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Old 01-23-2015, 05:29 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by johnlvs2run View Post
The battery use is much higher.
Yah, but power demands should be lower since you aren't running injectors or spinning alternators and stuff. Though there is probably a break-even point for getting everything stopped and started rotating again. I do wonder if cutting an injector is the best approach though, the ECU is bound to see a fault and may go open loop after restarting, whereas if you switch off the rpm signals to the ecu, it may simply "think" the car is stopped (and you don't need much of a switch to break a signal). How you kill it might be a factor. My honda gets a CEL when I break an injector lead.

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