Caddy 472-500

[mrvette]

Yes, and that Newport News facility is still in existance,  rebuilding caddy
computers (very expensive---proprietary parts)....
the facility was bought by Allied Signal....then Siemens of all people...
so it goes back to Germany again.....:-)))     GENE

Dave Williams wrote:
> 
> -> Pontiac,  I talked to the original Bendix engineers in Newport News
> -> Va.   they said it was their own system developed for GM...and
> -> specifically done for those engines....the Olds 350, caddy 425, &
> -> 500...
> -> totally differant than anything VW/Bosch could have done....
> 
>  True, it's a different system.  But there are strong similarities
> between the DFI and the Bosch D/L-Jet - Bosch licensed Bendix' injection
> patents and derived technology in the mid '60s, where it was basically
> gathering dust from the vacuum tube days.  Bosch took advantage of the
> advent of the transistor and developed the Bendix system into a
> marketable product.  In the late '60s Bendix foresaw a renaissance for
> EFI with the coming of smog legislation and did their own modern
> interpretation of the Electrojector.  The system they delivered to
> Cadillac in the mid '70s was much simpler than their development models
> in order to cut the lead time and price, which was a factor even for
> Cadillac.
> 
>  I'm don't know why Bendix got out of the EFI business, but most modern
> EFI systems are based on Bendix technology.  The prime component of that
> technology:  the Bendix patents on the solenoid-type fuel injector.
> 
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