There was a magazine article about Barney Navarro's Rambler Indy car back in the 60s. Apparently he was inspired by 2 facts: #1 the Rambler six had the strongest most over engineered and over built bottom end of any engine he had ever seen #2 Indy rules allowed a bigger displacement if you used a stock block engine. I guess the 199 was the largest displacement allowed, the pure racing engines were what, 2 litres or 1.5 litres???
Navarro figured he could get the horsepower he needed by using high turbo boost and alcohol fuel, on a basically stock bottom end. I believe he was getting around 600HP. His car was very fast but I don't think he ever quite qualified.
