mayf; You must have been fooling with Wright-Cyclone 3350 cid engines. They
worked well in B29s and DC-7s and I think Super Connies. Never seen one at
the salt but 3350 inches with 2 stage blower and turbo compond hemi can't be
bad. R. Fox
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From: DrMayf@aol.com <DrMayf@aol.com>
To: kturk@ala.net <kturk@ala.net>; v4gr@rcn.com <v4gr@rcn.com>;
landspeedracer@email.msn.com <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>;
MikeJ@speedrecordclub.softnet.co.uk <MikeJ@speedrecordclub.softnet.co.uk>;
land-speed@autox.team.net <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 05:15 PM
Subject: Re: compounding
>Ok, when I went to school this was called a blow down turbine. We had
several
>to play with. The concept was the turbine shaft was connected to the
>crankshaft and the turbine was fed from the exhaust of all the cykinders
(big
>radial mutha). This was simply a way to recover some of the 1/3 of
available
>heat being thrown overboard. Our systems never had any additional fuel
added,
>but I suppose they could have. The ones we had were maybe 18 inches in
>diameter.
>mayf
>
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