Autobiography of Stu Hilborn

[Fiat48]

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Expert: "How fast. have you gone with the fuel injector?"
S.H.: "I just finished it and haven't run it yet."
Expert: "Tell me how it works."
I explain the system.
Expert: "How do you time the fuel injector to the engine?"
S.H.: "It's not timed. It's a constant-flow system."
Expert: "It won't work."
S.H.: "Why not?"
Expert: "Because you are injecting fuel into the engine when the intake valve is closed. There is no place for the fuel to go."
S.H.: "Yes, but that doesn't matter. My engine runs at 5000 rpm and the time element is so short between openings that the fuel just accumulates in the port for a fraction of a second."
Expert: "Every fuel injection system in the world is timed to the engine. Why do they go to all that trouble and expense if it isn't necessary?"
S.H. : "I don't know, Maybe it's just follow the leader."
Expert: "They must gain something or they wouldn't do it."
S.H.: "What do you gain by interrupting the fuel flow 40 times per second?"
Expert: "I don't know but everyone does it. Your system won't work."
S.H.: " I'm going to find out."
End of conversation
Full story here: http://www.metalshapers.org/nitrogeezers/Hilborn%20Bio.htm

[Cole Man II]

Fiat48,
Link not working.
How the hell are you.
Cole Man.

[Cole Man II]

Works now, never mind.

[bordsmnj]

i read that whole thing last night. good stuff.

[Fiat48]

I really enjoyed it. Especially when he stands up to Enzo Ferrari. Then the crippled Ferrari engine they receive with tiny intake ports. :skull:

[superdave013]

that first fuel injector is on the wall in the lobby at Hilborn

[GofastRacer]

Very good reading, thanks for sharing Bob!.. :cool:
Dave, that injector has been there forever, I remember seeing it there in the early 80's, and it looked like it already been there for a long time!.. :)