McLaren floods engine while starting

[hardingfv32]

McLaren flooded their engine while starting it before Chinese GP.

1) How do you flood an electronic fuel injected engine? Do they have some kind of engineer controlled starting procedure that can very the fuel output leading to an error?

2) Fuel accumulated somewhere and had to be removed. May we assume the injectors are directed fuel into the plenum and not the individual intakes (trumpets)?

Brian

[Sean H]

McLaren flooded their engine while starting it before Chinese GP.

1) How do you flood an electronic fuel injected engine? Do they have some kind of engineer controlled starting procedure that can very the fuel output leading to an error?

2) Fuel accumulated somewhere and had to be removed. May we assume the injectors are directed fuel into the plenum and not the individual intakes (trumpets)?

Brian

I believe they said they had a fuel rail fail.

[piast9]

2) Fuel accumulated somewhere and had to be removed. May we assume the injectors are directed fuel into the plenum and not the individual intakes (trumpets)?

No, we may not. They spray directly into trumpets: