craig@fritz.UUCP (Craig Hockenberry) (01/25/86)
With all this talk about fuel injection, I thought I would post this summary of fuel injection systems. Most of what is presented here is from a technical session Bosch gave to the BMW Car Club of America at the annual meeting in Oktober. There are three types of injections systems: Single point -- Most often used by American car companies. -- One injector feeds multiple cylinders. Injector is not near the intake valve, it is a the head of the intake manifold. -- Basically a carburettor tuneable via electronics. Multi point (non-sequenced) -- Most often used by European car companies. -- Usually an injector for each cylinder. Sometimes an injector will feed multiple cylinders (one injector for two cylinders). The injectors are close to the intake valve (at the base of the intake manifold). -- Injectors all release a charge at the same time. Charge stays above the intake valve until it opens. The charge is "inactive" for a very short period of time (milliseconds). Multi point (sequenced) -- Same as non-sequenced except injectors fire just before intake valve opens. The charge is never "inactive". -- Not used much because there is marginal gain over non-sequenced. The difference is barely detectable on the dyno and does not warrant the added complexity. This just describes the injection of a charge. The control system is a another story. I suspect most of the confusion about fuel injection comes from marketing people. They have a real gift for taking something simple and giving it hundreds of different names... -- /%%///%% Craig Hockenberry /%%%//%/ ..!ucbvax!trwrb!felix!craig /%%////% FileNet Corporation, Costa Mesa, California /%%/%//% /%%//%%% "The stuff of thought is the seed of the artist" - Arshile Gorky, 1942