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http://www.hotrod.co...fore_were_cool/

 

 

 

News flash! As hot as turbos are today, they’re far from new. Guys have been screwing around with turbos at the drags since the early '60s with varying levels of success—though the most common level was zero. For that reason, many of the early experiments have been lost to history. Here, in no particular order, we present 10 of the coolest examples of successful turbo drag cars you probably never knew existed.

 

 

 

Jerry and Gary Mallicoat’s '40 Willys

 

 

 

 

Twin turbos drawing through twin Carter carbs and feeding a 327ci small-block Chevy made 720 hp and allowed the twin brothers to win the AA/GS class at the ’65 Winternationals and go on a national tour. At the end of 1965, the guys pulled the motor and turbos out of the car and gave them back to Ed Iskenderian. They went back to college, Jerry started writing for Car Craft, and they came back with a Barracuda flip-top Gasser that ran twin turbos, running tenths quicker than others of the era. It appeared on the Oct. ’71 cover of HOT ROD. In recent years, the Mallicoat brothers have run a Barracuda in AA/Gas Supercharged nostalgia-drags competition, and recently converted the car’s Hemi to twin turbos for Pro Street racing.

 

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Not "Absolutely" positive... but pretty sure I recall these guys running this, especially the Cuda. (was @ the 72' Spring Nationals in Ohio/may still have some old pics) Edited by kidjc
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Thought you would chime in. I love that car.

 

some of us are spoiled thinking all you had to was ask for help ,:)

back in those days forget it was every man for himself

 

another thing hilborm mechanical fuel injection was just about the only option for non carb'd set ups

this would have super easy if they had done one simple thing ,added a pressure gauge and a fine tuneable adjusting

regulator valve to the pressure regulate

system , the old pill system made it one of the hardest systems you could find to adjust fuel mixtures at the track

 

those simple changes would have made a huge change to drag raceing history

 

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