Re: Cold start problem...

[t.p.gladczenko@geologi.uio.no]

Hi,

the now old questions deleted:

>In the stone age (ie my Falcon), to fix a "flooded" car, you would hold the 
>pedal to the floor, while cranking, until the car started. The reasoning 
>being that opening the throttle allows more air in to evaporate the extra 
>gas more quickly. Anyone know if this will help with these FI beasts?


Somewhat. When I had the leaky injector problem I found that it made a 
bit of adifference, the engine would start after turning around 5-6 times 
instead 8, which was the standard. Yes it felt exactly like a "flooded" 
carburated engine.

tadeusz

87 80q 1.8
83 80 (RIP)