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Author of "101 Projects"
Join Date: Jan 1995
Location: Rolling Hills Estates, CA
Posts: 27,056
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Steve is probably right, but you have the right idea. Build the engine, and see how it runs. The fuel system is one thing that you can always alter and change. Particularly with CIS, it's very easy to swap components or even modify the WUR to give slightly more fuel flow.
The *only* concern with this strategy (and it doesn't really apply to your car) would be for modifying the 3.2 engines with Motronic. There's a very small paragraph in the engine book (almost too small, as I had to stuff it in at the last minute) that mentions you should be careful about boosting the CR on a Motronic car without a knock sensor (which the Carreras don't have in their particular version of Motronic). This is because you cannot retard the timing if you start to get detonation. The timing is controlled by the pre-programmed computer from the factory. The only solution would be to rechip the computer, or remove and replace the Motronic with an Engine Management System (big $$$). If you don't, and your engine continuously detonates due to too high compresson, it will slowly blow itself apart. The 3.6 cars don't have this problem (in general) because they have knock sensors that can sense the detonation and back the timing off (they also run at 11:1 or so compression).
-Wayne
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