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Re: FI fuel damper/muffler/mystery box


Well, Jim
  What about damping pulsing from the injectors, to buffer the PUMP? 
Also, if it can retain air inside itself, THAT would be a good damper-
our well uses an air bladder to store pressure in the tank...
Just a thought,
Toby

> That is what I had always thought, but since it is only a solid steel
> box, with no real flex to the sides, it has no real capacity to
> absorb pump pulses.  Besides, the Bosch fuel pump is a roller pump,
> and roller pumps don't create pressure pulses.  Good old rubber hose
> is pretty good at absorbing pressure pulses, too.
> 
> In the end, I am at a loss to explain what was on their minds, unless
> there WAS something in there at one time.
> 
> Has anyone ever seen one of these on any other D-Jetronix car?
> 
> Jim
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