Nascar press conference

[Todd Young]

You're thinking of the Rochester fuel injection of the mid 60's Vettes.
It wasn't multiport, just a ram intake with mechanical injectors, and a
throttle body, but still one heck of an idea for it's time. There's a
modern Chevy version, call the Ramjet350 if I remember correctly, crate
motor available directly from your local Chevy dealer.

"Perry, Chris" wrote:
> 
> My parents '75 Fox (26 years ago) had Multi-Port FI (CIS).  If I remember
> right didn't the 1964 or 65 'Vette have Multi Port FI? And some other early
> 'merican iron?  Why didn't it catch on with American cars then?  Cost,
> complexity, stupidity?  Of course it could be that conspiracy with OPEC to
> make cars that use alot of fuel.  That's why they killed that inventor of
> the 100mpg carburetor.... ;^)
> 
> Chris Perry
> Remembering the 200 mi. round trip to get an ice cream cone the day after
> getting the 75 Fox.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lawrence C Leung [mailto:l.leung at juno.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 11:46 AM
> To: tnas at euronet.nl
> Cc: quattro at audifans.com; jerydquattro at hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: Nascar press conference
> 
> Yeah, that's 13 years ago. That's the point! (heck, even my '75 Saab was
> a Fuelie). The last carbureted US VAG products were the '76
> Rabbit/Scirocco and Dasher, and Audi Foxes ('mod 80 for the rest of the
> world).
> 
> LL - NY
> 
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 18:21:12 +0100 Tom Nas <tnas at euronet.nl> writes:
> >"Jeryd" <jerydquattro at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>Talking about carburetors?  WOW!  That is so old!  I was not even
> >around =
> >>when people used those things!
> >
> >My current 87 80 has a carb.
> >
> >Tom
> >

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