Crazy Type III's & Cold Start Valves

["Woolston Craig" <cwoolsto@ladc.lockheed.com>]

Where I grew up in Santa Ana, CA (Southern CA) there was a Squareback  which had a Bug top mounted on the roof above the 
engine compartment.  There were seat mounted on the engine lid so that the people sat up in the Bug top.  The Bug windshield 
even had windshield wipers for those rear passengers.  Made for an interesting 6 passenger car.  Those rear passengers were 
elevated 5 feet off the ground, so it must have been a neat ride.  Anyway just thought I would pass my crazy Type III story along.

Since there is a discussion going on about Cold Start Systems I was wondering if anyone else out there had taken Muir's 
advice and disconnected the system.  He states in the Idoit book that he sees no reason to inject rax fuel down the intake pipes 
for cold starting.  That he has started hs car in very cold conditions without it and not had any problems.

I have a '70 and '71 with stock FI except that I took his advice and have the cold start injector disconnected.  All the equipment is 
install just not the connectors.  I also don't have the microswitch installed that normally goes above the throttle assembly,  that is 
triggered when you step on the accelerator.  S. Ca is not very cold conditions compared to the East and some of the other 
places people operate Type III's.  But I have taken the car to the Mts and in the high desert where I live now it can get into the 
teens at night/early morning and I have never had any problems.

I was speculating that the cold start system was really a catch all for the fact that when the car has sat for some time (say 
overnight) that the system does not get fully pressurize by the two second pump run when you first turn the key on and this 
injector help in starting.  But since I have read through our list that the temp sensor doesn't activate the system until it's real cold 
that doesn't seem to be the case.

Just wondering what others out there have done with this system and also if disconnecting it could cause FI problems later on?

Also please disregard the duplicate of this message when it finally does come out of email purgatory, since this high tech 
company can't always get it's mail gateway to work and I sent this message through a different one then the duplicates.
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Craig Woolston
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works
cwoolsto@ladc.lockheed.com