holley hp efi install
I have a 93 and don't know if a 95 is the same fuel pump wiring but per 93 FSM it is ckt #465 Dark green/white wire from the ECM connection D7.
Why are you going with the Holley ECM, did you ECM fail, or is it for control of Nitro or another reason, thanks for the answers in advance and good luck on your project.
I have a 93 and don't know if a 95 is the same fuel pump wiring but per 93 FSM it is ckt #465 Dark green/white wire from the ECM connection D7.
Why are you going with the Holley ECM, did you ECM fail, or is it for control of Nitro or another reason, thanks for the answers in advance and good luck on your project.
Last edited by 95PCTBK; May 23, 2014 at 03:49 PM.
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Had to go into the Opti, so we figured it was time to do it right. Installed the HP and wired it into the rest of the car. I got the unterminated system and we used the Holley wiring for the engine and sensors. The only modification we made to the harness was for the power supply. We swapped the relay and fuse so that it was closer to the battery, instead of closer to the ECM.
We control the HP from a modified Opti wheel. I got the Opti from Petris Enterprises and Lane Culver was the man doing the math to make the opti wheel work with the Holley unit. I've driven the car around a bit and can say that the Holley HP is an amazing improvement. Being able to tune it on the fly and even allowing it to tune itself is MUCH better, especially if you've modified your car. We're using the HP to control lockup in the trans as well. I've got a 700r4, so it's TV cable driven, the HP only controls TCC. If I had an electronic trans, the Dominator would have been the unquestionable choice. Took a little bit of tweaking, but I really like where it's set right now.
We had a crank trigger on the front of the engine, but it was SO close to the steering rack that I needed to slide the belts sideways to get it between the rack and the trigger wheel. Using the Opti to drive the HP gave us so much more room to work up there and cleaned up the install greatly. We also used a single MSD coil with the HP directing the spark via the factory GM ignition module. It works fine.
Only hangup was we were getting an issue trying to run it in full sequential mode, as the cam sensor was giving us fits. We went to "untimed sequential" and it works fine. Still trying to find out what the issue is there.
We dyno'd the car at Culver Automotive Specialties and it wrangled out 434hp at the wheels. Not too bad for my little 85.
Last edited by odxr; Apr 29, 2016 at 01:54 AM.
We're using the opti sensors for timing and for firing. We installed the Petris Enterprises opti that is modified to use the later style ventilation. I think this helps greatly in keeping the distributor cooler and for longevity. We'll see.
I know the Holley HP system can use a DIS system or various other means of firing each cylinder, and they have their benefits as well. We chose to use the factory-style ignition, including a single coil and the ignition module. It works fine.
As for the wiring, we used an all-new harness supplied by Holley. Since my application has some quirky placements of parts like the throttle body, I chose to go with the unterminated harness and then trim to fit. The nice part was that it came with all the necessary terminals and connectors, you just need to put them on. Wires are clearly laid out in the schematic, and I spent a few minutes putting the various sensor wires together before installing the harness and trimming to length. Only thing was pairing up the 5v reference wire and ground(s) necessary for the sensors. Not a big deal.
When it came to wiring the new ecm to the rest of the car, we accomplished that right at the connectors under the dash. We used the connectors that were already there (right by the factory ecu) and tapped into the particular wires that were still to be utilized. It was a bit intimidating at first. But with a service manual and Chris pulling me back from the edge a few times, it really is pretty straightforward. Overthinking it was my biggest enemy. I went through and made a diagram of each connector and what each wire did. Then, we matched up the wires from the HP that needed to control something in one of those wires.
One thing that Chris suggested that varied from the original Holley harness is that we pulled the injector power from the heavy power cable for the ecu and instead used the original power wires in the original connector for the injector power. This is a fused circuit already and there are two different wires, so we just used one wire for each bank. This way, the fuel pump is on the original Holley fuse and relay, while the injectors are on separate fuses up in the fuse panel.
Here's a photo of the HP wired into the original harness connectors. You can see how many wires were not used from the original harness compared to how many come from the HP. We used the factory dash and all systems work fine, save for the average fuel mileage and range. Oil, tach, water, etc. all work fine. Well, except that my gauge panel needs some help from Batee! LOL! Will work on that next. We did have to run wires for the speedo, since they disappeared with the old harness.
Last edited by C5rider; Apr 29, 2016 at 10:02 AM.

Just thought maybe someone might come across this thread looking for info and wanted to make their search a little easier.
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