Subject: Rotary Dragsters?
From: ACRE
Date: 8/30/2004, 4:33 PM


     Archie wrote:
     >
     > At a drag racers old time reunion today, I asked the attendees
     > if they have ever seen a nitro burning rotary dragster.
     > Some had no idea what I was talking about, but after a short
     > dissertation, no one had ever seen one.
     > My question is has anyone built one?
     > If so, it must not have been sucessful, or we may have heard
     > about it.
     > The big guns are getting about 14hp/cu in,
     > and based on displacement, I suspect the rotary might do better.
     > Archie

     See the previous message :)

     Paul Lamar

--> Ben Baltrusaitis wrote:

Archie,
I just talked to Jim Tanner @ Racing Beat today and they have a 13G for sale that was made for a drag car. Someone from the Middle East ordered it and then
didn't take it. It has around 1000hp. They may be using Nitro in that, but he didn't say. Price: $48,000.
Ben

 
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