At 19:13 +1100 17/12/97, Michael D. Porter wrote:
>George P. Richardson wrote:
>>
>> I had read in a recent magazine that it was because the P.I. system didn't
>> work well in all of the variuos climates in the USA, but I'll bet it was
>> more because of the difficulty of setting them up for the different
>> climates. In other words, the dealers didn't have trained technicians, like
>> Steve said.
>
>Climate might be an approximation--what the earliest PI systems lacked
>(and, as I was told last year, was later made available) was barometric
>compensation. Altitude differences certainly would have been a factor in
>their tractability in US terrain.
>
>Cheers.
>
>--
>My other Triumph runs, but....
Do carbs have altitude compensation? I find it hard to believe that there
are any conditions in North America that could not have been found in
another part of the World where PI TR5/6s were supplied.
Trevor Jordan
74 TR6 CF29281U
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