gator said:
My old notes say go back to 36 and try 38. But Hdsadey is right, give it time to settle first before changing anything. Just don't give it too much time, you don't want her to settle on old lady going to church mode.

My experience with automotive EFI systems is about 30 miles of driving is pretty settled. Call it an hour of training. I would force the tune with 5-10 minutes of steady state RPMS (2,000 2,500 2,800) and then go aggressive on the throttle. You don't want to train it to be a Pu66y motor. It's just like training a new puppy, give it a day or two to get used to the smell of the place, then you gotta show em who the boss is real quick so they are forever scared shirtless of you and react when you say do it, no matter how big they grow. They are all stupid animals just looking to please.
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That is by far, the best explanation of tuning I've ever read :lol: . This system is supposed to continually learn, but does most of it in the first 200 miles, so probably 5-8 hours of driving. Once I realized that it would stumble on sharp throttle changes, I actually was doing what you said and run it harder. I probably did 5 dead stop WOT runs, did a bunch of letting off then stabbing the gas. I was trying to get it to learn to adjust for that. It was hard to tell what was happening because the AFR would go dead rich 10.0, then shoot to 20, then settle at 12.5 once it got going. I think it was putting too much fuel, then cutting back too much. It's fine though, I'm going to be patient for a few more hours, data log, then start tweaking. According to the fuel burn rate at 27mph, I was getting 3.5mpg. :usa:
 
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