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Old 04-22-2015, 06:20 PM   #31
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People had FI long before ECU mods were available.

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Originally Posted by gramicci101 View Post
That's a lot of people though. Every FI kit that uses an ECUtek, flex fuel kits, all OFT users from the very basic stage 1 users to the guys creating their own custom maps, would all be affected. Would people still drop $5-6K on a turbo kit if it meant they had to spend another $2K+ on a standalone ECU? Out of all the FI cars on this forum, I don't think more than a handful of them use standalones.
There would just be changes to the way fuel is adjusted for FI.

We used to use FMU's that adjusted fuel rail pressure based on boost levels.

Fuel economy sucks and AFR's sometimes had to be too low, but it worked.

I would imagine independent port electronic FMUs would be developed that would allow for more localized control. It'd be cheaper than stand alone units but not as good as remapping the stock ecu...

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