My idea is to modify a diesel injection system to increase the fueling into the engine.
The signal to an injector is a series of 0.1-1.5ms pulses. I would like to analyse the pulses and then send out my own pulse to extend some of the injection pulses. I want to do this all in real time.
Is this possible on an arduino? I have never used one before so I'd like to know if it is possible and what product would be suitable.
Yes, assuming the calculations are not that time consuming.
The Arduino is 16 MHz, so this is in the us scale which is way within limits. I don't know how critical the rise and fall times are, but even that should be possible.
You need some additional circuitry though, because the Arduino itself cannot handle 12V signals. For the input, you need so called level shifting (from 12 V to 5 V), see A-Quick-Guide-on-Logic-Level-Shifting for more explanation.
For the output, you need a 12 V signal (or use a voltage booster to 12V), and a transistor (and probably some resistors) that is connected to the Arduino for the signal and to the 12V and the diesel injection system for the 12V.
