DIY_EFI Digest V4 #573

[Ade + Lamb Chop]

At 05:00 11/10/99 -0400, DIY_EFI Digest wrote:
>Or - altitude could be faked out by reading the MAP while the engine is 
>stopped.  Then you could account for it.  Of course this assumes that the 
>car is stopped every once in awhile (probbaly a reasonable thing).  I know 
>for a fact that some outboard marine engine controllers do this.

Outboard engines are FI???? Wow!! Things have changed in the past 5 years.
Why would they do this? Manufacturers are still putting ECUs in the engine
bay of cars. This is a pretty nasty place for electronics. I can see the
reason for putting FI in cars as it improves fuel ecconomy and power along
with controling the fuel so that it doesn't clog the CAT. But why on a
small outboard engine? Surely you would want to keep the thing as simple as
possible using NO electronics as Sea water isn't electronics freindly by
any means.

Coments?

Ade