anyone running cis w/o fuel accumulator?

[drew at scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca (Drew MacPherson)]

As I understand it the accumulator has two roles - 1) to help maintain
system pressure at rest, and 2) to help smooth out the pulses of the fuel 
pump.

I don't know if you would experience any driveability issues from an 
absence of #2 - but I'm guessing likely not.  Friends had the end 
literally blow off the accumulator on their CIS equipped 87 Jetta - they 
drove it for a few weeks before asking me what these parts they found in 
their drive were (the end cap and the spring.)

Note - the diaphragms in those things are pretty damned tough stuff.

Drew

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Anson Clement wrote:

> anoyone know what nasty side effects this will cause? I can live with hot start issues but I've never been an advocate of lost performance.
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