I can remember commenting to a Chevrolet field engineer who used to hang out at Dad's shop on a regular basis that I was disappointed about Chevy dropping the fuel injection option early in the life of the 327- - - -1964, maybe? He shared a few little -known facts about the Rochester fuel injection system with me:

#1: "General Motors loses money on every one we sell!"

#2: "The only gain over carburetion comes at wide-open throttle. At low end and midrange, carbureted engines out-torque fuel injected ones."

#3: "If every engine we produce was equipped with the best fuel injection we can build, regardless of cost, and somebody came up with carburetion in its present stage of development, it would be hailed as a major advance in fuel technology!"

How's that for bursting a young hotrodder's bubble?

Then Volkswagen came out with electronic fuel injection in 1966, and all the rules changed! Of course, the 66 VW Fastback shared a clock circuit frequency with CB radio, and playful truckers with linear amplifiers could shut off the fuel injection when a Volkswagen was halfway through a passing maneuver! They changed the frequency in 67!
Jerry

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