Drag engine facts
 

Hey guy's found this on Honda-Tech and thought it was pretty interesting and some of it amazing. Thought I'd share with the HMT crew.

*One Top Fuel dragster 500 cubic inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than the first 4 rows of the Daytona 500 *Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 11.2 gallons of nitromethane per second; a fully loaded 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate with 25% less energy being produced. *A stock Dodge Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to drive the dragster supercharger. *With 3000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on the overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into a near-solid form before ignition. Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock at full throttle. *At the stoichiometric 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture for the nitromethane the flame front temperature 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 gasses. *Dual magnetos supply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of an arc welder in each cylinder. *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 the fuel flow. *If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up in the affected cylinders and then explodes with sufficient force to blow cylinder heads off the block in pieces or split the block in half. *In order to exceed 300 mph in 4.5 sec, dragsters must accelerate an average of over 4G's. In order to reach 200 mph well before half-track, the launch acceleration approaches 8G's. *Dragsters reach over 300 mph before you have completed reading this sentence. *Top Fuel Engines turn appr. 540 revolutions from light to light, and including the burn out, must only survive 900 revolutions under load.

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interesting.

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i concur...

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lol, wtf. you always post that when i post.

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Post-whoring at its best ;D

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I also too concur as well indeed. ;D

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im glad you guys all concur with me. :-*

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lol.. enough with the post-whoring! ;D

I read something that said something along these lines:
"Imagine you're driving a Z06 corvette, just cruising. Miles ahead, there is a dragster car waiting for you, on a 1/4 track. You mash on the gas as hard as possible, getting closer to the dragster at a blistering speed. Remember, he will take off the line (0 MPH) the very second you cross it. You mash the heck out of the gas, getting up to 200 MPH when you hit the line. You're cruising, smiling, thinking you just beat the dragster. About 3/4 the way down, you hear the rumble of a engine roaring like all hell broke loose. Woosh! He flies by you, crossing the finish line seconds before you even get there. That's what I call acceleration!"

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indeed.

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i have some nitromethane.. its some pretty sexy ----. it wont burn for ---- tho you have to have somthing like alchahol in it to dilute the gas so it can get hot enough to burn and it only takes nitromethane 1/4th of the air that gas does to ignite

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repost ;)

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Don't worry, all that's going on is post-whoring anyways :-*

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MY moped enigne is a drag engine, runs on Nitro. :P

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My neighbor put 110 octane in his moped once.. the moped didn't like it much ;D

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neibor is an idiot.

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Yeah, it really is ;D



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;)

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;D ;D ;D ;D





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:) :) :) :)

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:) ;) :D ;D >:( :( :o 8) ??? ::) :P :-[ :-X :-\ :-* :'(





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Whats this plus one ----?
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:) ;) :D ;D >:( :( :o 8) ??? ::) :P :-[ :-X :-\ :-* :'(

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IBTL BITCHES










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::)

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I also concur. Do you concur?

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Wait!!! I dont concur! I wasnt aware that a dragster carried a 44 gallon tank on it. How can it burn 11 gallons a second and run a pass of 4 seconds when it doesnt have 44 gallons of fuel?

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I've seen this on a few other forums, and they all agree that most of it is BS.

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they've pretty much reached a human limit in drag racing, I'm waiting for the robotic controls to catch on.

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Not really. There's alot more that could be done, but sanctioned bodies don't allow any more for the safety of the drivers.

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you guys are fuckers. dont even cut me in on this.

+1 ....IBTL :P

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I wanna be a post -----!!!! PLEASE!!!!!

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no. you gotta have talent for it.

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post whoring oh yeah ;D

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quiet you !

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quiet you !

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huh ???