Word: carburetors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
SUPERCHARGED ENGINE, officially rated at 300 h.p., will be offered for $447 extra on Fords and Thunderbirds as Ford's answer to Chevrolet's 283-h.p. fuel injection engine. New Ford V-8 engine uses no manifold vacuum to draw fuel to carburetor; instead, fuel-air mixture is blown into cylinders...
...Oldsmobile has 17 body styles. The cars are more than 2 in. lower and 5 in. longer, have more graceful grilles, with double bumpers, 18% bigger windshields, and a new tail treatment. Horsepower: up another 37 h.p. to 277 h.p., with four-barrel carburetor and twin exhausts standard on most models...
...style with a flashy, V-shaped grille, sweeping tailfins and a lower top that cuts overall height 2 in., to 60 in. Biggest engineering change: a new V-8 engine for the Hudson Hornet, which turns up 255 h.p., 35 h.p. more than last year, with a four-barrel carburetor and dual exhausts as standard equipment...
...engine, turning up nearly 60 h.p. more than last year's most powerful Chevy engine. It will be standard equipment on Chevrolet's Corvette sports car and optional (estimated at $190 extra cost) on every other model. Instead of using a carburetor, the fuel-injection system shoots gasoline and air directly into each cylinder, thus gives faster cold-weather starts, quicker warmups, and better fuel economy...
...greatest engineering change in next year's models will be less spectacular; it will be the replacement of the carburetor by a fuel-injection system by at least one automaker. Long used in aircraft and racing cars, fuel injection has been thought too tricky and expensive for stock cars. But the rapidly rising cost of the new four-barrel carburetors has closed the cost gap while several practical stock-car systems have been developed. In present carburetors, gasoline is mixed with air, then sucked into the cylinders through the manifold. With a fuel-injection system, small pumps attached...