Re: Who knows about the Mk II motor? (re: Bill Thomas)
It's entirely possible that Bill Thomas played with one of those motors, but not during the development stages. Smokey did some testing with intake manifold runner design for them, and of course, he created the extra main bearing caps (fit over the stock 2 bolt caps).
I had the pleasure of talking with Dick Keinath a few times before he died and learned a lot, mostly about the secrecy of the whole project. According to Dick, the GM top brass didn't find out about the MK-II until a reporter asked them about it at Daytona in Feb. They said, "what new motor?" That was when the poop hit the propeller. Anyone found working on race parts after that was immediately shown the door.
Dick told me he wanted to measure "mass" flow through the ports but the equipment to do that hadn't been invented yet. He was ahead of the curve as an engineer. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/flag.gif[/img]
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