Contemporary Fuel Injection for Classic Trucks

Fuel injection has been around longer than most people think. In fact, in 1903 the Wright Brothers’ airplane was equipped with a crude but effective form that fed its engine. Shortly before World War II, Ed Winfield was granted a patent for mechanical fuel injection with Stuart Hilborn receiving a patent on his system shortly after the war, which was the design that quickly became the choice of race car builders.

By the ’50s, mechanical fuel injection was appearing on a variety of European cars and in 1957 General Motors’ Rochester fuel injection became available on Corvettes and Pontiac Bonnevilles. By 1958, development of electronically controlled systems began in earnest and Chrysler offered the Bendix Electrojector, but reliability