DIY_EFI Digest V5 #104 / CFI

[Ken Thompson]

From: Kevin Jaeger   kjaeger at superflow.com.au

Clair,

I was with you Re your comments on "stoic", but K-Jet is a diabolically ugly
mouse trap. It does not like the slightest contamination when in a Mercedes
Benz car and therefore would hate your boat. Tuning will not be very easy.

I guess one can get away with a lot on land (in a car), where the ecu lives
in the kick panel, away from corrosion. The same exposed GM ecu in a boat
would not live long at all. A friend who I have heard mentioned here on a
number of occasions, builds 1,500 HP boats, I refer to Ray Hall
www.turbofast.com.au Now in this situation, money is no object so the ecu
does not get wet and it stays cool and if the boat crashes and sinks, they
build another one.

I would think a LUCAS system off of a British Triumph, would do the trick
for you. Some mods would be required but "Kinsler Fuel Injection" of
Michigan will have parts.

I think there is still a place for carbies in this world and you situation
is a likely candidate.

I am sure that we could make for you a beautifully designed induction
system, set up a Marinised Motec M8 and build you the greatest wiring loom
known to man, at a cost.

In Australia the wreckers do no want Triumphs fitted with LUCAS systems,
you'd have to pay the wrecker to take the car. Rigging up a LUCAS system
would be much easier than K-Jet and is certainly much more compact. I
wouldn't know a Corvair if I fell over one, but I think that the Triumph
butterfly sets would be easy to adapt, than Bosch's "fuel / air" valve
system.

Regards,
Kevin.

> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:17:48 -0500
> From: "Clare Snyder" <clare at snyder.on.ca>
> Subject: CFI
>
> Not technically EFI, but FI anyway.
>
> I have a 140 HP Corvair 6 cyl engine that came with 4 carbs. I want to put
> injection on it for airboat/aircraft use. It will run a maximum of
3500RPM,
> putting out (hopefully) about 100-110 HP.
> My thought was to use a 4 cyl Bosch K-Jet type system (most likely K-E)
with
> one injector in each carb inlet port. Any reason this will not work? The
> 'vair is a 2.7 Litre (164 inch) engine.
> What relatively common (in north america) engine of 2 liters or more used
> K-Jet?
>
> Thanks


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