Accel enrichment
Shannen Durphey
shannen at mcn.net
Thu Mar 26 05:56:18 GMT 1998
Ludis Langens wrote:
> Raymond C Drouillard <cosmic.ray at juno.com> wrote:
> > Well... after considerable thought, it's quite simple! <:)
> >
> > When you suddenly open the throttle, a lot of air suddenly rushes into
> > the manifold. You need to inject enough fuel for that air. How much
> > will depend on the vacuum before and after, and the volume of the
> > manifold.
>
> Yes, of course. But - GM appears to inject even more fuel above and
> beyond what that air should need. The normal speed-density calculations
> should provide the matching fuel for that air. However, when the ECM
> sees a sudden opening of the TB, or a sudden increase in MAP, it starts
> asynchronously injecting additional fuel by pulsing the injector(s) at
> 160 Hz.
>
> The normal synchronous injection occurs when there is a reference pulse
> (from the ignition module.) If the ECM's sensor inputs change before
> the next reference pulse, the ECM can change it's mind as to the
> injector pulse width.
>
> The asynchronous injection happens _right_now_. The injector pulse
> width is clipped to a duration of less than 1/160th of a second. If the
> called for duration was longer than this limit, the remainder is saved
> for the next 160 Hz cycle. Further, this async injection is cumulative
> - as long as the ECM sees a rising TPS or MAP, it will keep adding to
> the pending duration. And if the TB suddenly snaps closed, any pending
> async fuel will still be injected.
>
> [The above applies to SD applications, but MAF should be similar.]
>
> unsigned long BinToBCD(unsigned long i) {unsigned long t;
> Ludis Langens return i ? (t = BinToBCD(i >> 1), (t << 1) + (i & 1) +
> ludis at cruzers.com (t + 858993459 >> 2 & 572662306) * 3) : 0;}
Just a thought, some GM SD systems have no intake air temp sensor. Maybe
xtra fuel makes up for possible sudden drop in air temp?
Shannen
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