Word: exhaustive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cars are the same (Offenhausers made by the Meyer & Drake Engineering Corp.) that are used in most other racing cars. But Master Mechanic Moore does not use them the way they come from the factory. He pulls down each engine to the last nut & bolt, polishes intake and exhaust valves, magnafluxes each part to see if any hidden defects exist. He buys the chassis, too, adding his own refinements in design...
...tests. With normal vibration a lot of them would have gone out of whack. The engines are rugged too. Rolls-Royce engineers tossed two buckets of ice cubes into the nose of one, and the only result was a loud clatter and a puff of steam out the exhaust...
...those weeks when the U.S. citizen re-experienced the urge that had assailed him annually since the day of the Apperson Eight and the Pope-Toledo. He wanted to go somewhere in an automobile. He wanted to breathe exhaust fumes and fresh spring air just for the tonic effect. He wanted to speed or crawl as the spirit moved him; to read new Burma-Shave signs, flip cigarettes at rural mail boxes, or park and fall into a stupor with the sun on his neck...
...other big manufacturer of piston engines, Curtiss-Wright Corp., is making a hybrid (for the Navy) on a different plan. Its Turbo-Cyclone 18 is a regular, 18-cylinder piston engine whose exhaust drives three turbines geared directly to the crankshaft. The energy recovered gives the engine more horsepower with over 15% more fuel economy...
...discharge opening can be varied in size to get the best division of exhaust energy between supercharging and jet thrust. The result is an engine with 4,000 (instead of 3,500) h.p., without proportionate increase in weight. The Air Force intends to use the hybrid in its newest heavy bomber...