You need a 3800-hp V-8 to break 500 mph.
A 500-mph car doesn’t run on willpower or good intentions. Nothing about it is standardized. It’s all hand-built, every element demon-tweaked and optimized. Compromise isn’t an option. Any screwup will be catastrophic. Faith motivates, but science guides decisions. And the scientist building the massively turbocharged 560-cid V-8 engine is 83-year-old Kenny Duttweiler.
Packing the twin-turbo big-block V-8 within the slim tube frame of the Speed Demon might have been as big a challenge as generating its 3800 hp.That’s 706.3 feet per second, or just shy of two football fields including the end zones. In a second. At 500 mph, replace the “just shy of” part with “more than.”
Saticoy, however, is in Ventura County, north of where the hot-rodding industry had become embedded. “I wasn’t around any of those hot-rodder guys to enable me to get smarter quicker. So I kind of had to do my own,” Duttweiler says.“When you dyno an engine, you always hope you can prove or disprove some theory. You don’t mind testing an idea that proves out wrong, because that idea could lead you to all sorts of other things. Otherwise, you’d never get there from here.
Patience, directed curiosity, and revelations found even in failed experiments ensure his hands assemble greatness.Packaging a big, intricately plumbed, turbocharged V-8 engine into a thin streamliner is the sort of technical challenge that excites Duttweiler decades past retirement age.
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