About a month ago I nearly called Summit and purchased the Atomic EFI kit, but I started having second thoughts.
My history with tunable EFI is minimal, many years ago I had an RC51(Honda Motorcycle) That we made some changes to, and I worked with a reputable tuner in Minneapolis to get a custom tune created, and watching that process was amazing. The result was amazing as well. I 'Get IT'.
I really like the Mega Squirt stuff, it’s tun-ability and flexibility is undeniably good. Thing is, I do NOT have the spare time, or the desire to get that deep into creating a custom home-built EFI system. Im not looking to get every last HP out of the motor either, just a solid street car w/occasional autoX and similar hooliganism.
I also have an AMC, so my choices for an EFI system and intakes are limited as compared to what’s available for an LS engine or something more common.
I have been doing as much reading as I could on both systems and it’s obvious both are directly competing with each other.
If I had some resources near by that could build and tune a MegaSquirt system, MPFI intake, etc. for about the same cost as the two our-of-the-box solutions (~$2,300)I would likely consider that, but I don’t have that option.
That leaves the two mentioned options which seem relatively similar.
The Atomic is likely where I’m going to go, I like its simplicity and it’s ability to also control timing.
The EZ-EFI is nice as it a bit more mature, and is more flexible for some improvements that I may want to make down the road.
Am I missing anything in my analysis?
I hope some knowledgable BangShifters will have some interesting insight on this, thanks.
Mike
My history with tunable EFI is minimal, many years ago I had an RC51(Honda Motorcycle) That we made some changes to, and I worked with a reputable tuner in Minneapolis to get a custom tune created, and watching that process was amazing. The result was amazing as well. I 'Get IT'.
I really like the Mega Squirt stuff, it’s tun-ability and flexibility is undeniably good. Thing is, I do NOT have the spare time, or the desire to get that deep into creating a custom home-built EFI system. Im not looking to get every last HP out of the motor either, just a solid street car w/occasional autoX and similar hooliganism.
I also have an AMC, so my choices for an EFI system and intakes are limited as compared to what’s available for an LS engine or something more common.
I have been doing as much reading as I could on both systems and it’s obvious both are directly competing with each other.
If I had some resources near by that could build and tune a MegaSquirt system, MPFI intake, etc. for about the same cost as the two our-of-the-box solutions (~$2,300)I would likely consider that, but I don’t have that option.
That leaves the two mentioned options which seem relatively similar.
The Atomic is likely where I’m going to go, I like its simplicity and it’s ability to also control timing.
The EZ-EFI is nice as it a bit more mature, and is more flexible for some improvements that I may want to make down the road.
Am I missing anything in my analysis?
I hope some knowledgable BangShifters will have some interesting insight on this, thanks.
Mike
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