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Subject:Re: Instant horsepower (Pinwheel)
From:David Beierl
Date:Sun, 7 May 2000 22:09:43 -0400

At 21:37 5/7/2000, Terry Kay wrote:
>The point was, if I can simply add a computer chip, and gain some 20
>horses why can't I do it to  1.9 VW?

The major reason probably is that the L-Jetronic aka Digijet injection
system is a pulsed rather than continuous-flow system, and as such is not
very amenable to fiddling with.  See discussion in _Bosch Fuel Injection &
Engine Management_, Charles Probst; Robert Bentley, Publisher,
1991.  Available from Bus Depot and direct from Bentley, among others.

cheers
david
David Beierl - Providence, RI
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