How To Tune & Modify Engine Management Systems

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Want to extract more horsepower from your modern car? Then you'd better understand fuel injection and engine management. Without it, anything you throw at an engine—turbocharger, supercharger, nitrous oxide, radical camshaft—will never reach its potential worse, it may cause expensive engine damage.

Luckily, you've found How To Tune & Modify Engine Management Systems. Inside, author Jeff Hartman draws on more than a decade of experience to explain everything from the basics of fuel injection to building complex cars. His text gives you the detail you need, but is also very readable and easy to understand.

Hartman's book provides comprehensive information about the various components of engine management systems, from sensors and actuators to the computer systems that make everything work. Hartman helps you decide whether to use your engine's factory system, add an auxiliary computer, or go with a standalone solution. Detailed chapters on tuning and troubleshooting give you the knowledge you need to sort out the bugs. In addition, a series of project car chapters chronicle real-world engine management build-ups, from mild to wild. It's everything you need to give your modern car more power!

Table of Contents:

1. Understanding fuel delivery
2. Understanding automotive computers and PROMs
3. Sensors
4. Actuators and actuator systems
5. Hot rodding EFI engines
6. Recalibrating factory ECUs
7. Interceptors and auxiliary computers
8. Standalone programmable engine management systems
9. EMS/EFI engine-swapping
10. Roll-your-own EFI
11. Installation and start-up issues
12. Designing, modifying, and building intake manifolds
13. EMS tuning 101
14. EMS troubleshooting
15. Emissions and onboard diagnostics
16. How to hot rod your carburetted small-block Chevy
17. Supercharged Jag-rolet
18. 1970 Dodge Challenger B-block
19. Focus turbo
20. Real-world turbo CRX Si
21. Honda del Sol Si turbo
22. Turbo-EFI Jaguar XKE 4.2
23. Turbo-nitrous Lotus Europa 1.6-liter engine swap.
24. MR2 turbo
25. MR6: V-6 swap, Motec M48 EMS, compound forced-induction
26. Overboosted VW Golf 1.8T
27. Frank-M-Stein: turbo M3 Roadster. Plus, EMS/EFT suppliers

About the Author:

Jeff Hartman is the author of Turbocharging Performance Handbook. He lives in Austin, Texas.

How To Tune & Modify Engine Management Systems