[Diy_efi] timeframe to get equal fuel distribution

[Mike]

bmeps a lot higher,
and perhaps proportional gains wouldnt make it
commercially and emissions compelling in combination...

rgds

mike



At 05:40 PM 3/16/03 +1200, you wrote:
>
>----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Wade" <espresso_doppio at yahoo.com>
>To: "List for general do-it-yourself EFI talk" <diy_efi at diy-efi.org>
>Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 5:30 PM
>Subject: Re: [Diy_efi] timeframe to get equal fuel distribution
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>> --- Bevan Weiss <kaizen__ at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Which cars are using GDI (gasoline direct
>> > injection)??
>>
>> http://alflash.narod.ru/D4.htm
>>
>> Nissan, Mitsubishi, Toyota (Denso system).
>> Supposedly, Mitsu plans on replacing all port
>> injection with GDI eventually.
>>
>> Apparently Volvo had a car with a Mitsu GDI.
>>
>> Renault has used the Siemens/Bosch system in some
>> Meganes.
>>
>> Delphi has a system, but I can't find whose cars it is
>> used in.
>>
>> > (also what's the cost for the injectors?)
>>
>> That I can't help you with.  Are they even available
>> outside of OE Tier 1 and 2 levels?  GDI doesn't seem
>> to serve a lot of purpose without very specific ECU
>> power, software, combustion chamber design, etc...  It
>> doesn't appear that it would be a lot of use to a
>> hobbyist.  Reading up on the Bosch/Siemens system,
>> there's not even anything you could modify witout
>> making a LOT of things worse.
>
>It would also seem that for some reason turbo engines aren't suited to GDI.
>Or at least from the statistics of current manufacturer releases.  It would
>seem that all the economy cars are going to GDI, and many of the upmarket
>models (ie lexus etc).  However any sport performance cars seem to not
>include GDI in the range...
>
>I'd have thought that it'd be something that you'd want to put on everything
>that you possibly could.  Although maybe the higher intake pressures with
>turbo engines makes it inpractical.
>
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