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 and 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! About the Author: Jeff Hartman is the author of Turbocharging Performance Handbook. He lives in Austin, Texas.
TABLE of CONTENTS:
- Understanding fuel delivery
- Understanding automotive computers and PROMs
- Sensors
- Actuators and actuator systems
- Hot rodding EFI engines
- Recalibrating factory ECUs
- Interceptors and auxiliary computers
- Standalone programmable engine management systems
- EMS/EFI engine-swapping
- Roll-your-own EFI
- Installation and start-up issues
- Designing, modifying, and building intake manifolds
- EMS tuning 101
- EMS troubleshooting
- Emissions and onboard diagnostics
- How to hot rod your carburetted small-block Chevy
- Supercharged Jag-rolet
- 1970 Dodge Challenger B-block
- Focus turbo
- Real-world turbo CRX Si
- Honda del Sol Si turbo
- Turbo-EFI Jaguar XKE 4.2
- Turbo-nitrous Lotus Europa 1.6-liter engine swap.
- MR2 turbo
- MR6: V-6 swap, Motec M48 EMS, compound forced-induction
- Overboosted VW Golf 1.8T
- Frank-M-Stein: turbo M3 Roadster. Plus, EMS/EFT suppliers