Quote Originally Posted by 1project2many View Post
Some of the cam advice may be left over from the old days. Slower processors and early code didn't play as well with a big cam. Rapid intake pressure spikes would trigger acceleration enrichment and rapid timing changes, rich exhaust would drive short term and long term fuel toward the lean extreme, engine speed would start hunting, and it would create a cycle
with the old slow ECMS i had usually run open loop, disable AE, lock down timing outside of operating range, and just do my best. results have been really good and 'better than a carb n points' but definitely not economical, but it's the customers fault for not wanting to swap to an ECM that doesn't suck. 'not playing well' i think was just people not doing a good job, sometimes doing a good job is simplifying a crappy system until it behaves