Re: Turbo? TUR-BO!!

["Alex Ting" <alext@nu2u.net>]

it really depends on the turbo system.
There where several kits that used the stock system with
no modifications to the CIS such as the BAE kit.
If you keep it below 8psi, there are no fuel delivery problems.


Alex Ting
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-----Original Message-----
From: RoccoPhil <roccophil@mindspring.com>
To: Scirocco Mailing List <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Date: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: Turbo? TUR-BO!!


>Good point, Brett.  My point was that the stock CIS or -E is really not
>capable of ideal support of a turbo system.  What has been posted by many
>are really just modifications to the system, which after some point we have
>to say are not really a CIS or -E system anymore.  They may all work, but
>then are they still CIS systems?
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>-PK
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>> > I think you're missing out on a very important detail, older VW's use a
>CIS,
>> > or Continuous Injection System...as in the fuel injectors are purely
>> > mechanical and are injecting fuel all the time.  The rate is controlled
>> > by a purely mechanical device (or electro-mechanical device in the case
>> > of CIS-E) called a fuel distributor.  Essentially, this is the main
>> > 'brains' of the system.  As detailed by the Bosch book on fuel
>injection,
>> > the CIS / CIS-E system is good enough as a system to support about
>170ish
>> > horsepower.  If you plan on making much more power, plan on switching
to
>a
>> > more sophisticated system.  All the CIS injectors work the same way,
and
>as
>> > for flow characteristics...I haven't seen much comparison in this area.
>> > Maybe the Bosch book has something...
>> >
>> > ==Brett
>> >
>> >  \/  '84 Scirocco (ITB racer 2B) | "Hot VW's, take two home. They're
>small"
>> > \/\/ '88 Scirocco 16v (Show), '92 Passat 16v (Winter+) | -
>brett@netacc.net
>> >
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