I found some info. regarding top fuel drag racing, that is some crazy shit! I've got some serious respect for the technology involved in the cars and the people who run them.
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Some interesting Top Fuel dragster facts:
* 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 of 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.
* 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.
Also if you watch a night run you see those sparks flying out of the exhaust, those are pices of the spark plug and valves.
Also top fuel dragsters make about 5,000 HP, the wing on the back is so large that they loose the equivalent of 2000 HP just from the drag it creates. They need it though otherwise they would take off...litteraly.
I did a speech on these in highschool and I didn't learn everything that was on that list above, I did however go to a race to see them first hand.
If you ever get the chance to go see them first hand do it. It will blow you away. Take ear plugs too.
When a grisly killing spree in Vancouver left 15 women dead, PETA tried to purchase full-page ads in local papers suggesting that this carnage was no worse than the killing of animals for food.
If you have never been to a top fuel event and have the chance you should definatley go. Its stupid how fast these guys go. But the first time I went, I was surprised not so much by the speed, but the sound. You can FEEL it in your gut when these things take off.
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* 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.
for alittle more info thats also more Gs than aF15 taking off from a catiplute on an aircraft carrier
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Saw them run about 10 years ago. The owner of the company I worked for took us all (about 15 of us) to the races one night. He was sitting next to me with a fresh beer filled almost to the top. BIG mistake. When the first one took off it shook the ground, bleachers, my vision (everything was blurry, I assumed it was the vibration), you could feel the air vibrating in and out of you nose and open mouth and, most importantly, the owners full cup of beer. That damned thing fizzed up over the sides of the cup and spilled all over the bleachers. After the cars left and the foam went down he discovered he had lost almost half his beer on the ground!
Originally posted by LittlebittaContact Awsome, but they couldnt do it for 500 Miles
I Love it when people compair Drag to Circle Track. Apples and oranges
The sentance about the first 8 rows of daytona is just stating a fact. Kind of like the setance about the amount of Gs being more than an F15 being launched of the carrier. Its just a referance.
But you were the first to compare the two. Ill be the second: They cant do 300+ mph in the 1/4.
But like you said. Apples and Oranges.
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