DIS was caddy-olds and the buick v6

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And you point is?.
If you elect to live there, then do what works there.  I wouldn't run a DIS
there, more out of not being able to clear a flood mode (no min firing 
voltage)...
  What TBI DIS are you thinking about?.
Grumpy


At 05:07 PM 11/11/99 EET, gmecm at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu wrote:
>What I don't like about implementation of the DIS systems (aftermarket ones) 
>is that in cold weather country like Finland I'm living is that if engine 
>must be turned at least one (in some cases two) rounds to fire cylinder 
>first time in that case the battery voltage can be too low to turn engine or 
>give enough fuel pressure or spark to start it!
>
>I remember my brother's Opel Ascona 1.9L bored to 2.0L. He was in army, the 
>ambient had been below -25C at least a week. Well, temp was -35C, he pushed 
>throttle couple of times (at least two weeks from last start), turned the 
>key and engine very slowly turned to first TDC and vola. Of course 
>carbureted and having vacuum/points distributor...
>
>I "feel" this turn-couple-of-crank-turns before my 350 TBI starts in cold 
>weather...
>
>-Mika
>>The 2.5 DIS uses a module with the equivalent of two HEI modules and a
>>master controller. The crank disk has six evenly spaced slots with a
>>seventh slot closely spaced to the #1TDC slot. The controller lets the
>>engine crank until it sees the double slot and then fires alternate
>>modules every third slot. These modules cost about $100 new. You would
>>need two disks on the crank, phased at 90 degrees and some way to send
>>alternate ECM fire pulses to each module. This might not be the most
>practical way to go.
>
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