Date:         Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:34:04 -0400
Reply-To:     "Michael J. Sullivan" <sullivan@OPENMARKET.COM>
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From:         "Michael J. Sullivan" <sullivan@OPENMARKET.COM>
Subject:      Re: What is an AFM?
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There is a company in England that sells a "kit" to convert plate-based FI systems to hotwire FI systems. They've done this for Rabbits, etc. Their message to me was that it could be modifed for Vanagons.



At 12:24 PM 10/5/99 -0600, Kent Christensen wrote:

>re:  Air Flow Meter ... basically tells your fuel injection computer

>how much air is coming into the engine so it can give you a proper

>mixture of fuel and air in the cylinders for an efficent burn

>

>This is correct.  The one in my aircooled model performs its

>measurement via deflection of a plate.  This method is almost totally

>replaced now by measurement via hot wire although I believe hot wire

>systems never made it to Vanagons.  A really good book on how Bosch

>Fuel Injection works can be found at

>http://www.rb.com/bosch/gfib/gfib.htm  Easy to understand and

>recommended. Vanagons have pulsed injection as opposed to continuous

>injection.

>

<bold>Michael J. Sullivan

</bold>Marshfield Hills, MA

Tierra del Fuego 2000 or bust!


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