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Fuel injector for proper air and fuel ratio.
Car owners nowadays enjoy the pleasure of powerful performance made possible by improved
fuel injection systems their vehicles come equipped with. Originally, carburetors were
used to pump in fuel into the combustion chamber for power production. These carburetors
did not have a "metered" system. That is to say, they did not measure how much fuel or
gasoline they fed the combustion chamber with.
Thus, the fuel supply tended to be either insufficient or excessive. This fuel system
component was therefore replaced with the fuel injector.
The fuel injector was invented to answer the call for an accurate fuel injection to avoid
the excessive or insufficient supply of gasoline into the combustion chamber. This auto
part is a small electric valve controlled by an electric signal from the car computer.
The car computer controls the opening and closing of the fuel injector that lets the fuel
flow into the chamber. Because control of the fuel injector principally resides in the
car computer, the amount of fuel supplied is neither insufficient or more than the amount
required for the combustion of air and fuel.
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The role of the fuel injector, thus, is essentially important as accuracy in fuel
injection is the key to have a better fuel economy and improved overall vehicle
performance. Accurate ratio of air and fuel leads to a lot of great benefits to one's
vehicle performance. For one, it results to a maximized combustion, meaning there is no
unburned fuel. And if there is no unburned fuel, production of nitrogen oxides can be
prevented and there will be a decrease in exhaust emissions.
The fuel injector deals with injecting fuel for combustion and so it also deals with the
unwanted particles found in fuel. Thus, over time, this fuel injection component becomes
polluted with these tiny particles that managed to get past the fuel filter. When these
impurities accumulate, they end up clogging the fuel injector, preventing it from
properly closing.
This can cause the fuel to continuously flow into the gap, ruining the
right ratio of air and fuel, and leading to possible engine part damage as well as
unburned fuel. It is therefore the responsibility of car owners to check the fuel
injectors their rides are equipped with, from time to time. This also includes having
these fuel injectors cleaned when necessary.
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