Going thru my collection of gasser photos and just noticed the original SWC Swindler only supplied fuel to two of the injector tubes. Strange.
Old pic or new pic? Maybe it doesn’t make full passes anymore so they just supply enough for cackling?
Are you...sure...there isn't two more lines coming out of the opposite side of the barrel valve, and into the opposite side of the injector body ? Mike
They were gonna run nitrous in the other tubes. I started to say something here and realized that I really do not have a legitimate answer.
Probably an attempt to keep the rear cylinders from running fat. An original 6-71 blower would have 3-lobe rotors with a helix. That would bias the flow to the rear. At least that's my guess...
Yup! That picture blows my hypothesis into the weeds! But that's life! Make suppositions with only some of the information and get burned... You know what they say: Never assume anything, because when you assume something you make... And it was all on me!
Dave In the drag racing world they say "if you don't red light once in a while you're not trying hard enough".
Only street raced in my phoolish youth. Ah I was just 19... I was bitten by the dirt bug at an early age, and was wrenching on dirt cars by 15. Raced my 1st limited car at 17. And started building the 1st modified the same year I tried street racing. It's that 37 coach bodied car I've posted pictures of elsewhere. Then in my mid 30s got involved in SCCA racing as a corner worker. Which of course led to helping people with IT class cars for the Longest Day 24 hour race at Nelson's Ledges. I was the cheap mechanic and crew cheap. Yeah, the pay was a couple of t shirts each year... Spectated at a few NHRA events, just never got hooked, thank god. Oh well what can I say, set in my way now.
I made a couple feeble attempts at drag racing but I should have just stayed a crew guy, it sure would have been cheaper and been more fun.
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