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* One dragster's 500-inch Hemi makes more horsepower then the first 8
rows at Daytona
* 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.
* The supercharger takes more power to drive then a stock hemi makes.
* 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.
* Dual magnetos apply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of
an arc welder in each cylinder.
* At stoichiometric (exact) 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture (for nitro), the
flame front of nitromethane measures 7050 degrees F.
* 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.
* Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After
1/2 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 off it's 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 blow the block in half.
* Dragsters twist the crank (torsionally) so far (20 degrees in the
big end of the track) that sometimes cam lobes are ground offset from
front to rear to re-phase the valve timing somewhere closer to
synchronization with the pistons.
* To exceed 300mph 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.
* 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.
* Dragsters reach over 300 miles per hour before you have read this
sentence.
* Top Fuel Engines ONLY turn 540 revolutions from light to light!
* The redline is actually quite high at 9500rpm
* To give you an idea of this acceleration, the current TF dragster
elapsed time record is 4.477 seconds for the quarter mile. This
means that you could be coming across the starting line in your
average Lingenfelter powered "twin-turbo" Corvette at 200 mph (on a
FLYING START) and the dragster would BEAT you to the finish line FROM
A DEAD STOP in a quarter mile distance!

DAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMNNNNN

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That description was so graphic, I can smell the nitro-methane!!!

now that`s cool info.i wonder if they will ever build a dyno that can handle top fuel motor .

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don`t have the luv no more but I still like em.72 el camino,
00 & 06 silverado one 4x4, turboed vw sandrail,99 banshee, 06 raptor 700, 02 polaris trailblazer.

they can rev much higher than 9500. I saw one do a burnout and blew both tires all to hell. The driver forgot to set the rev limiter and the tires disentigrated at over 400 MPH which is over 10000 RPM. Ain't that sum shit!

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I love the smell of nitro in the mornin. Smells like victory.

This is the Hennessee Viper. Or Venom as it is called after the twin turbo 833 horse mods are done.


Last years model runs the 1/4 faster on street tires than the lingenfelter vette on slicks. So naturally the vette had to be quicker. They re-designed the lingenfelter to beat the Venom. Now the vette has a 0-60 time of 2.4 seconds. wow.

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If it aint broke, don't fix it.
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get this my kid just pointed it out to me on animal planet. the tiger beattle is so fast as it runs it actually goes blind its vision can`t keep up with the speed so it runs stops and looks then runs again.they said if this beattle was the size of a human you would need a top fuel dragster to keep up. so considdering the scale size of a dragster, i guess it`s not that fast after all since a bug could beat it. weird, later

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don`t have the luv no more but I still like em.72 el camino,
00 & 06 silverado one 4x4, turboed vw sandrail,99 banshee, 06 raptor 700, 02 polaris trailblazer.