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If the electronic fuel injection system would have worked, the 1957 Rambler Rebel would have produced 288 hp from the 327 V8, compared to the 283 hp from the 283 V8 in the fuelie Corvette with Rochester mechanical injection. Alas, cold-start difficulties and radio interference doomed the Electrojector to pre-production vehicles only for the '57 model year. Though Road & Track tested a Electrojector-equipped Rebel in late-1956, no member of the public was ever able to purchase one.
Later in the 1957 vehicle model year, Bendix marketed the same system on a small handful of Chrysler corporation cars that actually made it to mass production. 35 vehicles (Fury's, 300D's, Dodge D500's, or DeSoto Adventurers) equipped from the factory with dual 4-barrel carburetors were 'converted' to the Bendix EFI system. Unfortunately the same issues surfaced as with the Rambler setup, so 34 of the 35 cars were recalled and re-converted back to the dual-quad system.
The dual-rotor distributor seen in the image here was one of the most visible modifications both on the Rambler and Chrysler installations. The bottom rotor provided the timing inputs for the EFI system, while the upper rotor functioned as a regular ignition distributor.
The single remaining Electrojector vehicle is a 1958 DeSoto Adventurer Convertible (remember, there were only 82 of those made in the first place) with a 361 V8, living in Massachusetts. When the car was new, the EFI system was a $623 option on top of the $4230+ base price of the Adventurer Convertible - steep indeed! The car was restored with NOS parts around 2003.
The well-detailed restoration story describes how the restorer/owner reverse-engineered the complex transistor-infested control boxes only to learn that the unreliable nature of the systems was simply due to the poor quality of the electronic components available at the dawn of the transistor age. The restorer essentially recreated several of the circuit boards with modern componentry and the vehicle performs very consistently, smoothly, and reliably.
But back to the Puzzle - this is the Rambler 327 V8 with the Electrojector system.
Here's the original Puzzle picture along with several other of the same system on the DeSoto.
