Thread: FIT Lean Burn
View Single Post
Old 08-31-2017, 01:07 AM   #8 (permalink)
cRiPpLe_rOoStEr
It's all about Diesel
 
cRiPpLe_rOoStEr's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Posts: 12,882
Thanks: 0
Thanked 1,684 Times in 1,502 Posts
If you'd be willing to fool the engine to keep longer at lean-burn, maybe it would worth to try either water injection or just a supplemental injector nozzle right after the throttle-body to avoid going too lean at high load (that was quite usual in my country, especially on turbocharged engines).


Quote:
Originally Posted by oil pan 4 View Post
If you just trick it into lean burn then it runs lean all the time when it shouldn't and you burn valves and at that time it's pretty much get another engine.
I only know because I have been there and done that.
Do not trick your engine into running lean, do it right or pay the price.
That reminds me of some misconceptions held against CNG in my country. Since it has a higher compressibility than gasoline or ethanol, many conversions are set to run so lean on CNG that the engine easily overheats, damaging valve seats or even cracking the engine head.
  Reply With Quote