

| Subject: | Re: Instant horsepower (Pinwheel) |
| From: | Mark Drillock |
| Date: | Sun, 7 May 2000 21:05:13 -0700 |
The 86 BMW fuel injection is a pulsed system also. The Motronic parts are very familiar to anyone who has a Digifant system. BMW did not use the CIS system as far as I know. I have owned several 6 cylinder BMWs from a 77 530i on and they all had pulsed injection. Mark Drillock 87 Syncro Camper, 5 Cylinder CIS injection 86 BMW 325E 320,000 miles, great car still 90 BMW 325I 140,000 miles 82 Westy Diesel David Beierl wrote: > > 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 > http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ > '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage" > '85 GL "Poor Relation"
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