performance question

[scirocco-al at insight.rr.com (Scirocco-al)]

Your brakes should be fine for auto-x with dot 4 brake fluid and fresh
fluid.  Even 2 year old brake fluid looses 60% of it upper heat because of
the water it absorbs.  I used to change mine at the once a year at the
beginning of the season and never had a problem.  Factory ignition should be
fine.  As far as the mixture goes, you can adjust it by tuning the allen
screw buried between the fuel lines and the boot on the fuel distributor.
You might have to drill out the plug that covers it.  It would be best to
have a dyno and a c/o meter to achieve best results.

Later,

Alan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carpenter/Graffy" <egraffy@earthlink.net>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 9:36 PM
Subject: performance question


> Hi All,
> Just came back from autocrossing the 81 at Blackhawk Farms Raceway, and
> learned enough about the car to post a couple of performance questions. In
> addition to the fact that I neglected to put high-temp brake fluid in the
> car and felt my brakes turn to mush within the first few practice laps, I
> seemed to be giving away a lot of high-end performance in the straights
> (compared to the third-place Integra, second-place Taurus and first-place
> Sterling. I have a stock RD (1.8L 8V) engine in the car with a new
> Techtonics exhaust, but have retained the original 81 ignition system,
> intake plumbing, fuel distributor, and injectors. I suspect that I'm
> hindered by not getting the right air/fuel flow at the top end, with
> perhaps a corresponding lack of ignition precision. My questions are:
> - If I want to maximize these elements for this motor, do I need to
convert
> to a complete CIS-E fuel/intake/ignition system, or can I just replace
> stuff piecemeal, like the fuel distributor with a different regular CIS
one?
> - Should I replace the injectors with the later "air bleed" ones?
> - And if I do that, should I also graft in the intake plumbing from a
later
> car to provide the air bleed to those injectors (yes I know it only really
> matters at high manifold vacuum and low RPMs)?
> - Which ignition?
> Thanks,
> Cris
>
>
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