Stu Hilborn passes at 95

from National Speed Sport News:

Stu Hilborn was a pioneer of hot-rodding and an innovator in the use of fuel injectors on performance engines. Hilborn died Monday at age 96.

Hilborn became fascinated with making speed at an early age and began toying with the idea of using mechanical fuel injection to increase the horsepower of automotive engines.

After World War II, he used his ideas to become the first person in history to surpass 150 mph racing on dry lakes.

After Hilborn’s ideas made their way into a 1948 issue of Hot Rod Magazine, his fuel injection units became popular in virtually all types of automobile racing. He later transitioned into building electronic fuel injection products.

Like many of America's pioneering racers, Stu Hilborn figured out how to make world-class power with a simple, elegant, tunable design. Stu's products functioned as well as the OMG expensive Lucas and Kugelfischer systems used in Europe, with service and tuning freindly to America's rough and tumble, independent racers.