Indholdsfortegnelse for July 1966 i Hot Rod

He's Ralph Bryans, international Grand Prix lightweight champion, one of a team of globetrotting “researchers” from Honda's $10 million Research and Development Center. He gathers his research on engine and machine performance on the race courses of the world … the analysis of his findings helps Honda make an even better motorcycle for you. This research work, and the constant refining and perfecting of Honda machines, has brought Honda to undisputed dominance in sales throughout the world. But now that it is the world's biggest seller, why does Honda continue to send top riders like Bryans, Mike Hailwood, Jim Redman and others out to the GP Circuits? Simple. To test even newer, more exciting ideas in engineering and design. In one afternoon of 100-mph-plus competition against the world's best, they…

Sunburst Nassau, the festive, touristsaturated capital of the Bahamas Archipelago, is also the annual locale of an international sports car race. A few seasons ago it was the unlikely site of a bizarre confrontation, for A. J. Foyt, the high priest of the oval tracts, had just won the 200-mile feature event, and was being candidly dissected by British driver Stirling Moss. Moss was openly disparaging Foyt's Yankee-style oval track sport by contrasting it to the rigors of European-derived road racing. The climactic stage came when Moss cajolingly queried Foyt if all the gear changing, double-clutching, braking and right-and left-hand turns of sports car competition weren't impossibly complex compared to the patented oval track mold of just spinning circles. Proud Texan Foyt was prepared. “Nah,” he boomed. “It's the opposite.…

No matter what you have read or heard about L.A. smog, it's worse. That statement won't earn us any bouquets from the Chamber of Commerce, but after driving a minimum of a thousand miles a month around Los Angeles chasing car features for the last 16 years, I can speak with some authority. When the temperature starts up and the smog sets in, it's murder! When things got grim last fall, I decided that an air conditioner was the only way to fly. Air conditioning only partially filters the air, but it reduces the temperature, taking the moisture out, and in so doing reduces the irritation. The other more obvious advantages are that you arrive cool and ready to work, and you can drive with less distraction, permitting more attention…

You may not be able to feature an engine capable of simultaneously pattin' its head and rubbin' its oil pan, but when you finish this story, you will probably admit that AiResearch's new turbo-charger comes awfully close to filling the gap between an engine and some of our well-coordinated readers. (Personally, I still have difficulty accomplishing the stomach-rubbin', head-pattin' feat.) Basis for this curious approach stems from the fact that the automobile engine is, in a sense, an air pump. In the case of the turbo, an engine uses its exhausted air to run a turbine to pack more air into the engine — all simultaneously. It follows then that the more air you can run through an engine, the higher gross output will be; all other factors remaining equal.…

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CREDIT'S DUE Dear Sir: For several years, I have built and entered late model Modified or Sportsman cars at the annual event for such vehicles during Speedweeks at Daytona Beach, Florida. I built, from the ground up, a 1963 Ford late model Sportsman which raced in this year's Permatex 300 and won the event, with Curtis Turner as the driver. Hot Rod's May 1966 issue indicated the car was an ex-factory racer and stated specifically that the engine was a “Holman and Moody 427.” This car was not an “ex-factory job,” and the engine was built by me, and me alone. For years I have been extending efforts to prove my ability to build quality race cars and engines. Even though my car won this year's event, neither I nor…

San Diego, California The CAE Racing Products Super Modified, designed and built by Jim Culbert, set a new track record on the first time out at Wembley Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa. The CAE Special, driven by Carl Adams, has shattered track and race records throughout its current tour. In addition to winning a majority of all races entered (with record times), car is present holder of the Match Race Championship, which is defended monthly via a Challenger vs. Champion meet. The attendance and enthusiasm of spectators in South Africa and Australia is outstanding. At the first appearance of the CAE car in Johannesburg, over 5,000 fans were turned away at the gate, and in Sidney, Australia, the spectators numbered 40,000. This is the rule rather than the exception.…

Normally, one of the first steps taken W by the student of physics is to..1 learn the laws set forth by a gentleman named Sir Isaac Newton. (Don't panic, just keep readin'.) Newton stated (among other contributions) that for every force or action upon some body, there is an opposite and equal force or reaction. Push against a wall, and the wall pushes back. Push against a car, and it pushes back; up to the point at which you overcome the reaction and begin moving the car. Push against someone larger than you and a variety of possible events can occur; some good, some bordering on being disasterous and neither bearing any relationship to Newton. At about the same time our physics student is committing Newton's ideas to memory, he…

