[Dave Bell]

Wow... this topic really stirred up some comments...

The summary seems to be that you shouldn't need these things...don't expect any power improvements... but that in practice they often help.... especially on old engines with problems...

I am with you... I don't expect any HP gains really... Germain's first comment about the 20 year old Briggs and Straton almost sold me instead of turning me off... you see I am driving a 25 year old VW motor with some problems I have not completely sorted out yet! ;-) Sam is right... the big if, is "if the system is working correctly"... I can answer no to that one since I bought the machine a year ago. I'd love to have it all sorted out... but I don't yet.

I have the stock L-Jet FI and the only big problem I still have, after going though everything in the FI system, is rough idle during the first few minutes of warm up and the occasional stumble at idle after that. Most of you guys seem to have added the electronic ignition to carbed engines. I was/am hoping to pick up some improvement on my FI system....

Thanks for all the response!

- Dave