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Old 08-29-2013, 02:12 PM
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I believe we placed a fast EZ system on a Pontiac 455 60 over with Edelbrock heads and a pretty aggressive cam a few years ago (since sold the car)....

The motor/system wanted to stall after aggressive driving and my mechanic was going nuts trying to figure out the problem... In the end he was reading over the manual for the system at lunch one day for the 100th time and went to the chapters in the manual for tuning over 500ci and the specific setting/s in the in the initial setup... He thought well I've tried everything else he could,,, so he just tried tuning for over 500ci in the initial parameters and the motor ran great after that....

BTW I don't know what it is about Pontiac's and fuel injection (as all motors are just air pumps in the end) but every one that I have used fuel injection on has been a major pain in the a$$.... I recently sold/took a 20,000 hit (after the sale price) on a CV-1 headed motor because after two years I was just that pissed off... All the players involved spent more time trying to point to the other and none offered a real solution while the labor bills just kept rolling in to try and make this thing work (never consistently did in two years)...

I had little flashes of the whole thing coming together every once and a while... When it did,, the dam thing just about ripped the tires off the a$$ end of the car and exploded into action... That was constantly followed up by placing my foot into it a mile down the road and the engine laying down.... Personally I'm of the opinion that it'll be a dark day in July before I ever try to run a Pontiac motor in one of my Pro-touring cars again as this last one left me with such a taste in my mouth that I will not soon forget it..... Not the very least to mention the math of a motor built for $25,000 couldn't draw 8,000 in a natural sale and was a challenge to finally sell for 5,000. Pontiac drive lines and Pro-touring = huge hit both in maintenance (as they don't like continuous high RPM) and financial pocket book.....
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