Zero to 60 in 1 second!

[old&slow]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/carroll/bal-md.fastcar07feb07,0,787895,full.story

[PureDeXteritY]

sounds badass, but a video of the 0-60 in action would have been a little better

[chkolny541]

i wonder how it would feel to go 0-60 in 1 sec, if would pull an uncomfortable amount of g's

[Sophal]

Originally posted by chkolny541
i wonder how it would feel to go 0-60 in 1 sec, if would pull an uncomfortable amount of g's

Probably nothing.. 2g's at most. likely just over 1 g.... Sudden stopping and crazy corning is where the g forces are at

[GQBalla]

pretty crazy ahaha

[Graham_A_M]

2400 on pump gas. WOW. Thats fucking surreal. :eek:

"roll up windows" and all.
I can't even fathom a 6.95 time. :nut:
I'd be quite happy if my car did 11.

[corsvette]

Originally posted by chkolny541
i wonder how it would feel to go 0-60 in 1 sec, if would pull an uncomfortable amount of g's

Think about how 0-120 mph would feel in a dragster,Crazy fast!

[foos_guy]

Originally posted by Sophal


Probably nothing.. 2g's at most. likely just over 1 g.... Sudden stopping and crazy corning is where the g forces are at

At 60 mph, he's moving ~26.8 m/s. He's pulling about 2.7 Gs...

[Eleanor]

Originally posted by foos_guy
At 60 mph, he's moving ~26.8 m/s. He's pulling about 2.7 Gs... This.

To put that into perspective, the Space Shuttle pulls about 3G's on launch :D

[89coupe]

I think a Top Fuel Dragster has the most impressive stats!

One dragster's 500-inch Hemi makes more horsepower then the first 8 rows at
Daytona.

Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 1 ½ gallons of nitro per
second, the same rate of fuel consumption as a fully loaded 747, but with 4
times the energy density.

The supercharger takes more power to drive then a stock hemi makes.

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
exhaust stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from
atmospheric water vapour by the searing exhaust gases.

Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After ½ 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 its 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 crank) that sometimes cam lobes are ground offset from front to rear to
re-phase the valve timing somewhere closer to synchronisation 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 ½ 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 turns 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!

TOP FUEL DRAGSTER SPECIFICATIONS


WHEELBASE: 300 in.
WEIGHT: 2,225 lbs. (with driver)
ENGINE: 500 cid V-8
HP: 8,000
TORQUE: 4,500-6,500 lb.-ft.
FUEL: Nitromethane/methanol mix
TOP SPEED: 330 mph
AVERAGE E.T.: 4.65 sec.
0-60 MPH: 0.5 sec.
0-100 MPH: 0.8 sec.
0-200 MPH: 2.5 sec.
G-FORCE: 5.5-6 gs (equal to a space shuttle launch)
COST PER RUN: $5,000
VEHICLE COST: $250,000

[Lanks]

Originally posted by foos_guy


At 60 mph, he's moving ~26.8 m/s. He's pulling about 2.7 Gs...



Originally posted by Eleanor
This.

To put that into perspective, the Space Shuttle pulls about 3G's on launch :D

I think you guys are confusing speed with acceleration. Just because he's traveling at 26.8 m/s does not indicate that he's pulling 2.7 G's. I regularly travel at speeds in excess of 300mph with no additional G forces. Now if he were accelerating at 26 m/s²...

[Eleanor]

Originally posted by Lanks
I think you guys are confusing speed with acceleration. Just because he's traveling at 26.8 m/s does not indicate that he's pulling 2.7 G's. I regularly travel at speeds in excess of 300mph with no additional G forces. Now if he were accelerating at 26 m/s²... Or maybe he went 0-60mph in 1 second, which means he was accelerating at 26.8m/s²

v1 = 60mph = 26.8m/s
v0 = 0mph = 0 m/s
t1-t0 = 1 s

dv/dt = (v1-v0)/(t1-t0) = (26.8 m/s - 0 m/s)/(1 s) = 26.8 m/s²
g = 9.81 m/s²

(26.8m/s²) / (9.81 m/s²) = 2.7

;)

[Lanks]

^LOL ahh yes me=fail.forgot he did it in one second.

