Hot Rods What With this Induction System

What's with the induction system on this dragster? It looks like some kind of forced air induction system from the tanks Infront of the engine.

 

Possibly compressed air in tanks instead of supercharger? Hard to tell exactly in picture.

 

I blew it up but not much help…

 

is it in this video? No, I didn't watch it, I just remember that Brian did the video a while ago.

 

Been tried off and on since 1907.

I remember back when Mickey Thompson was trying anything and everything, he got the idea, instead of nitromethane, he'd feed an engine pressurized oxygen. It exploded with such force, it blew parts through the concrete block walls of the dyno room.

jack vines

 

Not sure if you are aware or not, but I think that is a pic of the M/T car.
Here are a couple of articles about the concept.

https://www.hotrod.com/features/mic...r-boost-system-hot-rod-magazine-december-1971

https://casupercharging.com/is-compressed-air-supercharging-the-next-big-power-adder/

 

The engines in this video are driven purely by the compressed air. It is a very cool concept.

The car in the first post has an internal combustion engine that is force fed the compressed air from the tanks.
CAS.... or "compressed air supercharging".

 

Interesting too that some current race cars are running their superchargers off of compressed air for immediate boost.

 

That Tina chick from street outlaws fame is currently running a compressed air drag car, not sure how it's doing but it was fast

 

If any of you are interested........
https://www.enginelabs.com/news/compressed-air-supercharging-instant-horsepower-explained/