How to Tune & Modify Engine Management Systems by Jeff Hartman http://www.motorbooks.com



Doug from Hondata was skimming through the book and thought it was worth a read, at the Hondata Seminar. Ive skimmed through it roughly and its pretty detailed on theory and tuning different standalones, even talks about ghettodyne This book talks about everything we learned in EFI 101 class as well, probably more in depth. Must buy at $18.08 plus shipping from the walmart site. Amazon probably has it too, but when i searched, Walmart was the cheapest.
Book mentions Hondata a lot, even thou Doug was surprised they were in the book. Bob Norwood pics are plenty in the book. This will sit next to my Maximum Boost book from now on

Here are the chapters in the book:

1 - Understanding Fuel Delivery
2 - Understanding Automotive Computers and PROMs
3 - Sensors
4 - Actuators and Actuator Systems
5 - Hot Rodding EFI Engines
6 - Recalibrating Factory ECUs
7 - Interceptors and Auxiliary Computers
8 - Standalone Programmable Engine Management Systems
9 - EMS/EFI Engine-Swapping
10 - Roll-Your-Own EFI
11 - Installation and Startup Issues
12 - Designing, Modifying, and Building Intake Manifolds
13 - EMS Tuning 101
14 - EMS Troubleshooting
15 - Emissions and Onboard Diagnostics
16 - Project Vehicles

This was released end of January 2004.

 

wow, looks like an interesting read

 

What systems does it cover?

 

dang... let me know more about the book and what it covers.. sounds like a really good book to get

 

very interesting. is EFIGUY still working on his?
-Roger

 

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Ben's book should be out soon, he kept saying this spring so.....

 

OH NOOOOQQ I think i see a TEC II interface on the cover haha. Damn I tried to forget about that sytem!!

 

DAMN, whens Ben's book coming out? I guess I can read both!

 

thanks mucho for the tip on that tuning book, it looks like an interesting read.

now here's a tip in return: you won't have much need to look at "maximum boost" again, after reading "forced induction performance tuning" by a. graham bell, copyright 2002.

those old turbo tomes all have value, even "turbochargers" by hugh macinnes has good info in it... but a. graham bell covers material that you cannot find anywhere else.

 

i'll be sure to pick a copy up of that, thanx danimal

Some standalones that are covered: Accel, Apexi Power FC, Autronic. DTA. AEM EMS, Edelbrok Pro Flow, Electromotive TEC3, EFI Technology, HKS FCON V Pro, FAST, Haltech, Hondata, Holley Commander 950, Link, Perfect Power PRS, Motec, SDS.

These are just talked about in a chart to show their functions. Skimming thru book i dont think there is really a section where they go over a specific standalone and explain how to tune it.

Another great book i purchased recently was How to Build, Modify and Power Tune Cylinder Heads by Peter Burgess and David Gollan (2003 i think).

 

I agree, I've read the book, and it's definitely worthwhile reading. Hartman is local here in Dallas, that's why you see so much reference to Norwood in there. It doesn't specifically go into how to tune a particular system, but rather how fuel injection works and what does what. If you understand that, then it's just a matter of figuring out how to navigate through each particular system. I always see people asking about ben's class, and what system it's about. It doesn't work that way most of the time. If you understand the fundamentals then you can tune any system.

 

It covers a little bit of a lot of the modern standalone systems out on the market, but nothing in-depth about any one of them. The Motec gets a lot of mention, for obvious reasons.

There are useful equations....much more so than in the book by Graham Bell.

There are 12 project vehicles. Starting with a small-block Chevy into an older Jag, nitrous'd CRX, turbo'd CRX, 1.8T, and the MR2 project covered in SCC a long time ago with Alamo's and Norwood's help.

I think it's a very worthwhile book especially since it doesn't cost much for the volume of info in it.

 

gotta like that $18 price tag! the graham bell book is a nice hardcover that you pay dearly for, i'd rather have paid less for a softcover version... different animals, tho, an efi book vs. turbo books.

with "maximum boost" i felt like i paid $$$ to read advertising for corkey bell products... like, why take up so much space for the aerocharger? and how about more than just half a page of info on turbo camshaft design??

the turbo math has already been covered in other books, and with the advent of the internet, there are turbo formulas at our fingertips.

one thing that's hard to find is the real theory behind turbo camshaft design, stuff like how you need to know the pressure difference across a turbo, especially on a street car... graham bell covers some of that in his book.

i've never seen a thread anywhere on the internet where somebody has tested the effects of camshaft changes on the pressure differential across a turbo.

 

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That might be something Rocket could help answer for u

 

if anybody is interested i would highly rec. EFI.101 university!!! i have attended this school to learn more about tuning on my dyno. BEN is the guy you want to talk to he is a genius...... EFI101.com

 

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If that's the case.. I'm very interested.

 

i wonder if this is the same book as the one with the i think its a Bimmer on the front instead of the focus? its got the same name and the same author? anyone see this? i found it on his website

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