Quote Originally Posted by 58boner View Post
Back in the 60's a dude named Smokey Yunick who also just happened to be a former B-17 Bomber pilot found himself to be a successful race car builder in the new burgeoning sport of NASCAR stock car racing. Having a dyno in his shop and an inquisitive mind he was known for his many...shall we say innovations that gave his cars an advantage on the track. He fashioned a supercharger that worked off of vanes he had welded to the spinning clutch assembly inside of the cars bell housing and recorded huge horsepower gains on the dyno but was unable to conceive a way to get the air to the air intake in such a manner that would elude detection of the tech inspectors. He did lots of stuff like that such as placing air pressure sensors in the wheel wells of test cars so he could collect actual data when he made changes to the wheel opening shapes on his race cars to reduce drag without visiting a wind tunnel.
As with anything if you want to do it right you better know what you are doing. So in building this truck I did a lot of research. Smokey did some great work with other parts of the engine like heads and intakes. I read a complete book just about him and what he did and did not do and why. Great reading.

Tony