Looking for reading material ( books ,manuals,magazines) on 50's fuel injection systems..... anyone have any good recommendation's on some helpful material ?
First, do a search, of course. I was always told that the Kinsler brochure was "the bible", so I got one ($12 or so, from Speedway) and it was a pretty good guide. At least it taught me enough to follow along better at bench racing sessions in the pits. Then I knew how to "talk the talk" when I finally got my own injector... There must be something better out there, though...
Kinsler has some good info on their site about operation and tuning. Look for the stuff on the lucas injection too it is pretty neat and apparently much more useable at low RPMs. oh it is called the "online handbook" Tons of info, but kind of poorly sorted.
The book "High performance with Fuel Injection" was written by the guys at Hilborn. You can still get it fron Amazon I think or maybe Hilborn.
A thermodynamics book and hydraulic engineering books are pretty important. The kinsler catalog is also a must have. One of the things that worries me is when a book is regarded as "the bible" of a subject. When a set of knowledge is totally accepted unquestioningly by a large number of people, the advancement of understanding can stop.
I totally agree. This is particularly true if your intention is to run it on the street instead of racing it (but applies to both). There is little enough information out there, but a good deal of it either too general and/or wrong. This does not lend itself to a quick installation and setup. I found in setting up mine that some of the information was reversed, used the wrong calculations, was misleading, or totally inaccurate (especially stuff on the web, but in the books, too). These were good stating points, but the best thing to do is to understand how your engine works and then understand how the injection system works (how all the parts and tuning points impact the rest of the system). Something that is not mentioned in the books is that you will probably need certain "special" tools to tune the system once it is installed and running to get good performance out of it. These include a tool to measure air flow in the ram tubes, a tool to measure fuel/air mixture in the exhaust, and a tool to measure spring/poppet pressures. You will also need a set of very fine feeler gauges down to .001 to set the ****erflies. One other point - unless you like a messy engine compartment, be ready to make a lot of brackets and bend a lot of tube. Jay
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