"John B. Slocomb" wrote in message
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On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 07:05:03 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"DoN. Nichols" wrote in message
...

Guilty as charged. I haven't worked on engines much for years,
so I don't know when the switchover happened -- especially for
domestic
vehicles. The BMW 2002 had a carb. My Mazda GLCs had a carb. The
Mazda
B2600 I think had fuel injection, but I'm not sure. I do know
that
it
had a real timing chain (like my MGAs had) instead of one of the
belts
which fail in some cars at awkward times -- or even slip without
failing, doing nasty things to the timing. :-) The Mazda Navajo
(actually a Ford Explorer) has fuel injection and a weird ignition
system. I'm not sure what my Nissan Cube has, but I like it.
Lots
of
inside space and headroom, without taking too much outside space.
:-)

Enjoy,
DoN.


The first American fuel injection I saw was a pre-production
controller for the 1976 Seville in a GM lab.


Wasn't the first American made production automobile available with
fuel injection the 1957 Chevy Corvette?
--
Cheers,

John B.

I built production test stations for the electronic controls added to
cars in the mid 1970's to meet government requirements. The
technologies are considerably older, some invented for aviation,
others for scientific instruments, but weren't economically practical
or reliable enough for typical consumer inattention without
considerable development expense. Antilock brakes first appeared in
1929 and Diesels have used fuel injection since the late 1900's.

-jsw