The Dominator can be used in all sorts of applications that stretch from daily-driven street machines to extreme high-end race applications.
That blueprint eventually became Holley’s top-of-the-heap Dominator® EFI vehicle management system (VMS). So, Holley laid out a strategy that would incorporate an easy-to-use interface and, at the same time, include a number of tuning features for a wide range of engine combinations (keeping in mind their EFI system could be used to control normally aspirated engines, nitrous engines, turbo engines, supercharged engines, and so on). Instead, Holley figured a good EFI system had to be easy for the beginner to understand and set up.Ĭonversely, Holley engineers knew full-well that more experienced, professional tuners will want a lot of specialized features. The company didn’t want to get into the situation where a pro engine tuner had to be flown-in to set up the system or a scenario where you were forced to tow the car to a specialized shop. Holley decided to address two of the key issues with an EFI conversion: ease of use and full-featured functionality. Holley’s New Take on Electronic Fuel Injection Click here if you’d like to skip to Part Two. Note: This is Part One of a two-part article on Holley’s Dominator EFI Management System. It didn’t help from a tuning perspective and it certainly didn’t make them more user-friendly either. Certainly there were improvements and added features that developed along the way, but for the most part, they were all pretty much the same base system. He took his knowledge from one company to another.
It should come as no surprise however, that some of the early systems were a bit complex-you had to know your way around a laptop computer to make the thing function, and even then many of the systems weren’t exactly user-friendly.įurther, many of the first aftermarket systems were actually designed by the same guy.
It’s no secret that aftermarket electronic fuel injection (EFI) systems are becoming more and more commonplace.