Barry Grant Fuel Injection?

Squash realsquash at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 11 16:56:36 GMT 2001


I thought it all hit a closed intake valve most of the time anyways?

Squash

--- ae2598 at wayne.edu wrote:
> Looked at that BG setup, what am I missing.. Where's the INJECTORS?!  Is
> this not just a tricked out dominator with feedback controls?
> 
> > >   What BG says on that page is exactly true, the longer the fuel
> > >droplets have to travel before reaching the combustion chamber, and
> > >the faster they travel getting there, the better the atomization.
> I'm no expert in thie field, but wouldn't it be the other way around?  The
> farther you go, wouldn't you suffer from cumulative effects of fuel
> condensing on the intake walls?  FASTER is better, but longer=faster is an
> incorrect belief.
> 
> 
> > >Also, reducing the pressure around a fuel droplet helps the droplet to
> > >break apart more, like just below a venturi.
> Agreed, but once you get past the venturi, you're back near the same
> pressure you started at, no?  So the further you go, the longer the
> atomized fuel is subjected to the pressures that caused to condense in the
> first place, which would diminish the benefits of the venturi!
> 
> > >   **Keeping** the fuel suspended is the tricky part, and has
> > >everything to do with manifold design.
> True, which is why the trend is toward DRY manifolds, which avoid (mostly)
> that tricky part!
> 
> Maybe the solution is to design the port injector nozzles in such a way
> that they leave the injector through a venturi.  That way, you'd get the
> beneficial vaporizing effect, and minimal time/distance for the fuel to
> re-condense.
> 
> If the above logic is flawed, please comment.. I suspect that people are
> being taken in by clever advertising with little basis in science!
> 
> 
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