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Cranking fuel

Cranking fuel

📄️ After Start Enrichment

After-start enrichment is important because an engine that has just fired up is still stabilizing and needs extra fuel for a short period before it can idle cleanly. Even if cranking enrichment got the engine to start, the intake ports, combustion chambers, and sensors are still cold, fuel isn’t atomizing well yet, and airflow is uneven. This creates a natural tendency for the mixture to go lean right after the engine catches. After-start enrichment temporarily adds extra fuel to prevent stumbling, stalling, or surging during these first few seconds. As the engine warms slightly and airflow smooths out, the enrichment tapers off, handing control back to the base fuel table. Without after-start enrichment, engines often start but won’t stay running or will run very roughly right after ignition.

📄️ Fuel priming pulse

The priming pulse essentially "primes" the intake before the car starts by spraying a pulse of fuel into it. This wets the intake walls which helps atomization by vaporizing the fuel from the turbulence caused when the intake valve is opened, sucking tbe pulse into the engine. For cars with long intake runners and injectors far from the valves, this is more important to tune so there is no delay in fuelling when cranking is initiated. For cars like Miatas with injectors spraying almost directly onto the back of the intake valves, this setting isn't strictly necessary to tune.