Direct Injection

[Clive Apps Techno-Logicals 416 510 0020]

> 
> Detrimental to power output - tell that to the Spitfire pilots that ate it big
> time when they met the Direct Fuel Injected Me109's etc.  Tell that to the
> drivers of other makes who ran up against Mercedes Direct Injected 300's in
> the early fifties.  Bosch and Mercedes routinely used Direct Injection thru
> the mid fifties.  Tis an old old idea laddies - and was making POWER long
> before Orbital was a stain on daddies leg. Try like operational on German
> aircraft engines in 1934.

Robert,

this couln't have possibly worked
it wasn't simulated on a computer before it was built
and it had no electronic controls

it's just not possible to make a FI system effeicient without hanging a few
hundred pounds of miscellaneous wiring and computer chips off it 

BTW very nice flame



Clive