Re: Sand Mountain and Scouts and a problem

[Steve Stegmann <stegmann@domain.elided>]

John,

The Holley fuel injection also has a rev limiter function.  At least in
the Di version.  It's one of the parameters you set.  It also has a
feature that allows it to be connected to the oil pressure switch.  If the
oil pressure fails it limits the engine to 2500 rpm.  I don't know if
these features are on your version

Steve
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On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, John Hofstetter wrote:

> Digesters,
> Spent the long weekend at Sand Mountain, Nevada east of Fallon on
> Highway 50, "the loneliest highway in America". 
> 
> Had a great time. Didn't try climbing the giant dune with the Scout,
> but while son and friends did that with Quads and Dune Buggies, we did
> ghost towns and the wonderful War Canyon trip in the Clan Alpine
> mountains. 
> 
> Saw a lot of Scouts in Nevada and as could be expected, I think, they
> tended to suffer very little from rust, but many looked well used, so
> to speak.  Saw an 800 with a spring over, I think Dana 44's front and
> rear, and a driver whose girth made me look slender. Saw that Scout at
> the AM/PM in Fallon and wondered if that person is a digester?  Pretty
> obvious that this Scout travels a lot of adventure trails. 
> 
> There was a Dodge Power Wagon with paddle tires front and rear that
> went about everywhere on the mountain, so I have no doubts that my
> Terra would do as well, including getting high centered on the ridge
> of the dune. Took some doing to get that big pickup off its high
> center. I got my SSII high centered on a dune at Pismo Beach one time,
> and it took a flock,   herd,   pride,   gaggle,  NO TROOP of Boy
> Scouts who were hiking through to push the SSII on over the high
> center. No Boy Scouts on the top of Sand Mountain, so a group effort
> of guys crossing the ridge was required to tip the Dodge on down. 
> 
> My Terra and its Pro-jection EFI performed flawlessly in the Clan
> Alpine high elevations and also in the return over the Sierras via
> Highway 4, one of the steepest and highest passes over the mountains
> between California and Nevada.  Based on the next paragraph, you'll
> see that this flawlessness occurred because I seldom ask my 345 to
> exceed 3000 rpm. 
> 
> Interesting problem first pointed out by Allan E. when he drove my
> Terra from Death Valley to Tulare for me. The darn thing completely
> cuts out at 3000 rpm. It's as if it had a governor on it. You can be
> going downhill with very little gas demand, and at 3000 rpm, it cuts
> out. You can be going up a heck of a steep grade, accelerating very
> well, and at 3000 rpm, it is as if a governor cut off the ignition. I
> think I'll call MSD today, and see what they have to suggest. The MSD
> had a 6000 rpm rev limiter in it because none of the choices that came
> with the unit were appropriate, but I took that out and there is no
> limiter in the unit now.  Hmmmmmmmmmm. 
> 
> John H.
> 
> 
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