Chris & FB, welcome back to the 'PROCESS'! 
Woody, I know of few people who understand the meaning of "process" better than you.
But Harold's quote both haunts and encourages me -
"Problems are almost always a sign of progress".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaC4SjHJEx0And it's fair to say that not much happened today.
The K fired right up this morning, but every time Tommy tried to install a "learned table output" section from the datalog into the fuel map, the idle would either take off or the thing would die.
At about 10:00, I changed out the sparkplugs from the Iridium NGKs to a set of splitfires, but Tommy's not convinced the spark is 100% and questioned the dwell the program was putting into the ignition algorhythm. We continued to struggle until lunch, and I said I'd get us in the que on the Holley Helpline when we got back.
Part of the "Process" - beyond needing to confirm and be sure of every change we make along the way - is to wait our turn in line.
At 1:34 this afternoon, I called the Holley Hotline and listened to the Muzak - some predictably ponderous Tennesee blues guitar riffs with all the soul of a Kraftwerk composition - while Tom took care of other in-house issues at the shop. 20 minutes in, our phone-tech picked up and I handed the phone off to Tommy. The tech was in over his head and said he'd put us through to engineering - which put us on hold again. At 35:59, the Muzak mercifully went away - which indicated that the Holley Helpline had hung up on us.
I called them back at 2:13, scrolled through the menu and jumped back into the que. After two hand-offs, the advice we received said that a wasted spark set-up wouldn't work on our system. I thought that odd, because while the system hasn't worked particularily well, it was constructed with parts recommended two years ago by other folks
at the same phone number - and it's not like we were
unable to get the engine running.
The takeaway is this - The Midget's going to Bonneville this September. I've got a set of LS coils coming in either tomorrow or Thursday which we will use and see if it makes a difference.
Because this is the direction that the techs are most familiar with, it's my hope that by forking over the extra cash on an upgrade - and making the setup more like an LS - we'll be able to mine Holley's incomplete information datafield, rather than trying to find the one guy who knows how to make the system in place work correctly.
DSCN1288 by
Chris Conrad, on Flickr
Oh, and after 1:36:42, we never did find out what the dwell should be.
