My apologies for any offence I may have caused. I have been quite merrily
calling them "twinkies" for the last 24 years. It will no doubt be a tough
habit to break. :)
My primary interest in FI and engine management on older cars is to
determine the viability of new technology for improving drivability of
modified engines, and replacement of discontinued components.
As you stated there will always be a place for the tuner of carbs and
distributors in the vintage arena. Unfortunately there are many vehicles
that are off the road because parts and expertise are not available. Cars
are being scapped because they cannot meet emmission specifications, and
every day we see poorly engineered drivetrain swaps.
I love SUs, Webers, Lucas etc. When working correctly and tuned there is no
replacement for the original components. I am also interested in the
future, when our cars start to become liabilities. When it becomes
impossible to source the geebs (technical word) that are needed to keep the
engines putting. I want to be able to drive my LBC daily, and I want others
to have that choice too. At this time that means keeping carbs, fuel pumps
and distributors in production. In the future, I would like to keep my
options open.
Ok, I also have a bad back from leaning over tweaking carbitooties. The
concept of sitting on my butt, typing in fueling parameters is starting to
look good.
Best regards.
Kelvin.
Nah, I want to supercharge a B just cos it's there.
>
> Hostess makes twinkies, Abingdon made TWINCAMS! There now,
> having got that
> off my chest......
> Looked in the garage, no spare Twincam heads presented themselves.
> The FI route is interesting, but not one I have followed up
> due to vintage
> racing rules - they are strangely unsympathetic to such
> innovations, although
> you could get constant flow injection in the 60s - Tecalemit
> made one such,
> that did well on Dangerfield's special bodied Triumph (anyone
> remember that
> car?) and was fitted to a few MGBs.
>
> FI, unless implemented quite well, may or may not offer power
> advantages over
> carbs. A well set up Weber or two will often get almost the
> same ultimate
> power as FI, although not the same flexibility, nor low down
> driveability.
>
> As for the engine management, been there, done that, with
> custom chips and
> modded sensors, on my street daily driver/playtime project
> (300 bhp blown
> Fiero), but again, they frown on such modern stuff in vintage.
>
> If you want some details of how such stuff theoretically
> _could_ be applied
> to MGs, contact me off-list.
>
> Bill
>
> (PS - I'll bet you just want to supercharge it so you can
> avoid dealing with
> piston crown design and go with flat tops!)
>
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