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> So you want more horsepower? This puts things into perspective...
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> Top Fuel Dragster Trivia
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> One TF dragster's 500-inch Hemi makes more horsepower than the first 8 rows at the Daytona 500.
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> Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 1 1/2 gallons of nitro per second, the same rate of fuel consumption as a fully loaded 747 but with 4 times the energy volume.
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> A stock hemi will not produce enough power to drive the dragster's supercharger.
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> Even with nearly 3000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into nearly-solid form before ignition. Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock.
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> Dual magnetos apply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of an arc welder in each cylinder.
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> At stoichiometric (exact) 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture (for nitro), the flame front of nitromethane measures 7050 degrees F.
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> Nitromethane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric water vapor by the searing exhaust gases.
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> Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After half way, the engine is dieseling from compression - plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1400 degrees F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting the fuel flow. If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up in those cylinders and then explodes with a force that can blow cylinder heads
off the block in pieces or split the block in half.
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> To exceed 300 mph in 4.5 seconds dragsters must accelerate at an average of over 4G's. But in reaching 200 mph well before 1/2 track, launch acceleration is closer to 8G's.
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> If all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, and for once NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs $1000.00 per second.
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> Dragsters reach over 300 miles per hour before you have completed reading this sentence.
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> Top Fuel Engines turn ONLY 540 revolutions from light to light!
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> The redline is actually quite high at 9500rpm
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> The current TF dragster elapsed time record is 4.477 seconds for the quarter mile (06/02/01 Kenny Bernstein)
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> Putting all of this in perspective:
> You are driving an average Lingenfelter powered "twin-turbo" Corvette.

Over a mile up the road, a Top Fuel dragster is staged and ready to launch down a quarter mile strip as you pass. You have the advantage of a flying start, but you still run the 'Vette hard up through the gears and blast cross the starting line and past the dragster at an honest 200 mph.

At this moment, the dragster launches and starts after you. You keep your foot hard down, but you hear an incredibly brutal whine that sears your eardrums and within seconds the dragster catches and passes you. He beats you to the
finish line, a quarter mile away from where you passed him.
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> That's acceleration.
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> Think about it, from a standing start, this phenomenal machine has spotted you 200mph and not only caught, but nearly blasted you off the road when he
passed you within a mere 1320 feet. >
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Wow.

 

I second that....WOW!

 

This is wow

At stoichiometric (exact) 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture (for nitro), the flame front of nitromethane measures 7050 degrees F.

1.7:1? Do they have injectors? Or do they just pour gas in.

 

mechanical fuel injection

 

Awesome post....makes ya think
last part thouu.. about the Lingenfelter TT Corvette dosnt add up At a constant 200 mph, the Vette will take almost exactly 4.50 seconds to traverse the quarter mile. The fastest fuel dragster in the history of mankind can traverse the quarter mile in 4.441 seconds. That means if everything is absolutely perfect on the dragster's run, one dragster throughout human history will stick its nose over the finish line .059 seconds ahead of the Vette. But even this dragster won't come close to passing the Vette after 3 seconds......


In order to exceed 300 mph in 4.5 seconds dragsters must accelerate at an average of over 4G's. In order to reach 200 mph well before half-track, the launch acceleration approaches 8G's.
a car were to accelerate at a constant 1g for 1/4 mile, it would take something like 9 sec., and it would be traveling ~150 MPH at the end. For a while many years ago it was thought those numbers would never be bettered, because to accelerate at 1g the coef. of friction between the tires and the strip would have to be 1.0, and the common physics books said that was the "upper theoretical limit". hot-rodders didn't always know the physical laws...




Assuming all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, and for once NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs an estimated US $1,000.00 per second.
I think the current Top Fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.441 seconds for the quarter mile (10/05/03, Tony Schumacher). The top speed record is 333.00 mph as measured over the last 66' of the run.......... (09/28/03 Doug Kalitta).

Were going to what them run this weekend Top Fuel at San Antonio Raceway....

 

Where is my money bitch?

--Steele

 

That was a sweet a$$ post, here's a little something for ya...off topic but interesting

2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.

3. The dot over the letter "i" is called a title.

4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

5. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.

6. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

7. A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2" by 3-1/2".

8. During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance (and Heston's wearing a watch).

9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily! (That Explains a few mysteries....)

10. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

12. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

13. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple or silver.

14. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a birth certificate recorded for Wendy before.

15. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

16. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

17. Bruce Lee was so fast they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. That's opposite of the norm.

18. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA."

19. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

20. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your Thumb.

21. The first product a new company developed was a record player for Automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so the new company called themselves Motorola.

22. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.

23. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

24. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

25. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin Look-Alike Contest.

26. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

27. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson." That only showed up in Basil Rathbone movie versions.

28. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!

29. The glue on Israeli postage is certified Kosher.

30. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

31. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go intospace because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

32. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!

 

Guess I'll never be an astronaut.

 

"6. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why."

According to Mythbusters, it does, the echo just sounds the same as the quack :P

 

Ya beat me to it. Yep, I can verify that according to the Mythbusters, the echo just sounds the same as the quack.