ditchdigger
ditchdigger Reader
6/29/09 11:04 p.m.

Been staring at the unit all day and I cannot figure this out

How does the fuel get from the injector past the butterfly and into the intake at idle when the butterfly is closed? Does it really hit the closed butterfly, bounce back up and into the idle bypass area? Am I missing something here?

SkinnyG
SkinnyG Reader
6/29/09 11:54 p.m.

I'll bet the throttle plate is not perfectly closed, and sucking the fuel through the wee gap helps to further atomize the fuel. The air valve should provide enough additional air to let the engine idle.

G

MadScientistMatt
MadScientistMatt Dork
6/30/09 9:11 a.m.

Right, the air picks up speed around the plates and this helps vaporize the fuel. I've seen some attempts to measure the fuel distribution on TBIs that inject fuel downstream of the throttle blades and it's not pretty.

ditchdigger
ditchdigger Reader
6/30/09 10:38 a.m.

Cool. I am overthinking things again. I have no problem with that

SkinnyG
SkinnyG Reader
6/30/09 10:43 a.m.

I want some multi-coloured felts to doodle art that TBI picture. Is that bad?

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