A couple of years ago Boris Murray stopped by the house. Here's what he had to say.
The Norton engines were built by Cristman (sp?). The guy who dominated drag racing for a couple of years with a twin engine Norton was the one who developed the slider clutch. the engines were fuel injected.
Norton sponsored the project BIG TIME. Boris had ridden the liner when Triumphs were in it the year before. Denis took on the ride when the Nortons went in, but he couldn't get the hang of it, and it went on it's side a couple of times. Boris was called in to take over the riding chores. As I understand it, none of them knew much about fuel injection.
The Nortons were running super, super, rich on a big load of nitro. They installed a petcock valve in the riders compartment so the rider could manually lean it out.
Boris said as soon as he touched the thing it holed the pistons. They took the engines to SLC and fixed the piston situation. Boris suggested to Denis that he fly home and bring back the Amal fuel carbureators he had on his Triumphs. He told Denis he was sure he could make it go, as he knew how to tune the Amals. This never came to pass. They were on the salt 6 or 7 weeks on private time, with Norton footing the bill.
Boris said the bike handled quite well. He was able to shift his knees from side to side and keep it in a straight line without moving the handlebars.
I heard that the nose Al Teague used came off of the Brute.
Max