The water keeps the temperatures down a little bit, as if it had higher-octane gas. Now tell me in confidence, what are you doing?' He said, 'Water injection.' By golly, he had rigged up a water tank, and when the blower put more air pressure on top of the water in that tank, it squirted some in according to how much blower pressure he had. Your spark plugs and everything just look great. When I found out that he had fast times, I called him away from the crowd and told him, 'Everyone else is having trouble, but your engine is so good. I remember that when I arrived at Bonneville, Ted had already been there a few days. On the dyno, it wasn't very powerful until we put the blower on it. You get a bigger compression chamber with a bigger combustible charge that way and he wanted to fill it with supercharged air. Ted ordered the pistons down the hole a ways for a short stroke. It had low compression and a supercharger. "It used to go real good at Bonneville and set some records.
"It's a small Hemi with the big Hemi heads," Iskenderian told us. The Hemi is a 1956 354, destroked to 300 cubic inches. By Mark Vaughn Published: Ryan McVay // Getty Images Thousands of years ago, a giant body of salty water called Lake Bonneville covered much of the state of Utah, the remnants of.
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