Date:         Sun, 7 May 2000 21:05:13 -0700
Reply-To:     Mark Drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mark Drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: Instant horsepower (Pinwheel)
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@IBM.NET>
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The 86 BMW fuel injection is a pulsed system also. The Motronic parts
are very familiar to anyone who has a Digifant system. BMW did not use
the CIS system as far as I know. I have owned several 6 cylinder BMWs
from a 77 530i on and they all had pulsed injection.

Mark Drillock
87 Syncro Camper, 5 Cylinder CIS injection
86 BMW 325E 320,000 miles, great car still
90 BMW 325I 140,000 miles
82 Westy Diesel

David Beierl wrote:
>
> At 21:37 5/7/2000, Terry Kay wrote:
> >The point was, if I can simply add a computer chip, and gain some 20
> >horses why can't I do it to  1.9 VW?
>
> The major reason probably is that the L-Jetronic aka Digijet injection
> system is a pulsed rather than continuous-flow system, and as such is not
> very amenable to fiddling with.  See discussion in _Bosch Fuel Injection &
> Engine Management_, Charles Probst; Robert Bentley, Publisher,
> 1991.  Available from Bus Depot and direct from Bentley, among others.
>
> cheers
> david
> David Beierl - Providence, RI
>   http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
> '85 GL "Poor Relation"