DIY_EFI Digest Saturday, October 23 1999 Volume 04 : Number 598 In this issue: Re: DIY_EFI Digest V4 #597 Re: DIY_EFI Digest V4 #597 See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the DIY_EFI or DIY_EFI-Digest mailing lists. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 07:18:21 -0500 From: nacelp@xxx.com (CSH-HQ) Subject: Re: DIY_EFI Digest V4 #597 98%of the injector problems, I've/friends/customers have had, usually were a problem with the fuel. The detergent packages vary greatly, and depending on what/where you use for fuel can be a critical issue. Generally, a major brand, busy station is best. The bargain brand stuff, can be quite old, and lost it's light end aromatics, buyer be ware. Some of the fuel companies are border line legal in what they pass off as fuel, more so then any problem I've seen with the injectors.. Just for grins, and using the proper saftey rules: Take 10 cc's, of the fuel your running and add 1cc, of water, shake, and let settle, If you wind up with more then 1cc of what looks to be water, then that is, the alky content of your fuel. I've seen upwards of 20%.. So what does that really say. The fuel company, is just passing off what ever they can as fuel.. I'd be very leery of the detergent package in that fuel. Like plugs left with a pinkish hue to em, change fuel brands. And for the non sense, about using no higher octane then neccessary, well if your ignoring engine life then fine.. Grumpy >------------------------------ >Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 02:30:24 EDT >From: CApops@xxx.com >Subject: GM Fuel Injector Problems >Dear efi, >I saw a rather criptic message I think you had posted on >http://www.lindertech.com/autolink.htm about problems with your GM fuel >injectors. Do you know of any legal action anyone is taking to force them >to have a recall on them? >My car isn't out of warranty yet but, when my mechanic told me that GM thinks >it's the fuel's problem I couldn't believe it. Why isn't every other car on >the road having problems? He then said that they've come up with a cleaning >procedure every 15000 miles to the tune of about $65. I'm not paying for an >engineering mistake that they are not going to admit to. I'm an engineer who >also works in the auto industry and this is exactly what it sounds like to me. >Please let me know any more you've heard about this subject. >Thanks a lot, >- -CApops@xxx.com >------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 11:03:43 -0400 From: "crash70" Subject: Re: DIY_EFI Digest V4 #597 >I made a L-Jet intercecpt box a few years ago for O2 sensor catalyst >retrofit. I started to work on Ford MAF to L-jet box with list >member. >Alex Alex, (or other listers) Anyone made/interested in making an "intercept" box for Volkswagen Digifant VAF to MAF? (a Bosch MAF seems the most logical) Digifant seems to be decent system, with the exception of the ultra-restrictive VAF. TIA, Chris Bishop ------------------------------ End of DIY_EFI Digest V4 #598 ***************************** To subscribe to DIY_EFI-Digest, send the command: subscribe diy_efi-digest in the body of a message to "Majordomo@xxx. A non-digest (direct mail) version of this list is also available; to subscribe to that instead, replace "diy_efi-digest" in the command above with "diy_efi".