Tag: EFI
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more tuning – and winter starting
I’ve not driven the bus now for a few weeks and so headed into the gloomy november afternoon light do give it a run through and warm the engine. Sadly – and predictably – the huge new Yuasa battery I swapped in just a few weeks ago after the old one (8 years and counting)…
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so i started building another, other engine for the wedge…
after the 2.1DJ wbx spat a head bolt late last summer I slowly build up a junk find 2.1MV (the low compression kind)
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Performance charts for the Samba
Here’s the graphs from the mapping on the Dyno at Taylor Machine Services after the winter rebuild and repair work The Engine was run with and without the fanbelt on, without the belt on made 22BHP more and over 10 Ft/lb of torque more. The figures for BHP are slightly down on previous estimates but…
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DTA electronic fuel injection
The bus currently runs with electronic fuel injection. The system is comprised of DTA E48 EXP Engine management system Jenvey 45mm Throttle bodies with Bosch injectors Samco Coil back with wasted spark Oil temp sensor in left hand rocker cover Ambient air temp sensor inside engine bay Throttle position sensor on spindle of left hand…
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Travelling…
A trip away heading south… We had fun playing with a honda r type. Sadly the bus lost the edge after about xxx mph. It was only after slowing and regaining hearing that i realised the bus had lost a plug lead and was running on three cylinders the whole time…. Cool ! had to…
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hmmm…
i spent the day trying to get the studio back into some sort of shape and throwing away all sorts of old garbage that’s been in boxes since we moved back into the country… getting somewhere i guess. ollie dwyer came over late in the evening and we chatted about his new project. his first…
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out with the old in with the new
finally sorted through some of the images from the trip up north last week to take the bus to taylor machine. so out with the old and in with the new
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splitscreen flight sim…
i’ve been looking around for a cheap windows laptop to monitor the new engine management system on the bus… should be a giggle, enough to keep me out of trouble anyhow. if i run a serial extension cable from the main ECU in the engine bay up into the cab i can drive along with…