Dragster Engine

[liqu]

More work done

http://forums.y-blocksforever.com/Topic136059.aspx

[cjperformance]

Really enjoying following your build. Great work.

[PackardV8]

Reminds me of Bruce Crower. He retired several years ago and has a bunch of machinery and tools at his home garage. Decided that he wanted to build a race car, but he didn't want to compete with his customers at the cam shop. So he located a 1932 Nash and built a car to run at Bonneville, utilizing the Nash straight eight block and heads. Just about everything else in the engine was hand-built and the car set several records at B'ville.

I'm a long-time fan of Bruce's and his decades of firsts and his company products will be a legend forever. Anyway, I was on the salt 1988 or so when he brought the '27 T roadster with the Nash and set an A-gas modified roadster record of 227.4. Unfortunately, the high boost cracked a cylinder head.

jack vines

[jsgarage]

Jack, there are crazy people everywhere. I worked at Lockheed Space Systems for awhile as an engineer and got to talking with a tech about racing. Seems he and two of his friends had gone to Bonneville in the '80s or '90s with a mid '30s Chrysler Airflow with a 6-71 roots blower strapped to a home made intake on the flathead straight 8. When I asked why on earth he would do such a thing, he said the idea sounded like fun.... and if I'da known about it at the time, I would have signed up too! They set a record but can't remember how fast. Stock flat-out for those old timers was about 88 mph.

[liqu]

Hi, I did more work, take a look if you have the time.

http://forums.y-blocksforever.com/Topic136059.aspx

[makin chips]

Wow!

Amazing work, sir. Absolutely marvelous!

[liqu]

Thanks

Cliff

[cjperformance]

Enjoying following this along. Great work.