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alot of the early cars used cork floats which as you may guess are not as good as brass floats. Miller has many patents on carburators and the casting of aluminum. Seems to me that the first fuel pumps were out in the late teens or early 20's and they were vacuum operated. Until fuel pumps came into being the fuel had to run downhill to get there! Early race cars had pumps to pressurize the tank and force gas to the carbs. If you lived up a large hill and owned a model T ford you backed up the hill or you parked
it at the bottom.
tt(oldgoaly)
 
Harry Miller's "Master" carburetors are what got him started in the racing community. They were considered to be some of the best carburetors on the American market at the time, and they used an unusual "rotary" jet design for fueling (I'm explaining this from memory-my copy of Brogeson's history of Miller is not in the same building as the computer). It was through this that Miller got the chance to redesign and build Bob Burman's Peugeot motor (this during the early parts of WW1, before America was involved), from which the Leo Goossen-refined Miller, Offenhauser, and Meyer-Drake/DGS motors sprang.

-Wm.
 
I'll join in this one. 50 points for whoever gets this one!

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