GreyMarket was Coil Quest Over (or just postponed?)

[David Piper]

Does anyone what happened to BAE?  I wud like to get their casting/info on
their Datsun 280Z turbo kit.

TurboDave

At 10:45 AM 10/26/97 +0000, you wrote:
>> Date:          Tue, 02 Jun 1998 18:14:27 -0500
>> From:          Walter Petermann <corsaro at brokersys.com>
>> To:            diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu
>> Subject:       Re: Coil Quest Over (or just postponed?)
>> Reply-to:      diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu
>
>I also worked in Grey Market 84-88 and 93-present.
>I worked for Exotic Engineering at Azle Labs in Texas
>and Ocean State Lab in RI. Now at lab in NewYork.
>The boxes I used were first Johnson then Nuetronics
>and some G.Fenn boxes.  I am now building boxes for
>German G-Cat market.
>By Jag. V12 trick was a bypass needle valve in pressure sensor
>line to richen the fireball lean burn head.
>Also put a cat on a M1 and watched it spit out glowing chunks.
>Passed many XJ6 with straight egr into aircleaner, airpump, 4 cats
>and no O2 computer.
>Converting and setting up countach with dual Kjets was interesting.
>Alex
>> 
>> PS I guess I have never introduced myself...
>> I used to work in the 'gray market' auto import business in
>> the eighties. I designed and built the controlers to
>> interface oxygen sensors with whatever fuel system the car
>> had K-jet,L-jet,Motronic etc. 
>> It was a great job. Some of the more bizarre early
>> experiments:
>> 
>> Building a variable voltage supply (controlled by the O2
>> sensor)
>> for the electric fuel pump...Bad idea.
>> 
>> Disabling 4 evenly spaced injectors on a V12 for~30sec
>> during cold start
>> to use them as air pumps. Worked great, not sure about
>> consequences to the engine though...
>> 
>> Now I'm rebuilding Lucas electronics for Jags. It's not too
>> exciting,
>> but it has potential for growth.
>> 
>> Since I stumbled onto the diy_efi group I have started to
>> ask myself a lot of 'what if' questions
>> again! So I look forward to following this ION project and
>> will try to avoid the 'how many inches to a foot'
>> questions that someone mentioned.
>> 
>> Here's my web site:
>> 
>> www.brokersys.com/~corsaro
>> 
>> 
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