SUPERCHARGING BOOSTS FREE HORSEPOWER

SUPERCHARGING BOOSTS FREE HORSEPOWER
Hemmings Motor News’ Mike McNessor does a deep dive on SUPERCHARGING BOOSTS FREE HORSEPOWER, starting in 1906! When you discuss maximizing an engine’s volumetric efficiency, you are: –Boring everybody else at the party (as usual); –Explaining to your spouse why it’s crucial that you drop a couple of grand on a supercharger for your sports car; –Engaging in a 100-plus-year-old quest to get the most out of an internal combustion engine. If you said all of the above, you’d be correct. ...
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THE GMC BLOWER & MY PAL BRUCE!

Veteran racer and supercharging and fuel injection guru, Gale Banks, blogs about the good old days and the great new days. I’d rather be Blown Than Injected, so reads Bruce Geisler’s t-shirt. It’s the early 1960s, we’re in the pits at Bonneville wrenching our Studebakers. It’s over 100 degrees at an altitude of 4,219 feet, no wonder my Moon air density meter is only reading 81%. Despite the low ambient air density, my Hilborn-injected, Isky-cammed, Small Block Chevy has pushed my ’53 Stude to...
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