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Subject:Re: Instant horsepower (Pinwheel)
From:David Beierl
Date:Mon, 8 May 2000 10:33:33 -0400

Don't confuse me with facts!  <g>

david

At 00:05 5/8/2000, Mark Drillock wrote:
>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"

David Beierl - Providence, RI
  http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
'85 GL "Poor Relation"