[alfa] re: What is this FISPA device?

["Obie Fayth" <bibendum59@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

    Also for what it's worth, some of the 164s came with fuel pressure 
dampeners on the inlet end of the fuel rail. I don't think the later cars 
had them so presumably Alfa decided they weren't necessary or perhaps they 
changed something else which negated their need (fuel pump?).

-Obie
Tacoma, Wa.
assorted Alfas



> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:17:05 -0400
> From: Joe Elliott <jee@domain.elided>
> Subject: [alfa] re: What is this FISPA device?
>
>
> For what it's worth, I know that more modern (electronic) sequential
> FI systems usually have such devices.  I can understand that you
> don't want the momentum of fuel in the rail to screw up your fuel
> delivery, and similar issues may apply inside the Spica pump.  What I
> don't understand is why batched injection systems like L-Jet don't
> have these, because I'd think that pulses in the fuel would be a
> bigger deal with all the injectors opening and closing at once.
>
> - -Joe
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