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05/17/2014 at 15:53 • Filed to: None
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"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
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Sometimes the need for speed generates unparallelled mechanical art.
This is the NOVI 3 liter hemi-headded four-cammed 4-valve Paxton supercharged engine. On it's debut it had 450hp. In the end in the 50's it had nearly 800. It could be heard (thanks to it's open exhaust) at 8,000 rpm all 2.5 miles around the track...from inside the concrete museum building. The draw-through supercharger up front was spinning the edge of the disc at supersonic speeds. Later on they figured to slow it down improving charge air temps and making for fewer shock waves in the induction flow (They hadn't broken the speed of sound in flight when they designed this thing so they didn't know any better)
vdub_nut: scooter snob
> Grindintosecond
05/17/2014 at 16:23 |
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They hadn't broken the speed of sound in flight when they designed this thing so they didn't know any better)
Holy shit.
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> vdub_nut: scooter snob
05/17/2014 at 16:54 |
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Design work started in 1940 then It raced after the war..spWed of sound was brokend in 47 so that info didnt come out till 50 probably.
Axel-Ripper
> Grindintosecond
05/17/2014 at 17:03 |
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Best part? It is very clearly made by a man with a Bridgeport and a lathe. By hand.