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Well, you don't want to inject more fuel than what the amount of air inside the cylinder will allow to burn. Any excess will just come out as black smoke, and may eventually damage the engine.

Older engines have mechanical fuel pumps which limits the amount, newer engines may have electronically controlled injectors and even exhaust monitoring to keep them from adding too much fuel.

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