Idle air control hardware

[Mike Morrin]

Walter,

Thanks for the suggestions,

I will see what I can find.  I have a few ideas for making my own, but they
will require an amount of fiddly mechanical work.

regards,

Mike

At 01:16 AM 8/16/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Mike,
>don't know about Japanese, but Mercedes V8's had a nice setup 
>in the 80's that you might be able to find at a junk yard.
>It's an idle air valve with it's own ecu. Has inputs for
>idle (you'd need to add a switch), A/C clutch signal and
>engine oil temp (you'd need to use this sensor).
>
>The problem would be to convert the twelve ignition
>pulses to eight.
>
>There was also a Mercedes 280 (6 cyl) but I don't know
>if they had the same idle control system. If they did,
>and you have the Marelli twin coil ignition, it should
>work if you use the ecu from the 280 and the valve from 
>the Mercedes 500.
>
>Another, maybe better source might be an L-jet 6 cyl BMW
>like the 528.  
>
>  Walter     
>
>Mike Morrin wrote:
>> 
>> For my Jag V12 project, I would like to have ECU control over idle speed.
>> The original Bosch/Lucas EFI used a mechanical valve driven by a wax bulb
>> in the water rail.  Something more sophisticated seems to be in order.
>> 
>> I would like to know what the junk-yard options are.  In this country there
>> are no Detroit iron lumps in the junkyards,  are there any Japanese engines
>> which are suitable donors?
>> 
>> How much would new hardware from the US cost?
>> 
>> Any other suggestions?
>> 
>> TIA
>> 
>> Mike
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