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Carter BBD 2-barrel carburetor on a 1968 Plymouth with a Chrysler LA 318 motor. Carter adapted carburetors for Willys Jeep four-cylinder engines, waterproofing them for water crossings and making it possible to keep the engine going even on a steep incline (the YS carburetor). Carter also produced the first American four-barrel carburetor, used ...
Once the carburetor leaves a stable condition, the float is influenced by both gravity and inertia, resulting in inaccurate fuel metering and a reduction in engine performance as the air-fuel ratio changes, becoming either too lean or too rich for maximum engine performance, and in some cases, stopping the engine. [9] Float type carburetors are ...
A carburetor (also spelled carburettor or carburetter) [1] [2] [3] is a device used by a gasoline internal combustion engine to control and mix air and fuel entering the engine. [4] Carburetors can be quite complex but the three primary methods of adding fuel to the intake air in the main metering circuit is through the pressure difference ...
Villiers, used on UK motorcycles and small engines. Walbro and Tillotson carburetors for small engines. Weber carburetor, Italian, now made in Spain, owned by Magneti Marelli. Wheeler–Schebler Carburetor Company. Zama Group, primarily an OEM provider. Zenith Carburetor Company, American subsidiary of Société du carburateur Zénith.
Zenith Carburetor (later the Fuel Devices Division of Bendix Corporation) was an American manufacturer of gasoline engine management systems and components, chiefly carburetors and filters. It was founded in Detroit, Michigan in 1911 as a subsidiary of the French Société du carburateur Zénith .
A pressure carburetor is a type of fuel metering system manufactured by the Bendix Corporation for piston aircraft engines, starting in the 1940s. It is recognized as an early type of throttle-body fuel injection and was developed to prevent fuel starvation during inverted flight .
Charles Nelson Pogue (15 September 1897 – 1985) was a Canadian mechanic and inventor who in the 1930s filed a series of US patents for a miracle carburetor (sometimes called the Winnipeg carburetor [1]) that would allegedly enable a car to attain 200 miles per US gallon (1.2 L/100 km; 240 mpg ‑imp); it was described as a vaporising carburetor or sometimes a catalytic carburetor.
Original design incorporating a leather bellows which was replaced by a piston. This image was published 1908 and 1909 A pair of SU carburettors from an MGB. The SU carburettor is a constant-depression carburettor that was made by a British manufacturer of that name or its licensees in various designs spanning most of the twentieth century.