Eric's cam challenge
Here's what Tuner had to say:
I thought is was odd he said the timing would be unchanged and nothing was said (or I missed it) about carb tuning. I think it is nuts to change valve timing and not determine if spark advance or jetting needs to be at least examined with customary plus and minus testing.
While I agree with what he said, it doesn’t change the results or the fact that everyone knew the rules going in.
They ALL knew he wasn’t going to change a jet or pick up a timing light. That’s what the rules were.
I’m not sure they even had a curve in the timing. I suspect it was locked out but I don’t recall if Eric said one way or another.
Would tuning on it have made a difference? I suspect it would. Big to make the leap that DV would go from 14th to 1st with tuning is pretty far fetched.
He’d have to pick up power and no one else find any power while tuning for their cams.
There may have been some shuffling of the order (I still haven’t seen the final order that I can actually read) but I doubt anyone would have made that kind of leap with tuning.
I mean you can spend a ton of time finding the actual ICL it wants for every cam but you’d have to assume that where the cam was installed was pretty wrong to make a big enough difference to matter.
You could also play with the timing curve too but at some point you have to say the test is what it is and that’s good enough.
I know the types who think there is the perfect test. That’s a lie. There is always some compromise in testing.