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Old 18th May 2014, 20:54
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Constant Mass Flow

A carby is very good at mixing fuel and air at the appropriate ratio when mass flow is constant, eg an aircraft engine at constant RPM. When you change the RPM constantly such as in a car in traffic the carby cant keep up and this is when fuel injection comes into its own.

I would be interested to see if petrol direct injection would improve combustion/atomisation/metering over a carby in an aircraft engine
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