EFI 101

mikecentola · #1 (**permalink**) 10-12-2004, 12:30 PM

Next month, I'm taking the EFI 101 class on tuning fuel injected vehicles. Its supposedly the best class out there for learning how to tune. Hopefully, I'll come out of it with a great basic knowledge, and maybe I'll know whether or not that is what I want to do.

Check it out: www.efi101.com

GSXGreg · #2 (**permalink**) 10-13-2004, 12:21 AM

Looks like it will be a very well done course. Hopefully they give you a lot of hands-on experience.

mikecentola · #3 (**permalink**) 10-13-2004, 07:38 AM

yea i may end up taking the basic class twice and then the advance class, over the next year or so, to make sure that I have the adequate knowledge...

GSXGreg · #4 (**permalink**) 10-13-2004, 09:04 AM

True, once you get some more experience you will probably get more out of the advanced course.

byrollSTi · #5 (**permalink**) 10-15-2004, 01:31 PM

yo, we'll talk this weekend on EMS's. I found a short write up/review in super street on some different system. Maybe it'll shed some light on what is and isn't needed.

mikecentola · #6 (**permalink**) 10-15-2004, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by byrollSTi

yo, we'll talk this weekend on EMS's. I found a short write up/review in super street on some different system. Maybe it'll shed some light on what is and isn't needed.

Sounds good

Moai · #7 (**permalink**) 10-15-2004, 08:49 PM

EFI 101 sounds like a good start.
Def. spend some time chatting it up and nerding around with some good tuners. If you're able to take items such as compressor maps, density ratios, CFM and VE and tie it all together for a specific application, you'll have a lot more to offer than just being able to put the right numbers in the load cells on the EMS systems.
What I want to do is become proficient at designing a proper system to achieve a target power level with certain variables and components...

I.e. when someone says "You should aim for a turbo that is in the middle of its efficiency island at a VE of 0.90-0.95 at around 18-20psi boost pressure", I want to be able to pick a power level that i'm aiming for, size up some components and design the proper system from the turbo to the cams to any headwork that may alter the VE.

ugh so much fun stuff gives me headaches.

mikecentola · #8 (**permalink**) 10-16-2004, 12:17 AM

For the initial stages of my learnation, that is probably a little more in depth that I would get....but yes, eventually that is something that I would get into.

but you have to remember, I'm not always tuning only turbo cars, so getting that specific may not pay off....

Moai · #9 (**permalink**) 10-16-2004, 08:42 AM

well

then you may neglect the density ratio and boost, and instead concentrate on VE... unless you want to get into stuff like intake harmonics that pressurize the intake charge through resonance tuning on really high powered NA cars.

that stuff is MAD complicated. Acousics + Fluid Dynamics + Boundary Layers.

all of a sudden those classes seem to make so much sense

mikecentola · #10 (**permalink**) 10-16-2004, 09:14 AM

haha, damnit, why did I drop dynamics??

wait i know, cause professor scarton was teaching it....

ImprezaRSX · #11 (**permalink**) 10-16-2004, 10:58 AM

is he that stinky guy that confuses himself when teaching?

mikecentola · #12 (**permalink**) 10-18-2004, 10:33 AM

i dont remember if he was stinky or not.