2 Stroke Dragsters

[BRW14us]

I have a Question Why dont they make a 2 stroke Draggster for racing Purposes Can you even hve more than one clylinder in a stroke engine?

[KC Ron Carter]

Many years ago in the European Swedish automotive factories they built such a monster.

Saab in Swedan made 2 cycle cars, the most popular is the model 96.

They also made a Sonnett all fibrglass body.

They built a 3 cylinder two cylcle with oil injection called the Monte Carlo. The engine was mounted with the clutch foward. During it's run they talked about overhead fan shafts, when the four cycle cars were coming out with overhead cam shafts.

It had four speeds forward with a shifter on the steering column.

It had a freewheeling transmission since using the engine on a 2 cycle as a brake is not a good deal.

On the snow it was a smile maker.
0 to 60 mph with the 850cc 2 cycle motor it was a 4 wheel motorcycle.
As fast as anything I have ever driven, past 60 you could use a calender to clock it.



This is not the OE engine but the body is all Saab.



Here is a 1956 Sonnett.




http://carcatalog2.free.fr/hist2.htm

Later,

[2strokebloke]

Don't forget, that there were also DKW based sportscars, like the "Monza."
SAAB copied from DKW alot in their early days, which is why both makes produced cars with 2-stroke 3 cylinder engines.