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Ronnie White Fresno Pan Draggers.

 

This one actually does need explaining.

 

let’s see, hook this strap to the axle and then to the trailer, another strap over the front and one more through the middle of the frame.

 

That was tried by Mickey Thompson, a**** others, instead of a GMC blower compressed air was metered into the engine. Some benefits were the air characteristics stayed constant to ease tuning and the intake charge was cool to enhance the power the engine put out. I think a drawback was multiple air cylinders were necessary to feed the engine for a 1/4 mile run and that added a lot of weight to the car. The old racers adage was a 100# weight reduction cut your ET by a tenth of a second.

 

A couple of teams tried oxygen, it worked up to a point, then the engines melted down.

 

There are modern racers doing this with good success