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How to tune and modify engine management systems motorbooks. Part of the course is that we have to read a book and write a brief report on it. Be aware that most books will contain a lot of the same material and by the same author but is presented slightly differently depending on the focus of the book. Tuning engines can be a mysterious art, all engines need a precise balance of fuel, air, and timing in order to reach their true performance potential. Ecu remapping service to improve the performance of your engine. By learning engine tuning, i want to be able to learnknow the following. If you want a real efi engine tuning book get engine management advanced tuning by greg banish. Datalogging of the engine sensor data during a wide open throttle run reveals the actual air consumption.
Designing and tuning highperformance fuel injection system by greg banish and performance fuel injection systems hp1557. These are the performance mods are usually fitted by our members, decide how far you want to go before you begin. Two efi books to start with might be sa 5, engine management advanced tuning, and sa 161, designing and tuning highperformance fuel injection systems, both by greg banish. The specifications and prices below can generally be applied to all and we are always happy to offer an exchange engine or rebuild your own unit if you wish. How to tune and modify motorcycle engine management systems. Things like driving much more economically and also carrying out simple engine checks do aid, yet the one largest. While many around the world are shutting down, we are still shipping our racing tech manuals as long as usps is picking up. Theres very little in here about tuning and modifying emss. Greg banish is a mechanical engineer that works as an oem calibrator. Its chapter after chapter of what amounts to essentially just an advertising brochure for all the various manufacturers of ecus. Then in 1908 ford introduced the model t, which was designed by childe harold wills and two hungarian immigrants, joseph a.
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