Re: Can an ECM "learn" how to start the car better?

["Bruce Plecan" <nacelp@bright.net>]

For a second there I thought you were going to say Nitropropane, like that
ain't been beat to death already.
Grumpy


> >Starting in about the second week in Apr is when the oil companies start
> >putting summer brewed fuel into the system.  The is a difference from
winter
> >to summer fuel.  Also takes a while to dilute the stuff in the
distribution
> >network to the new brew.
> >Grumpy
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> >    Yep , especially removing the propane from the mix , which helps cold
> > weather start up but really hurts warm weather performance, not , unless
> >you're running a fork truck.
> Len.
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> > > I'll try to be brief.  At one point, something caused the car to be
> > > "smoking" rich when cold.  Well, long story drastically shortened, an
ECM
> > > change ('165) was needed because there was no comm.  That ended up
making
> > > the car run world's better under any condition, but only minimally
> >improved
> > > the sudden cold-start problem.  At least it would start and after a
minute
> > > the idle would smooth out.  Over the next few weeks, the car started
> >better
> > > and better and now there is no sign of the cold-start problem.  I
don't
> > > think it's a weather change because I'm on the east coast of Florida
and
> >the
> > > mornings have been pretty consistent, it's just our afternoon's got
> >hotter.
> > > Plus we've had some "cold" mornings since then and the car starts
without
> >a
> > > problem.
> > > Any thoughts?
> > >
> > > Sorry for the bandwidth use, just curious.
> > > Steve
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