Considering rebuilding for more ethonal capabilities

Brett Dikeman brett at cloud9.net
Fri Nov 23 15:14:58 EST 2001


At 10:47 AM -0700 11/23/01, Leah and David Mueller wrote:
>With the advent of FFV vehicles I was wondering what I could do in an engine
>rebuild on my normally asperiated 5cyl 1986 4kq to make it more user
>friendly for higher concentrations of ethonal.  Higher compression I imagine
>and other things?  Throw in a rebuilt NF engine instead?

I think the problem is the numerous seals involved in the CIS
metering head and the injectors.  They probably don't get enough
lubrication past a certain ethanol concentration...but this is a wild
ass guess.

B
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