Re: [tech] Motronic Conversion

[drew <drew@dyermaker.cs.uoguelph.ca>]

On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Brett Van Sprewenburg wrote:

> I'm not sure why anyone would want to swap the fuel system over to the
> passenger side when you could just buy the fuel line adapters so you
> could put Motronic injectors on CIS-E lines.  You do not need to change
> the fuel pumps for Motronic.  If you want to be sure about the performance
> of your current pump, run a pressure check.  In all my Mk1's, I've only
> ever seen a single style of accumulator btw...I believe that they are
> mainly in the system to help to prevent leak down fuel pressure while the
> car isn't running.

I seem to recall reading that the role of the accumulator in these systems
is to smooth out the pulses from the fuel pump.  Leakdown is prevented by
a check valve on the main pump.  The Tuning and Modifying Bosh fuel
injection systems book has more info on this though.

Drew


Drew MacPherson, Network Analyst, University of Guelph

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