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- Subject: Re: WHAT IS AN A-I-R PUMP ON A CHEVY CAPRICE ENGINE?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.130057.165641@dstos3.dsto.gov.au>
- From: pzh@aeg.dsto.gov.au (Paul Heuer)
- Date: 26 Jan 93 13:00:55 CST
- References: <1993Jan22.160634.22212@ctp.com>
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- bpita@ctp.com (Bob Pitas) writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan22.082111.165610@dstos3.dsto.gov.au> pzh@swan.dsto.gov.au (Paul Heuer) writes:
- >>mgolden@cwis.unomaha.edu (Brian Golden) writes:
- >><< stuff deleted>>
- >[More stuff deleted]
- >>{Stuff I said before deleted} (I hope this doesn't turn into a cascade :-)
-
- >The reason is that most AIR pumps pump air to the exhaust ports during initial
- >warm up of the car, and then switch and pump the air into the cat-con.
-
- Cat-con?? What cat-con. I should have specified that my car is a 1982 leaded
- (GM) Holden.
-
- >This allows the cat-con to heat up faster, and helps cold-weather starting.
- >The engineers found that one easy way to make a fuel-injected car run rich
- >when cold (like the choke on a carbed engine) is to run air into the exhaust
- >stream up-wind from the O2 sensor, fooling the O2 sensor into telling the
- >computer that the car was running too lean. In reaction to the 'lean'
-
- The "computer" in my car consists of a couple of thermally activated vacuum
- switches that let you have vacuum advance once the motor is warm. No O2 sensor
- in sight and still using a piece-of-sh1t French carby! Ahh technology - it sure
- had our carmakers fooled for a while!
-
- >condition, the fuel injectors are pulsed longer, and more fuel is injected,
- >making for a richer mixture. If you remove the AIR pump, the car won't run
- >properly when cold and will start like shit.
-
- I think that the reason for not removing the belt from the air pump in my case
- is that, with no air pressure from the pump, hot exhaust gases can flow into
- the pump and possibly ignite the plastic and rubber parts of the pump
- (thanks to some-one else for coming up with this reason). As far as removing
- the pump altogether, I suspect that the police and/or road traffic board would
- decide the car was not roadworthy.
-
- Thanks for the info on *modern* air pumps though Bob.
-
- Cheers,
- Paul.
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