Top Fuel dragster racing a stock vehicle

[trev0006]

Top Fuel dragster racing a stock vehicle (http://www.dpccars.com/car-videos-08/05-15-08page-Top-Fuel-dragster-racing-a-stock-vehicle.htm)

[Ben]

0-100mph in 1 second, thats neat. The in car view was awesome. GONE.

[BerserkerCatSplat]

Loved the in-car shot, TFD's are a whole different kind of fast!

[Z_Fan]

Yeah, absolutely incredible point of view from the in car camara. Just insane.

[Trini]

insane
love the burn outs

[1-Bar]

wow...just hit the brakes and he'll fly right by.....

[alpineguy]

Data from a current Top Fuel (TF) Dragster. Unbelievable acceleration to say the least. Enjoy:

One TF dragster's 500-inch Hemi makes more horsepower (7000 HP) than the first 8 rows at the Daytona 500.

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.
A stock hemi will not produce enough power to drive the dragster's
supercharger which requires 1000 HP just to pump more air into the engine
(but returns 3000 HP).

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 nitro methane measures 7050 degrees F.

Nitro methane 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 ?
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.

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.

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 completed
reading this sentence.

Top Fuel Engines turn ONLY 540 revolutions from light to light!

The redline is actually quite high at 9500 rpm

The current TF dragster elapsed time record is 4.477 seconds for
the quarter mile (06/02/01 Kenny Bernstein)

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 across 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.
That, folks, is acceleration.

Think about it, from a standing start, this phenomenal machine has spotted you 200 mph and not only caught, but nearly blasted you off the road when he passed you within a mere 1320 feet.

Now....., tell me about the time you spun the wheels and laid rubber on dry concrete.

[Super_Geo]

Pff whatever, my car would kill it in the corners.... :rofl:

[GoChris]

insane...like a fighter jet doing a fly by