Rochester Ramjet system installed on a 1957 Chevrolet 210
The Rochester Ramjet is an automotive fuel injection system developed by the Rochester Products Division of General Motors and first offered as a high-performance option on the Corvette and GM passenger cars in 1957. It was discontinued partway through 1965 in favor of the Chevrolet Big Block as a performance option.[1][2] Unlike electronic fuel injection systems that would become common decades later, the Ramjet is purely mechanical and relies on vacuum and pressure signals to measure airflow and meter fuel.[3]
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^Corvette 50th Anniversary. Publications International, Ltd. ISBN 978-0-7853-7987-4.
^Kayser, Kenneth (2007). The History of GM's Ramjet Fuel Injection on the Chevrolet V-8 and its Corvette Racing Pedigree. The Tachometer Press. ISBN 978-0984205004.
The RochesterRamjet is an automotive fuel injection system developed by the Rochester Products Division of General Motors and first offered as a high-performance...
fuel injection system. Also in 1957, General Motors introduced the RochesterRamjet option, consisting of a fuel injection system for the V8 engine in...
the RochesterRamjet high-performance option on Corvette and passenger cars at $484. In 1956 Oldsmobile were also experimenting with Rochester fuel injection...
185 hp (138 kW), 230 hp (170 kW), and 250 hp (190 kW) with optional RochesterRamjet fuel injection. Two versions of Chevrolet's 348 cu in (5,700 cc) V8...
6200 rpm and 290 lb⋅ft (393 N⋅m) at 4400 rpm of torque with the help of RochesterRamjet continuous mechanical fuel injection (closed-loop). These so-called...
body. In 1957 Chevy introduced its first fuel injected engine, the RochesterRamjet option on Corvette and Chevrolet Bel Air passenger cars, priced at...
passenger cars, although examples had existed earlier, such as the RochesterRamjet offered on high-performance versions of the Chevrolet small-block engine...
built by Rochester, it was similar in principle, but not identical, to the contemporary Chevrolet Bel Air installed with the RochesterRamjet continuous...
small block V8 that displaced 283 cu in (4,640 cc). It was fitted with RochesterRamjet fuel injection. 9.0:1 compression aluminum cylinder heads and a deep-sump...
best description of this is thrust augmentation. Other designs includes ramjets or even a complete turbojet engine. Some, known as rocket-on-rotor systems...
Dornier Do 217, powered with an additional Lorin-Staustrahltriebwerk (Lorin-ramjet), as far as possible over the Atlantic before releasing it. For the Do 217...
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front end and side coves; the taillamp fins were deleted. An optional "Ramjet" fuel injection system was made available midway through the 1957 model...
Gibson, Chris; Buttler, Tony (2007). British Secret Projects: Hypersonics, Ramjets and Missiles. Midland Publishing. pp. 47–53. ISBN 978-1-85780-258-0. Goodrum...
enlarged to 283 cu in (4.6 L). The engine was fitted with a Ramjet fuel injection system from Rochester, the first GM engine shown to the public with injection...
27, 1939. First Ramjet powered flight: was made by Petr Yermolayevich Loginov in a Polikarpov I-15bisDM modified with 2 DM-2 ramjets on January 25, 1940...
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