F.I. Tech or Holley sniper. Opinions from users.

Kern Dog said

Can you replace an in tank fuel pump on the side of the road? Can you properly diagnose a faulty hot start issue without a gaggle of electronic diagnostic tools?
If the EFI stuff were more reliable, I'd be more supportive of it. As of now, I see too many cases where it screws up, tech support is either no help or no parts are in the supply chain to fix....Then the owner yanks the system and goes back to a carburetor.

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Yeah I agree at this point in time. It will get better in the future but right now a person needs to have an early adopter mind set to go with EFI. That means being willing to do some trouble shooting if the need comes up. I've done a lot of EFI conversions over the last couple of years and I've run into a lot of problems. Some of them I can figure out and fix, some of them need factory help, some of them the factory can't even fix. The Sniper software is a little sketchy at the moment so sometimes they fail in weird ways that even experts can't fix. The Sniper is also susceptible to RF noise. Most hot rodders don't know what RF noise is or how to fix it so when they run into RF noise issues they are lost.

When I first started using EFI on my own cars I encouraged everyone I knew to switch to EFI. After I saw how some people struggle with things I consider to be really simple I started to change my mind. Now I only recommend EFI to people who have basic computer skills and are interested in learning something new. I don't recommend it to people who can't find a file in a folder on their hard drive. I know one local car builder who has incredible fab skills but he doesn't know how to attach a file to an email. He tried EFI on his hot rod for a few months and then went back to a carb. He was just more comfortable with a carb. He builds some of the nicest cars in the region but EFI was out of his comfort zone. One of the best engine builders in the area is also that way. He loves how EFI runs on his engines, but he refuses to open up the laptop to learn how it works. He has someone else handle that stuff for him. He has convinced himself that he can't learn EFI.