The History of GM’s Ramjet Fuel Injection on the Chevrolet V-8
and its’ Corvette Racing Pedigree

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609 Pages | 8.5" x 11" Softcover | 1000+ B&W Images

ABOUT THE BOOK

The General Motors Fuel Injection history can not be told just by itself because the GM Fuel Injection timeline parallels that of the Chevrolet Corvette and the Chevrolet V-8:

-- The 1953 GM Motorama Corvette Dream-car promised an American sports car to compete with Europe's best.

-- The 1955 Chevrolet V-8 engine promised a powerful engine with unparalleled reliability and durability.

-- The GM Fuel Injection system promised unsurpassed engine performance with exceptional fuel economy!

Every step at the Chevrolet Motor Division in the development of the Corvette and the V-8 were in preparation for Fuel Injection and every step in the development of Fuel Injection was for the Corvette V-8.

The General Motors executives responsible for the iconic Chevrolet Corvette, the Chevrolet V-8 and the legendary "Ramjet" Fuel Injection program at Chevrolet Motor Division were Harlow H. Curtice, Harley J. Earl, Edward N. Cole, Harry Barr, Zora Arkus-Duntov and John Dolza.

Without the generous use of the General Motors Media Archives Photo Collection there could be no such book by any author.

It was a great surprise and privilege for the author to read the original GM Photographic Log Books and decipher where Fuel Injection photographs were hidden all these years. Had the original photographer's assignment and description not been so obscure who knows if they would still be there!

The story the GM Media Archive's photographs tell of the trials and tribulations necessary to bring such a remarkable and significantly important automotive technology to market, three decades in advance of governmental regulations for fuel economy and exhaust emissions that would mandate it, needs to be told.

Nearly 40 years of engineering and management experience in General Motors and 30 years researching the Rochester Fuel Injection system, provides the author with insight and perspective necessary to tell the GM Fuel Injection story including the interactions between the Corporation, Styling, R&D, Chevrolet Motor, Rochester Products, AC Spark Plug, Packard Electric and Delco-Remy divisions.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments		i
Foreword		iv
Introduction		vi
Chapter One: The Founding of General Motors		1
Chapter Two: GM—The Second Twenty-Five Years		11
Chapter Three: GM's First Fuel Injection System Ca. 1955		43
Chapter Four: The New 1956 Corvette		69
Chapter Five: Marketing the 1956 Corvette		97
Chapter Six: Ed Cole Demands Fuel Injection for 1957		115
Chapter Seven: 1957 Corvette Start of Production		177
Chapter Eight: Upheaval at Rochester Products Division		219
Chapter Nine: Fuel Injection Production Increases		345
Chapter Ten: The RPO-579D Cold Air Induction Corvette		345
Chapter Eleven: GM Fuel Injection 1958-1965		421
Postscript		449
Appendix I: Photo Appendix		465
Appendix II: Drawing Appendix		499
Appendix III: Instruction Manuals		551
Appendix IV: Stock Lists		569
Appendix V: Field Service Bulletins		574
Appendix VI: Fuel Injection Recall Notices		583
Appendix VII: Passenger and Corvette V-8 Engine Lists for 1957 Models		587

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December 2007, Softcover
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