I hate to say it, but it’s just how the ShamWow guy put it: “You know the Germans make good stuff…”
-Bosch launched its VP44 radial piston distributor style injection pump in 1996. It’s first application was for a 4-cylinder Opel engine. Later on, of course, a 6-cylinder version made its way into the 5.9L Cummins program (starting with ’98½ model Dodges).
-Right after this (1997), Bosch introduced common-rail injection to the world. All manufacturing for these systems began in its Bamberg, Germany, facility.
-Also a first, Bosch released the first ever Electronic Diesel Control (EDC, pictured above) for IDI diesel engines in 1986. The first car to use EDC was a BMW.
We’ll have a little history on the man that got it all rolling in the 19th Century, Robert Bosch himself, in the October issue.