{"id":50681,"date":"2025-11-26T22:49:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T22:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=50681"},"modified":"2025-11-26T22:49:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T22:49:05","slug":"autos-gdi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/autos-gdi\/","title":{"rendered":"Autos: GDI"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Self-tutoring about autos: the tutor mentions GDI.<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe following is according to my understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\nGDI, or gasoline direct injection, is a much higher pressure injection system than plain fuel injection: perhaps thousands of psi for GDI, versus only around 40 to 60 psi with plain fuel injection.<\/p>\n<p>\nWhile GDI can offer some advantages, a disadvantage can be that it sprays fuel at such high pressure that it can blow past the piston rings, so gasoline gets into the engine oil. Gasoline is a solvent, so it can dilute and thin the engine oil. It can set up a vicious circle: the diluted oil might make a looser seal around the piston, allowing more fuel to blow by from the GDI, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m not familiar with this, but learning of it, I looked up our two vehicles to see if they have GDI. I&#8217;m happy to say that, so far as I&#8217;ve learned, neither does.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uti.edu\/blog\/automotive\/what-are-direct-injection-engines\">Universal Technical Institute<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=almk76DeaRc\">YouTube: Scotty Kilmer: &#8220;The Big Problem with GDI Car Engines&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about autos: the tutor mentions GDI. The following is according to my understanding. GDI, or gasoline direct injection, is a much higher pressure injection system than plain fuel injection: perhaps thousands of psi for GDI, versus only around 40 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/autos-gdi\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Autos: GDI<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[3872],"class_list":["post-50681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autos","tag-gdi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50681"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50686,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50681\/revisions\/50686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}