Re: Hot Weather, Fuel Injection & 383 Stroker
If you're having issues w/possibly cooking the fuel @ the carb/intake, the LAST thing I would do is any TBI style injection that has the ECU in the throttle body which is where your heat soak issue is. In simpler terms, avoid the Sniper or FITech type set-ups.
I like the Edelbrock Pro-Flo set-up. The buy-in price is pretty good considering you get an intake, throttle body, injectors, ignition, w/a remote mounted ECU & Bluetooth control capability. But, the caveat is refined tuning after that basic set-up is not readily available. Whether you need that tuning is a coin flip. It's easy to believe the logic of all you need to do is input the specifics & the computer uses pre-set mapping w/similar range of input data for your 'tune' & then the computer uses the data from the sensors to put things in range from there. It's not always that simple. If you have an issue & aren't good (knowledgeable) @ making the tweaks, you may not make it better; you could EASILY make it much worse.
Holley's higher end set-ups have similar features as the ProFlo-4 but initial purchase is ~1k higher. They also have aftermarket tuning support from tuners who do tuning for a living all across the country.
The after install/after driving tweaking is where you have to ask yourself the 'what's most important' question. I'm struggling w/this as well. The Edelbrock sure seems it would work well for me. But if it doesn't, I'm relying on some guy on the phone to help me vs. a tuner connecting into the logic & tuning w/his tools/experience from the data he reads.
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