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Subject:Re: Sequential vs batch RE: digifant injection
From:Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Date:Mon, 6 Apr 2009 21:36:53 -0700

wow, that's saying something .........
if you consider it toke-worthy to have discovered after all this time that
it doesn't matter which injector wire you plug onto which injector on a
waterboxer vanagon engine.
You can also see it in the wiring diagrams,
for example on page 97.106...........
it shows one white wire connecting pin 12 of the ECU to all four injectors.
As long as we know they don't digitize or 'can-bus' 4 signals  on that one
wire ( which they don't of course ) ....it shows right there that the ECU
fires the 4 injectors as one big injector.  And it does it by supplying
ground to them to energize them, like one big four-part injector.

and it would be shocking to think something worked one way for 20 years,
only to discover after all that time it's different than you thought !
Welcome to 2009 - lol !    :-)
Scott
www.turbovans.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Zeitgeist" <gruengeist@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: Sequential vs batch RE: digifant injection

> Ya know, I've been tinkering with these beasties for over twenty years,
> and
> this is the first I've heard of L-Jet and Digifant being "batch-fire"
> injected...so, does that mean that you could swap the injection plugs
> between cylinders and there'd be no difference?  Wow, that's
> mind-boggling.
> It's like you've exposed Santa, the easter bunny and Area 51 all at
> once...I'm deflated.  I need a drink...or a toke...damn
>
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:05 PM, pdooley <psdooley@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> Even with sequential fuel injection, intake valve opening events happen
>> so
>> fast that by 2-3k rpm the injector is spraying part of the fuel on closed
>> intake valves anyway.  The fuel just doesn't have that much time to pool.
>>
>> Sequential is good for emissions and improves economy slightly.  If you
>> spend much time in traffic or light cruise, this may be a good upgrade.
>>
>> For max power, a batch fire system is just as good as sequential.
>>
>
> --
> Casey
> '87 300TD
> '94 100CSQ Avant
> '89 Bluestar