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Old 04-10-2012, 10:57 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Ecky View Post
Very nice! Considered adding aftermarket fuel injection to it?
To do that he would have to get rid of the CVCC head as the spark plug on that head is not in the regular combustion chamber so they don't work well with fuel injection, the CVCC head and 3 barrel carburetor is match that easily allows lean burn.
I think the 1.3L also has an o2 sensor that gives feed back to the carburetor so I'm not sure if fuel injection would give any improvement other then more peek horse power.
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