[jsn]

^^89coupe.

Dragsters definitely have better specs than this car, but this car is street legal! That's pretty amazing for a street legal car IMO.

[Super_Geo]

Originally posted by Eleanor
Or maybe he went 0-60mph in 1 second, which means he was accelerating at 26.8m/s²

v1 = 60mph = 26.8m/s
v0 = 0mph = 0 m/s
t1-t0 = 1 s

dv/dt = (v1-v0)/(t1-t0) = (26.8 m/s - 0 m/s)/(1 s) = 26.8 m/s²
g = 9.81 m/s²

(26.8m/s²) / (9.81 m/s²) = 2.7

;)

Haha I knew you guys in Eng were going to get a chubby as soon as someone asked how many Gs were pulled :rofl:

[Eleanor]

Originally posted by Super_Geo
Haha I knew you guys in Eng were going to get a chubby as soon as someone asked how many Gs were pulled :rofl: Hey, I could've done the calc differentiation, but I held back :poosie: :D

[Tomaz]

Originally posted by Super_Geo


Haha I knew you guys in Eng were going to get a chubby as soon as someone asked how many Gs were pulled :rofl:

Almost sig worthy!

[QuasarCav]

Originally posted by Eleanor
Hey, I could've done the calc differentiation, but I held back :poosie: :D


Past the first page and it's not even 4pm.

[Eleanor]

Originally posted by QuasarCav
Past the first page and it's not even 4pm. Set your posts/page higher, I'm still on the first page :D

[chkolny541]

Originally posted by Sophal


Probably nothing.. 2g's at most. likely just over 1 g.... Sudden stopping and crazy corning is where the g forces are at

yea i dont think this is correct either, to accelerate 0-60 in 1 second and you think this pulls just over 1 g...? :confused: :confused:

[chkolny541]

Originally posted by Lanks
I regularly travel at speeds in excess of 300mph with no additional G forces

:nut: :rofl:

im really curious what car or profession do you have that causes you to drive regularily at >300 km/h

unless your answer is "a top fuel dragster driver" or a "space shuttle test driver" i call:bullshit: :bullshit:

[YamahaV8]

Originally posted by chkolny541


:nut: :rofl:

im really curious what car or profession do you have that causes you to drive regularily at >300 km/h

unless your answer is "a top fuel dragster driver" or a "space shuttle test driver" i call:bullshit: :bullshit:

Are those really the only examples you can come up with before calling bullshit? He is probobly a pilot in which case 80% of the aircraft out there travel well in excess of 300 mph. The big hint was that he didn't say drive.

[scat19]

Originally posted by chkolny541


yea i dont think this is correct either, to accelerate 0-60 in 1 second and you think this pulls just over 1 g...? :confused: :confused:

They just figured it out using math, and you come to this conclusion :rofl:



Originally posted by YamahaV8


Are those really the only examples you can come up with before calling bullshit? He is probobly a pilot in which case 80% of the aircraft out there travel well in excess of 300 mph. The big hint was that he didn't say drive.

What makes him a pilot? lol

My dad flies, as a passenger, roughly 60,000miles a year. That is just under a 100,000 kilometers.

Business man that works in the states. You guys have some really funny conclusions

[YamahaV8]

Originally posted by scat19


They just figured it out using math, and you come to this conclusion :rofl:




What makes him a pilot? lol

My dad flies, as a passenger, roughly 60,000miles a year. That is just under a 100,000 kilometers.

Business man that works in the states. You guys have some really funny conclusions

Pilot or passenger big deal. At least I never said "space shuttle test driver".

[scat19]

Originally posted by YamahaV8


Pilot or passenger big deal. At least I never said "space shuttle test driver".

I never said it was a big deal. Just saying, that the first concusion they came up with was a pilot or something, and I just used an example which I know of personally.

[YamahaV8]

Originally posted by scat19


I never said it was a big deal. Just saying, that the first concusion they came up with was a pilot or something, and I just used an example which I know of personally.

Yeah true.