Carburetor vs. fuel injection
I think what you meant to say was: "Carburetor vs. electronic fuel injection"
All Diesel (compression-ignition) engines use fuel injection, and many spark-ignition (Otto or Wankel) engines use fuel injection of one kind or another. The first patent for a fuel injection system was issued to George Bailey Brayton in 1872, so it's not exacly new technology. The first fuel injected engines for passenger car use became available in late 1930s and early 1940s.
Early mechanical injection systems (except for air-blast injection) typically used injection valves with needle-like nozzles in combination with one or multiple relatively sophisticated helix-controlled injection pumps that both metered fuel and created injection pressure. They were well-suited for intermittent multi-point injection systems as well as all sorts of conventional direct injection and chamber injection systems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimler-Benz_DB_601 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_801 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Merlin
I would daresay that any one of these designs would survive an EMP and keep turning out enormous horsepower with no trouble at all.
Haywood, raise your head, man.
Yes
Do you even know what a carburetor is? It's a nice thought but there's no comparison.
Which survives an EMP though
You got me.
Hangs head in shame...
Both, potentially. There is a common misconception of what an EMP blast is capable of. They are measured in the amount of free electrons per sq/meter. Think how much energy it takes to fry something, and then imagine there has to be that amount of energy per squared space of said thing, and that energy has to exists in all space around it at the same density. enough electrons in the air to fry small components, and to my understanding, you're likely dead. The equipment that gets fried is anything plugged into an outlet or directly connected to a large object of conducting material. The massive amount of surface area available, and conducting properties allow for all that energy to blast anything connected too it. Phones, two way radios, pacemakers will continue to work.
I'm not very adept at car mechanics, so I don't know how well insulated those systems are, but they could potentially survive an EMP. If it's a lot of conductive metal attached too the system, than it might be fucked.
Or I am wrong and just talking out of my ass.
Does the gasoline refinement equipment survive as well?
my 6.5 diesel is fuel injected, and uses a mechanical rotating pump to time and feed the infectors. - there are zero electronics involved in the fuel system, and it has 314k miles on the clock. would survive.
What fucking kind of wanna-be male are you? You don't know how to keep a carb functional? Takes as close to no effort as you can get... either Use the thing once a month or drain the float bowl. Or maybe you're inept and can't be bothered to learn how to Tune a carb (should some meathead before you have fucked it all up)? Which is it?
There is no Functional improvement with fuel injection ~ it doesn't do anything Better, just Different... like saying the toaster is better than a skillet for making a piece of toast. Both get the job done, but I will Forever take the toast off the skillet as tasting better.
Thinking about the ~500k miles I've covered on motorcycles with carbs (usually a bank of 4 that need to work together, way more complex than a car carb), I've never been put down anywhere because of the carbs.
There is no point in having a conversation with someone that speaks from their ass...
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