[Healeys] Fuel direct injection

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Apparently, GDI isn't all that modern, either. Our neighbor's
Gullwing--a 1955, 
I think--has GDI. 

 

 

Gary Anderson
Editor-in-Chief,
The Star Magazine
Mercedes-Benz Club of America

Editor-at-Large, the
Austin-Healey Magazine

 

 Actually, the Gullwing's fuel injection works very
differently from modern direct injection. It was direct injection into the
cylinders but done with a mechanical fuel pump, so big problems if the engine
was allowed to idle for long periods of time, and in fact, whenever the engine
shut down, the fuel continued to pour into the cylinders -- not a great idea
washing the cylinders with raw gasoline.

But it certainly was the first
practical car engine with direct fuel injection, and Mercedes was a serious
pioneer of that technology.