Lots of modified drag bikes use slide throttle
setups.
Dick J
--- ARDUNDOUG@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 01/17/2001 4:49:17 PM
> Pacific Standard Time,
> FastmetalBDF@aol.com writes:
>
> << Keith, Slide throttles have been
> around for a while ...... C & T
> Automotive had them on one of their hemi
> engines ..... I think it might
> have set a record at Bonneville in a hiboy
> deuce roadster, back in the
> 50s, and Jack Roush had slide throttles on one
> his drag cars ..... I believe
> it was a Vega running in C / Gas class back in
> the 70s .
> It looks to me like slide throttles
> would admit air into the intake
> ports in a more even, steady fashion than the
> round butterflies inside
> Stu' s tubes ( Hilborns ), and all the other
> port injectors .
> Bruce
> >>
> Bruce,
> The C&T Ardun powered 32 hiboy had homemade
> slide injectors according to
> Clem TeBow, the reason being that Hilborn
> hadn't come out with injectors for
> these heads. C&T also built a set for the
> Moller-Adams/Flatty Streamliner
> engine.
> Ardun
> Doug King
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