

| 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"
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