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The Lost Art Of Mechanical Fuel Inection
Tyler S:
Nice writeup in Road & Track Magazine
https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a26665/mechanical-fuel-injection/
mdsalemi:
Thanks for that. I absolutely loved the subheading...
Like clockwork—just weirder and full of flammable liquid.
Tyler S:
Michael, I got a kick out of “ it looks like Rube Goldberg's toaster.“
66andBlue:
This is another gem ... or stinger:
Take the plungers. They run in steel barrels with micron-level clearance. No seals separate them from the oil in the pump's sump. Their fit alone holds back the 400 psi of fuel they can produce. All this for a marque where production inconsistencies mean body panels don't always fit when swapped between cars.
mdsalemi:
--- Quote from: Tyler S. on November 18, 2018, 17:39:18 ---Michael, I got a kick out of “ it looks like Rube Goldberg's toaster.“
--- End quote ---
It dawned on me, Tyler, that not all of our non-USA friends, and even those USA members who might be either late or very late baby boomers, or even Gen X or Millenials, might not have a clue as to the Rube Goldberg reference--either the man (a cartoonist) or the wacky machines he "invented" in his cartoons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine
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