Turbo tricks

[Peter Lindberg]

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Are these the same people that stuck a 750 hp to 1000 hp rocket turbine
into 
ford 9 inch rear ends and promptly got banned by every race track in the 
universe as unfair to megabuck dragsters.  Remember seeing them for a
while as 
a kid and then they went away.

If the first ingredient ain't Habanero, then the rest don't matter.
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Currently Interred in the Peoples Democratic Republic of California -
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Robert Harris <bob at bobthecomputerguy.com>
<<

I wouldn't know about them being banned, but yes, I think they did make
an engine designed to connect directly to the rear end.  They also made
rocket powered go-karts.

In the early '70s, my Father built a dragster using 3 turbonique
engines.  It had 1800 hp, and would accelerate to 60mph in .75 sec.
(I forget what the quarter mile time was.)  Yes, rather unfair to those
using piston engines, even turbocharged ones.  He wasn't banned from any
tracks though.  He was about to switch over to a Hydrogen Peroxide
rocket engine with even more power, but had a crash and decided to
retire from racing (fortunately with no permanent injuries).