Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 23:18:48 -0500 From: "Ben Millard" <bmillardnopsamraccess.com> Subject: Re: Building a Better Carb.
Googolplex wrote in message <70c5ie$i4u$8nopsam.ripco.com>... >J W E (elgersmadnopsaml.msn.com) wrote: >: So, while piddling with a needle valve it all came to me in a brilliant >: flash of a moment. If the hole were actually a needle valve, then when the >: valve was nearly mechanically shut, the hole would no longer need be drilled >: smaller, but at an incline of specific angles. Meanwhile, back >:in bat cave, robin went over some significant details >: conserning the fuel pump, and the hydraulic controls behind the pressure >: relief valves used to feed the excesses of the high pressure fuel pump, back >: The Flavored Coffee Guy, and >: the Free Carberator Jets. > >Then the Joker came up with a thing he called "a fuel injector;" Friends, The Fuel Injector was quite a bit later than the SIDE DRAFT CARBURETTOR. (Mine on the 99 was a Solex, from the UK.) If I'm not mistaken, this fits exactly the description above, a tapered conic opening with a matching needle that moves up and down in response to airflow, preserving a relationship between airflow and cross-section. The metering is by vacuum diaphram working against a spring. Worked well, started in all conditions (including-no lie-40 below zero[F or C, its the same down there]) and wasn't too deadly to mantain. I hate it when I invent something someone else has patented and already gotten rich off of it. (Mine was the Technicrane.) Cheers Ben