Building our own PCM and FICM (or how to get pilot injection back)
Originally Posted by Frobozz
If I understand you correctly, we're in complete agreement. I believe PI is a fantastic engineering concept, but is unimplementable in the current 6.0L engine, and no amount of hardware and software design is going to change that. Ford gave up on it and so should we - time to move on.
We know they had problems with the C94 injectors. as-far-as-we-know, the C95's have been fine. We know they've had various buglets concerning the computer --- but it's not clear how/if they resolved it. It's pretty clear that the oil is a factor and that the fullness of the oil is a factor.
But in the end, someone at Ford is going to estimate the benifit and the cost of keeping PI and the benifit and cost of axing PI. If axing is cheaper, then axing they will do. Does it matter if you would pay $1000 for a PI engine. Does it matter that you would be willing to use a certain specific oil rather than any CI-4 oil? No.
Specifically, the reason to proceed with this type of project is that we have no control right now. In the end, we might not achieve PI. We can't know the issue because we don't have a way to experiment.
Last edited by ZBeeble; Aug 9, 2004 at 10:27 AM. Reason: aparently you can't use an acronym for as-far-as-we-know. It's asterisk's it out.
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