Danny Thompson’s LSR diary: Balancing the power
How much power does it take to beat the world Land Speed Record? When my dad ran the Challenger II in 1968, he had roughly 1800 horsepower at his disposal. The car had a supercharged 427 Ford SOHC in the rear, and a second fuel-injected SOHC in the front. The power output of the engines was not balanced, so he stabilized it manually by rolling his toe back and forth over a split gas pedal.
He was forced to  … More