> 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