DIY_EFI Digest V1 #256

[Dirk Wright]

On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Tony Bryant wrote:
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> 
> How about the real mechanical FI systems? Like off a '69 Mercedes coupe. 
> No I'm not talking about K-Jet, I talking something that looks like a 
> diesel fuel pump/distributor. I've only seen it in a workshop manual. 
> 
> Anybody with any experience with these, care to comment?

There was a SPICA system on my old '74 Alfe Romero that looked like 
that. I did figure out how to adjust it, but of course, I was too 
unimformed at the time to buy the shop manual. As I understand it, they 
use very high pressure to the injectors. Higher pressure would make for 
finer atomization if the nozzle is designed right. Of course, the 
BMW2002tii used Kugel-Fischer (sp?) mechanical injection. I'm guessing, 
but I think most electronic FI use lower pressures because it would take 
too much electrical current to unseat the pintle of the injector in order 
to open it. 

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Dirk Wright 					            wright at uspto.gov
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