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Originally Posted by asphaltgambler View Post
Although today we look back and laugh at what looks completely ridiculous to us....................and honestly some of it is; these guys had limited access to any kind of flow benches, dynos, computers or programs, decent tooling, etc. To me they are almost mechanical genius's / engineering heros that were driven to succeed at going faster and better than their opponent and were not afraid to fail.
Tractor pulling was there about 30 years ago. Somebody ask Danny Dean what his secret to building engines was and he said keep stacking turbos on it until it blows up, and when you rebuild it, don't put the last turbo on.

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