ABC's of Fuel Injection

[1project2many]

Neat reading from a historical perspective. Educational, and maybe even thought provoking.
http://chevy.oldcarmanualproject.com...tion/index.htm

[EagleMark]

That was very cool! I started to recognize it after a few pages! We actually had one in Auto Shop in high school... It was antique then... in 70's...

[RobertISaar]

that made a whole lot of references to GM using a continuous injection system..... which i've never seen on a GM product? were the first cadillac FI engines of the early 70s like that?

[EagleMark]

Think late 50's early 60's mechanical Injection.

[RobertISaar]

oh damn, that is old... the mechanical rochester injection setups used on the corvettes?

[1project2many]

Yes, the Corvette systems. They were also available in the full size cars if you were willing to ante up. There were some special race applications that were equipped with it as well. And it also applied to a rare Pontiac FI system.

http://www.mecum.com/auctions/lot_de...D=FL0110-89882

Some of what I find interesting is that the functions necessary in mechanical FI were retained in many EFI systems. It can be surprising to realize how much was known 50 years ago... and to think about where we might be today if this system had caught on.