Hi Joe,
Yep, there are special leaded fuel versions available from bosche. I
understand they are significantly more expensive than the unleaded type.
The local repco should be able to help.
You are very lucky still having leaded fuel. NZ lost it several years ago
as a result of the local pressure groups (silly thing is we have replaced
the lead with other wonderful poisons such as benzene and tolulene and lots
of it!).
If Aussie does go to unleaded, be careful with your PI. Straight unleaded
fuel is fine as is straight leaded fuel. However, I found that the mixture
of leaded and unleaded (by the petrol stations during the changeover time)
melted all the rubber between the fuel pump and injectors (that's a lot of
o-rings!!)
Cheers
Bernard
'71 PI (snap)
'73 TR6 PI
At 05:25 9/06/00 +1000, Santamaria, Joseph (Joseph) wrote:
>Does anyone one know of an electronic air/fuel ratio sensor that is able to
>be used on leaded fuel. In Australia leaded is still quite available and I
>use it in my 2500PI and Stag and would love to use this easy method to
>monitor the mixture.
>
>Cheers
>
>76 Stag
>71 2500PI Sedan
>
>Joe Santamaria
>* Lucent Technologies Australia Pty Ltd
>Call Centre Consultant
>Lucent Technologies CRM Professional Services
>*Tel: +61 2 93529287
>*Fax: +61 2 93529287
>* mailto:jsantamaria@lucent.com
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: William Whitmoyer [mailto:wwhitmoyer@samsonite.net]
>Sent: Thursday, 8 June 2000 6:02
>To: 6pack@autox.team.net
>Subject: Tim's Idle Mixture
>
>
>When I first set-up my 2 stock carbs, I had success using a
>Colortune...which lets you see (roughly) what the mixture is in each
>cylinder.
>
>
>
>Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 21:45:52 -0700 (PDT)
>From: tr6taylor@webtv.net (Sally or Dick Taylor)
>Subject: Re: Idle mixture
>
>Tim---I don't know if I can help or not, but let's go over a few
>things..First, you paid $ to have an air/fuel monitor. Situations such
>as you described are exactly why they are sold to after market users.
>Get the blasted thing connected, for starters.
>Having only one sensor sending info about three carburetor mixes won't
>make it easy to sort out what it's telling the monitor. As you must
>know, the exhaust could now be a mixture of two rich carbs and one lean
>one, for example. You'll need to look at your sparkplugs to make sure of
>even coloring. Anytime one goes it alone when modifying an engine can
>find themselves wondering if the did the right thing! OK, enough with
>the philosophy....... (cut)
>
>Dick T.
>
>William Whitmoyer
>69 TR6
>90 BMW iX
>91 CRX Si
>
>
Regards
Bernard Robbins
NEC New Zealand Ltd
Network Solutions
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