SM4 Manual
by
MRM-Racing
V3.0
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If you find your injector flow rate is insufficient, you can change to larger injectors, or
increase the fuel pressure. Raising fuel pressure to increase fuel flow rate is not
recommended if the desired flow is more than 20% than the system currently achieves.
Fuel flow is not in direct proportion to fuel pressure. Increasing fuel pressure will reduce
the flow rate of the pump.
If you change to other injectors change the injector type in menu
Injectors
to match your
new type of injectors. After that a changing of the value
Base settings – Overall Fuel Mult
will be needed, Adjust until engine is running on same A/F value as earlier. Some times
small adjustments will be necessary at light load (small injector openings).
There is a nice help program called Injector Size, InjSize.exe can be downloaded from
http://www.autronic.com
Fuel Pump Capacity
You should ensure that your fuel pump is capable of supplying sufficient fuel to feed the
engine at maximum power. With your engine switched of (injector closed) feed the return
line of fuel to a measuring container. In the case of a turbo- or supercharged engine,
pressurize the manifold pressure port of the fuel regulator top the maximum boost of the
engine. This is necessary as the flow rate of the pump decreases with output pressure.
Power the pump for one minute and calculate the hourly fuel flow rate of the pump.
Since the pressure regulator operates on a return system, there should always be fuel
being returned to the tank, even when fuel flow to the engine has reached its maximum.
If this fails to happen, the fuel pressure will fall out of regulation. Therefore the fuel pump
must be capable of delivering significant more fuel than the engine is going to use, As a
guide, the pump should flow 25-35% more fuel than consumed by the engine.
If you can not achieve the required fuel flow from one pump, you can employ two pumps
in parallel. If you use a low-pressure feeding pump to the high pressure pump, place a
check valve after the low-pressure pump.
Fuel Rail & Pressure Regulator
A long fuel rail with narrow internal diameter will suffer from pulsation in the fuel rail. The
internal diameter should be around 12-13 mm (
1
/
2
”). Even so, oscillations may occur,
particularly if injectors are large. A fuel damper can help removing these oscillations.
Oscillations may occur only within a certain rpm range, so the fuel pressure have to be
monitored throughout the driving rang of the engine.
Many aftermarket fuel pressure regulators do not give stable fuel pressures as the
manifold pressure changes. This can lead to confusing tuning problems. As a rule try to
always use the original regulator and totally avoid rising rate regulators.