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Fuel Injection 101

A recent graduate of Airflow Performance’s weekend program found much to commend upon returning to school.

By Steve Ells

Don Rivera at the airflow bench. Note the shaped air inlet atop the API fuel control being tested. The hoses are connections to an adjacent fuel-flow bench.

For the first half of Saturday we sat in a small classroom and were spoon-fed an easily digestible diet of fuel injection system theory by Don Rivera, the head cheese at Airflow Performance Incorporated (API). We were here to learn about fuel injection in general and the company’s system in particular, and this part of the curriculum provided the necessary primer for what was to come. …


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