Re: No start....

[greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I don't know that it does. Only that it got the car started after I
appeared to have flooded it. It started and ran just like flooded carb
cars so I just figured it worked the same way.

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Eric Storhok wrote:

> I was not aware that the fuel will shut off on SPICA...  interesting.  One
> of those things that EFI mimicked a very good carb characteristic.
>
> Eric
>
> At 09:53 PM 4/16/03 +0000, greg@domain.elided wrote:
> >On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Eric Storhok wrote:
> >
> > > I'm sure that all of you know that you are not supposed to use your pedal
> > > when starting a EFI Alfa...
> > >
> > > BUT, there is one thing you can do...  If you think that you've flooded the
> > > engine, crank with your pedal to the floor (wide open throttle), this will
> > > turn OFF the fuel.  I kid you not, I found it once with our 164, asked Don
> > > Black about it, and he confirmed it for me.
> > >
> > > I thought it was something only Ford did...
> > >
> > > And it worked on our briefly owned Milano as well...
> >
> >My father taught that trick to me years ago, but it didn't have anything
> >to do with EFI engines. It was just something you did if you think you
> >flooded the engine. Put the accelerator on the floor while you cranked.
> >
> >This has worked for me on carbs and EFI engines (and yes, I did it to my
> >SPICA spider when I flooded it too).
>
> AROC Detroit Homepage:  http://www-personal.umich.edu/~alfa/index.htm
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