> K-Jetronic side story:
>
> I kept the car in a non heated garage and never had any starting
> problems. After a year or two (back when you could afford to buy a new
> car every year or two), I sold the car to Nick, a friend at work.
> (Obligatory radio content -- he is the 1938 Detrola employee).
>
> As his garage was (and is) full to the top with old radio stuff, he had
> to keep his cars outside in the Michigan winter. Well, he was
> complaining about the Fox not starting in cold weather. Nick, being the
> excellent troubleshooter that he is, dug into the problem.
>
> It turns out that even though the car was a 4 cylinder, it had 5 fuel
> injectors, the fifth one being for "cold start".
>
> What Nick discovered was that the 5th (cold start) injector was wired
> backwards from the factory and thus never came into operation. He
> changed the wiring and no more cold start problems.
>
> End of K-Jetronic story.
>
> Carter K8VT
K-Jet is a masterpiece of 1960s engineering, the original being entirely
mechanical aside from an electric fuel pump and works remarkably well.
The problem is that the extremely high precision parts are very prone to
clogging with contamination if any gets in the system, and as they wear
with age, it becomes impossible to keep things in perfect tune. Parts
are also very expensive now, when the infamous thermostatic control
pressure regulator failed on my car I pulled it all out and converted to
Megasquirt EFI for less than a rebuilt CPR would have cost.
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