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WRJJRS@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 12/13/2007 7:53:02 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
> ceengland@bellsouth.net writes:
> 
>      > Smokey disassembled the engine and crushed the car. The superheated
>      > intake idea and its refined effective systems died with smokey. And
>      > still the struggle goes on to achieve what has been done so long ago.
>      >
>      > Lynn E. Hanover
>      >
>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_Yunick
> 
>     Unbelievable genius. He used to write for 'Popular Science' magazine
>     back in the '60s. One of my favorite writers when I was a kid. Built a
>     small block Camaro that outran the big block cars on the NASCAR tracks
>     back then.
> 
>     Charlie
> 
> Smokey Yunick was a nascar legend for finding the loopholes in the 
> Nascar rule book.  His "best damm garage in town" was the place to learn 
> at the feet of a legend. His down home delivery caused many people to 
> underestimate him. The idea of an adbiatic (non cooled) engine has been 
> aroung for years, but Smokey came closer to building one that anybody 
> else has. He called the turbo on that engine a "homogenizer" but he was 
> the only one who really knew what he was doing with it at that time. My 
> favorite Smokey story was about the time Smokey's car did too many laps 
> for the size fuel cell required. They tore down the car and checked the 
> fuel cell. It was legal!  Then with the fuel source removed from the car 
> he started it up and drove back to his pit area, WITH NO FUEL TANK 
> INSTALLED.
> Bill Jepson
> 
>
Right; I'd forgotten about that trick. NASCAR spec'd the size of the 
tank, but there was no spec on the size of the fuel line. ;-)

Charlie