Traditionally, tree stump pulling is a job for torque-makin' tractor-type equipment, but if you'll stretch your imagination a little, you can see how this concept can be applied to boat engines (SK pleasure boats in particular) ; relatively low rpm requirements, the need for an ample supply of torque, and a reasonably flat torque curve spread over a span of about 2500 rpm. For a 425-incher that tips the scales at near 600 pounds (off the dyno and on the weight-checker), this largest of Olds engines may be just the stack of engineered cast iron and carburetion you've been looking for where both boat and hot car applications are concerned. Admittedly, it will not equal the rpm of its little Chevy cousin, nor will it “horsepower” all the water out…

In case you haven't guessed, the cost of running a car competitively at the drags is just like the cost of living—it's always going up. In fact, since about 1963, the number of actual competitors at the drags has diminished, although various sanctioning bodies don't care to admit it. At the same time, attendance is up over all previous years, a fact that may forecast the possibility that quarter-miling is fast becoming a spectator rather than a participant sport. It doesn't have to be that way, though, and as the response to our last Hudson piece proved, there's a large body of potential racers out there just waiting to be led through the pit gate — if the price is right. So we offer herewith another case history of how…

“WHIRLWIND!” What else would you call a boat that gulps air like a berserk tornado and howls like a banshee? Having piloted one on a test run, I can say she moves like a hurricane in a hurry. Designed and driven by Phil Caricof of Yacht Dynamics, she will be sponsored by Harvey Aluminum in the upcoming open ocean race from Long Beach to San Francisco this October. How does flat out at 43,000 rpm grab you? The marine-modified model 331 turbo-prop aircraft gas turbine engine, built by AiResearch, develops a continuous 500 horsepower shaft output at this speed. A portion of the original propeller gear reduction system has been retained to reduce the shaft speed to an output of 8000 rpm. This is fed to a Schiefer double disc…

In the last episode, we saw Allison 1 Mackenzie … whoops, wrong melo-drama. Let's see now, when we last left NASCAR-land, Bill France was weighing the alternatives of legalizing Ford's SOHC engine for Grand National competition. Would Chrysler, as they threatened, withdraw from active competition on the high banks, as they did in 1965, if Ford got their way? And in what context would Ford themselves accept the opportunity to run the new engine? Would a rule change be taken as a personal affront? All these reflections, this auto-drama, if you will, was transpiring just previous to the Atlanta 500 (June '66 HRM) and in the interval before the Rebel 400 in Darlington, South Carolina. As everyone knows by now, the “hemi-cammer” was approved for competition but with the proviso…

It's a game, all this “youth market” high-performance stuff. First, it was the GTO (we mean currently, since the '32 Ford flathead V8 was the first hot compact), and it was followed by a bunch of others, then Chrysler came out with the “street hemi,” partly for NASCAR rule compliance and partly because the pack had passed them, and they became king of the hill. But it couldn't last because this is a serious game. For months it was just a rumor around Detroit. Then carrot-topped Charlie Gray, the taskmaster of Ford Performance Division, whose firm handshake lets you know he's 110 percent committed to total performance, calls up and says they're about to spring a 427 Fairlane “street package” on the world and would we like a crack at…

“It can't last.” That's what they all said about the funny cars when they first began to make their presence felt on the Nation's drag strips. But they have lasted and the field today is wider than ever because any strip operator knows it's a surefire money maker to book some run-what-you-brungers for the weekly blast session. And new cars, now there's a subject that's growing bigger by the month. Evidence Charlie Allen. He realized right off the bat that it would be next to impossible to finance anything superpotent out of his own pocket since he's not shot in the wallet with diamonds, so he convinced the people at Atlantic Dodge, Inc., (so named because it's on Atlantic Blvd in L.A., not on the East Coast) that the advertising…

If you love cars, as I do, they must look first-rate to really please you. With this Mercedes 230SL or the car you drive, that means a regular car-care program including a thorough washing at least once a week. “Washing alone isn't enough, though. Any finish even the new miracle car-finishes—will oxidize in time You need to use a really good car-finish cleaner at least twice a year. And after cleaning you must wax. “That's one of the reasons I use J/Wax paste cleaner-wax. It does both jobs. And I know it gives me great protection, has the kind of quality I expect in all J/Wax products. It contains the toughest wax in the world.” S. Moss A car that's been protected with J/Wax products is more valuable at trade-in…

Well gang, I blew it — at least part of it. In my story concerning the 273 MoPar modification (Power mods for MoPar's 273, Feb. '66) there were a few errors or omissions which ought to be set straight. In addition, a few more tidbits have issued forth from Box 1919 in Detroit since we did the story on some important things like clutches and another little device that might save your engine life. First off, somehow Chrysler Engineer Mike Buckel's name got misspelled. Sorry Mike. Continuing, on page 110, it suggests that a number 93 power valve restrictor be used in the Carter AFB. This should be.093-inch (power valve restrictor). Flipping over to page 111, valve lash settings ought to be adjusted cold at a maximum of.017-and.030-inch, intake and…