Re: Bosch injectors in CIS 16V head?

["Wm. Josiah Erikson" <josiah@gsinet.net>]

The Saab 16v Turbos were actually a 10:1 compression ratio engine, made possible by low boost pressures and the awesome APC system.
    -Josiah
    http://www.gsinet.net/~josiah

Ken Greenlaw wrote:

> With all this talk about turbocharging a 16V, has anybody ever seen/heard of anyone machining the 16V heads to accept the Bosch injectors you're almost certainly going to want to use along with a different programmable ECU (Haltech?  Electromotive?  Motec?  Motronic/EEC-IV/etc from a junkyard donor?)
>
> Saab gets away with using 9:1 compression in exchange for a low-mass turbo producing relatively little additional horsepower but retaining relatively high-compression economy, and I've seen 10:1 applications (Turbo & HiTech Performance featured an NSX) that introduced alcohol upon boost to combat detonation.
>
> Aerodyne makes turbos that are permanently lubricated with some synthetic oil cartridge that resolve some oil feed problems that odd placement can cause.  I think the aforementioned NSX used one.
>
> It would be especially nice to do away with the leaky 16V camshaft-mounted distributor with some form of direct-fire ignition, while we're at it...
>
> Just my DM$0.02...
>
> -Ken
> '87 16V / '81 16V (I know, wrong motor... very wrong... CIS and Opel Manta distributor...)
> Other miscellaneous Alfa Romeos, Vespas, and a Ducati
>
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