[Diy_efi] sequential injection timing

Mark clay0052 at umn.edu
Wed Jul 31 08:29:43 GMT 2002


On 31 Jul 2002, bill.shurvinton at nokia.com wrote:
> Oops language again. Being a limey and it being 1am when I wrote that I =
> was not being totally sensitive to transatlantic idiom. However the =
> liberal use of :-) should have indicated I was not being serious.

Sorry, didn't catch the :-)'s.

> As for breaking rules I was trying to point out that even a fairly hoopy
=
> V8 will have low overlap compared to a sports bike out the showroom =
> (talking streetable here). Yet they start and idle well, are tractable =
> at low RPM and scream up to the stratosphere whilst getting reasonable =
> gas mileage. This really shouldn't happen. They should buck and fart at =
> idle and self destruct after a few pulls to 12K. No-one told the =
> designers that, so they don't.=20
> 
> They also fit very nicely in 1000lb cars

Ya, I always liked the high revs of little bike engines, even if they
aren't making that much power. I worked on a CBR250 for a while, and loved
the sound of it, as it would rev to 19,000 rpm. Not ultra fast but sounded
cool.

cheers,
mark


 :-)=20
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Mark Claywell [mailto:clay0052 at umn.edu]
> Sent: 31 July 2002 01:30
> To: diy_efi at diy-efi.org; diy_efi at diy-efi.org
> Subject: Re: [Diy_efi] sequential injection timing
> 
> 
> 
> Wow, you guys are sensitive. No jap bikes don't break all the rules. =
> Merely
> mentioned them as they have ports that are fairly lazy in velocity at =
> lower
> revs, with high overlap. This I stated (albeit not explicity enough) as =
> an
> example of something that often responds very well to open valve =
> injection.
> 
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