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From: ahs@burl.UUCP (Spinks Albert H. )
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Subject: Re: Fuel Injection
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Date: Sat, 11-Jan-86 11:42:42 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 11 11:42:42 1986
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> Many new cars are advertising different types of fuel injection; multi-port,
> throttle-body, etc.  Would anyone care to give a short tutorial on fuel
> injection in general, and how if any these 'variants' differ from REAL
> fuel injection?  Or are they just names dreamed up by a marketing dept.
> 
> 					Thanks In Advance,
> 
> 						Mike Vehonsky

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I recently took a look at new cars and found displayed prominantly on the
back of some of the small Chevrolets "Electronically Fuel Injection."  
When the time came to look under the hood, I tried to find the pipes that
inject the fuel into the combustion chamber.  No luck.  I asked the salesman
about it.  He couldn't explain the discrepiency, a common failing among 
salesmen.  Finally at the third sales lot I visited, the salesman took the
carberator air cleaner off and showed me a small mechanism at the top of the
carberator with two wires running to it for electronic control.  According
to the salesman, this allowed a computer to pulse the gas at the ideal rate
for each operating condition.

The experience turned me off.  First I felt the manufacturer was misusing the
term Fuel Injection.  He is using a 'buzz word' that will make some people
think they are getting something they are not.  And second, I view it as 
being just another gadget to give problems.  We are really getting too many
things on car motors lately that lower the reliability and 'shade-tree'
maintainability.  One item of contention is the motor computer.  As much
as I use and respect computers, I don't care about having one under the 
hood of my car.  I don't feel the advantages will outway the aggravation.
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				     Albert H. Spinks