That said, the way that A/F ratio is calculated is by how much fuel the computer calculates went in based on the time the fuel injectors were open. And how much air passed the Air Mass sensor.
The o2 sensors do not detect A/F ratio, they detect Stoichiometric (A complete burn). The O2 sensor feeds back to the ECU with a voltage for how much bellow or above stoichiometric. Then the ECU will add or subtract time that the injectors are open to try to get to the correct ratio.
During "Open loop" Wide open throttle and startup, The ECU has a fuel map table to determine how much fuel should be added. And does not look at the sensors besides the Air Mass. If you can count on the HHO being there those map tables could be adjusted or fuel pressure reduced.
Here is the theory part, that I have not tried yet:
Hypothesis: When adding HHO to the combustion we are still searching for Stoichiometric, therefore the O2 sensors are still working to hit the same value. The ECU should be able to correctly add the gasoline needed to adjust to the blended fuel. The concern is that the ECU has minimum limits built in that will not allow reduce the gasoline injection to a small enough value. In this case turning down the Fuel Pressure would trick the computer into injecting less fuel for the same injector opening time.Statistics: Posted by BeRational — Fri Dec 11, 2009 6:55 pm
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