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Lehanover@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 12/13/2007 4:53:29 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> lendich@optusnet.com.au writes:
> 
>> Their comments on the technology are as mentioned before either high 
>> compression or intake heating are required. Supercharging or intake is 
>> also a way to high cylinder pressure. Right now they say that the 
>> trouble for the tech is controlling the timing event. They say the 
>> system works well but doesn't transition to high load well. Right now 
>> another hopeful technology that's not ready quite yet.
>> Bill Jepson
> 
> 
> About 30 years ago a guy named Yanuck built a V-2 from part of a small 
> block Chevy. It had a small turbo to maintain positive inlet pressure 
> and the exhaust system strung through the inlet manifold. It was mounted 
> in an old Mercury Capri. It would pull away from a stop at near zero RPM 
> in top gear. It had the Capri carb. Got great milage. Never detonated. 
> Was quiet.
> GM engineers drove it with him in the seat beside them. One couldn't 
> believe that the exhaust system was coiled inside the intake, so he put 
> his hand on it and burned himself comprehensively.
> Smokey was paid to work on various projects for GM. This car and engine 
> were not on the GM list, and was all Smokys ideas. He wanted to maintain 
> control of the idea, and GM wanted to buy it outright. So instead of 
> buying a license from Smokey and being the top of the heap today, GM 
> shoved the pistol down behind their belt buckle and pulled the trigger.
> 
> 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