[mviker]

Wow... What HASN'T Mickey Thompson done? a two cylinder, 257HP Pontiac motor?

http://www.streetlegaltv.com/news/mi...linder-engine/

[Bob Dillon]

I'm giving away my advanced age here, but I remember when this engine was on the cover of Hot Rod Magazine.

Now if I could just find my damned car keys.

[Alvin]

Originally Posted by mviker

Wow... What HASN'T Mickey Thompson done? a two cylinder, 257HP Pontiac motor?

http://www.streetlegaltv.com/news/mi...linder-engine/

Yep - pretty Here=> http://www.tachrev.com/NHRA_Museumpg4.htm




4cyl vvvv

[marxjunk]

things where simple back then..and cheap compared to today..and he had money...its a good combination when ya wanna play with fast stuff...surprised he never got into planes

[muscle_collector]

I have one of his 4 cylinder sd engines. it runs sd rods, sd head and hilborn fuel injection set up. with an aluminum timing cover that has Thompson cast into it. block is a DS-???? something with some other stampings on it.

[mviker]

I am just amazed at the tricks Mickey pulled from his hat back in the day. I knew he was an innovator, but seeing this stuff really does impress. I guess having a well equipped shop and the resources to run with helps quite a bit also. Still... Heck of a guy.

[tom s]

Mickey was the thinker.The guy that made it all work was Fritz Voight.Tom

[Drag Star Le Mans]

Originally Posted by muscle_collector

I have one of his 4 cylinder sd engines. it runs sd rods, sd head and hilborn fuel injection set up. with an aluminum timing cover that has Thompson cast into it. block is a DS-???? something with some other stampings on it.

Is there any chance you could show it off?

[muscle_collector]

its buried. I bought it around 1981 with a ton of mickeys sd stuff. I have a picture of it but they are in the boxes when I moved. next time I am over where its at I will see if I can get a picture worth taking.

[400 4spd.]

With the innovation that the two had, I wonder what would have been created had Mickey Thompson and George Hurst joined forces back in the day!

[Jack Gifford]

That brief article in 'streetlegaltv' is a little bit incorrect- saying the two-cylinder would spin to 8,500. The 257 HP dyno run was aborted at 5,000 due to horrendous shaking. They also don't mention that it was on 25% nitromethane. Nor do they mention that it did get the records that Mickey was going for.

For years I thought that calling the blower a 2-71 was Mickey's tongue-in-cheek name for a 3-71 that he had cut down. It wasn't until recently I learned that there really was a 2-71 Detroit diesel!

[Alvin]

[Alvin]

I noticed the on-trailer front wheel attachment shown below and dug a little and found the image and article mention bottom below.



"The complexity of packaging four Pontiac engines with their 1937 Cadillac transmissions may have been the easiest part of the build. More concerning was how the tires would withstand repeated 400-mph attempts, how to keep the parachutes from violently whipping the car around once deployed, and how to envelope it aerodynamically. The first part was handled by Goodyear Tires; the ’chutes were taken care of by experimenting with first shortening, then lengthening the lanyard; and the aero was accomplished by the talented fabricators Thompson surrounded himself with. George Hill designed the body, Don Borth fabricated it, and Fritz Voight was the mechanic...

Read more: http://www.hotrod.com/features/histo...-challenger-i/

[Jack Gifford]

The Challenger body sure was sleek in '59, before it had blowers sticking up through it.

[Half-Inch Stud]

So I ought stop waiting for the Quad V8 Street car... Pontiac is defunct & M/T is gone.

[Alvin]

Originally Posted by Half-Inch Stud

So I ought stop waiting for the Quad V8 Street car... Pontiac is defunct & M/T is gone.

Autocorrect spelling, or "Double OT" ?

[rexs73gto]

Micky was killed outside his home ,, by ,,, someone he knew . I really think they knew who did it but were told not to investigate it to find the real killer. I think it had something to do with the gov. projects he was working on & something possibly went wrong or in a direction that someone didn't want it to go. There has been many ideas who shot & killed Micky & his wife.

[Stuart]

They convicted Mickey's business associate Michael Goodwin in 2007 for the murders. He's serving two consecutive life sentences without parole.