The Rochester Ramjet is an automotive fuel injection system developed by the Rochester Products Division of General Motors and first offered as a high-performance option on the Corvette and GM passenger cars in 1957. It was discontinued partway through 1965 in favor of the Chevrolet Big Block as a performance option. Unlike electronic fuel injection systems that would become common decades later, the Ramjet is purely mechanical and relies on vacuum and pressure signals to measure airflow and meter fuel.
Rochester Ramjet system installed on a 1957 Chevrolet 210
Fuel injection is the introduction of fuel in an internal combustion engine, most commonly automotive engines, by the means of an injector. This article focuses on fuel injection in reciprocating piston and Wankel rotary engines.
A cutaway model of a petrol direct-injected engine
Air-blast injection system for an 1898 diesel engine
Mechanical port injection system on a 1906 Antoinette 8V engine
1950s Rochester Ramjet mechanical port injection system (on a Chevrolet 283 engine)