Word: carburetor
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...time may come when doctors will be able to take out all sorts of damaged or imperfect organs and replace them with little more difficulty than changing the carburetor in an automobile...
General Motors' Corvair, most radical of the Big Three compacts, has had the most complaints, though many were the minor bugs that often afflict a completely new car. Chevrolet took advantage of the steel strike shutdown to correct most of them, including a slipping fan belt and carburetor icing. Biggest complaint against the Corvair is its gas mileage, which sometimes runs well under 20 m.p.g., rarely measures up to other compacts. Part of the trouble may be its gasoline heater, which eats up to a quart of gas an hour. Chevrolet engineers have also remodeled the Corvair...
...whole engine is an ingenious exercise in mechanical geometry. As the rotor turns, its corners form three moving cavities that first increase in volume and then decrease. When a cavity, still small but growing, passes the intake port leading to the carburetor, it draws in fuel and air. Then the cavity decreases in volume, compressing the mixture. The engine's single spark plug fires; the exploding gas pushes the rotor and shaft. At the end of the power stroke, a corner of the rotor uncovers the exhaust port, and the burned gases are swept out of the engine. Meanwhile...
Critical in the engine's design were the metal "piston rings" at the tips of the triangle that keep the chambers gastight. But NSU says the metal strips show no wear after 300 hours of fullspeed operation. The engine uses a conventional carburetor and can be made to burn many kinds of fuel, including diesel oil. It is not for sale yet, but NSU expects to have it debugged and in large production in about two years...
...production or of orders. But Chairman Hurley had another innovation to announce. Calling in the press, he displayed (but did not demonstrate) a radical new internal combustion engine billed as the greatest advance since the diesel. It has no pistons or valves, only two moving parts; there is a carburetor to mix air and gasoline, a single spark plug, a rotor that drives the crankshaft. Beyond that. Hurley refused details. CW, he said, had developed the engine in conjunction with West Germany's NSU Werke, makers of autos and motorcycles, and had exclusive North American rights. In the works...