As I recall it was the Ford Thunderbird SC 3.9L  V6 engine with the
supercharger. Dyno readings can sometimes be misleading depending on
who is running it. Was that the HP number Dave Blanton was claiming or
was that done on an independent shop dyno. There was a lot of
controversy about that as Blanton did not use the same measure of
HP as the rest of the world did (and still does).

The dyno test was performed by an independent shop. It is no Blanton
hype but of course, these numbers can still be off. Here the test
report: http://selover.net/~holger/tmp/dyno.gif.

This engine hangs now from the firewall of Steve Craigle's BD-4. Steve
has a supercharged V6 from the same batch as John Steere's. He flew it
for 15 hours but couldn't get either the pre-ignition or detonation (not
sure) resolved and took my engine to continue the 40 hours test program.
Steve's SC is up for sale.

BTW, the owner of the red BD-4 next to Steere's on your picture, Jim
Huber, tried to get a rotary to work for a couple of years but finally
decided to go fly his bird instead.

- Holger

 
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