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<DIV>In a message dated 3/15/2016 9:58:09 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
d.nohejl@gmail.com writes:</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>We’ve
been chasing FI problems on and off from the moment we got the car as a roller
in June of 2012, so we’re coming up on 4 years now. I can’t help wondering if
daily driving FI is a bad idea. Everyone says it should be “set it and forget
it” reliable but that’s never been true for us for more than relatively brief
periods. I’ve put 1100 miles on it in less than a month and I wonder if in
driving it like this, we’re pushing the “issue threshold” of these old
components. In other words, maybe those who drive a lot less see fewer
problems simply because they drive less and ask less of their 47 year old
electronics? Of course I say all of this after having to wake up 45 minutes
earlier, triple my commute time, and all of that on account of the
car!</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>I don't really think that the age of the FI electronics is the problem, or
it being a daily driver, as there are a lot of VW's running around in SoCal as
daily drivers. Granted most of them have carbs, but the FI system is really just
an electronic carb in a type 3 (ducking under the table now), as it doesn't
change the timing, or adjust the fuel mixture to an O2 sensor reading. It's
basically running on whatever the programing in the ECU tells it to do. Modern
FI does change both spark and fuel, which is why quite a few people are
switching to MegaSquirt FI systems. I mean my 88 Astro is still EFI (that Ray
says has the absolute worst in the world connections), and it's only 19 years
newer (or 2 years shy of being 30 years old), but it's also more complicated.
Same can be said of my 92 Geo Prizm, and it's Japanese electronic FI (has a
Toyota engine in it), with some weird things of it's own, that aren't found in a
lot of the older vehicles.</DIV>
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<DIV>If you really think daily driving an FI vehicle is bad, then maybe you
should convert to carbs. Keep in mind that most of them are at least as old as
your FI system, and parts are available, as is throttle re bushing services, and
adding screw in fittings for the fuel inlets to replace the swaged in brass
fitting (fire prevention). But, needle and seat replacements are sketchy these
days, and are more of a problem than a solution.</DIV>
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<DIV>Sorry for kind of rambling on, but...
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