Chevrolet's injection is a premature baby, but it's still alive and kicking. It was prematured by a sudden jolt from the collective Plymouth and Ford styling departments, and without a major body change Chev needed a potent sales weapon. The decision to bring out fuel injection was made very, very late in 1956—virtually on the introduction deadline.
At that time it was still what engineers call a "breadboard layout" a combination of units that work properly, but aren't fully developed and integrated into one mechanism. It's still very much that way. Moreover, the Rochester engineers are very competent carburetor designers, but didn't have nearly enough time to adapt their techniques to the wholly different problems of injection. In spite of the fact that the new arrival had long been expected, its arrival was not without complications.
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