360 block limits
You talk about all this ability but I see guys giving up on fuel injection or taking it to someone to tune THEIR car. What good is that. Maybe ok for a street cruiser that keeps his hands off stuff but most of us don’t. I’ve never had to have a guy come tune my carb for me and then retune it after I add some more horsepower or a different cam I’ve been itching to try. Ohhh wait I can’t go racing this weekend I have to take my car to the dynojet to get a tune done on it. Lmao.
I'm not discounting your observations and it's true that the learning curve of EFI is steeper than with a carburetor.
There is a lot to learn to get EFI to run. A lot of people make mistakes within initial startup and getting base tune parameters.. It takes some time and knowledge to get a good configuration compared to a "bolt on and drive away" carburettor.
But after your base tune is sorted, dialing in for wide open throttle is easily the quickest and easiest part of EFI tuning. It's the "driving around town" stuff that gets fiddly.
All modern ECUs have onboard datalogging so there's no strict necessity for dyno time.
You can make a run, play it back, make observations and implement any desired changes accordingly.
Specifically in the last 5 years the resources needed to learn to calibrate EFI have become much more widely available and affordable.
Having a small amount of experience with engine management calibration I found a website called "high performance academy" which offers webinars and instructional videos which have been extremely helpful and have allowed me to expand my knowledge in leaps and bounds.
I do like carburettors for their simplicity, but the more I learn about EFI calibration the more apparent it becomes that the difference between tuning with a laptop and tuning with jets or metering rods is like the difference between a scalpel and a hammer.
I'm 36 years old, what I've found is that guys 10yrs younger than me overwhelmingly aren't interested in carburetors at all because there are too many limitations, and guys 10rs older than me overwhelmingly aren't interested in learning to tune/install EFI at all because they're too complex or cost prohibitive.
