Why Drag Racing Is Bad ASS !
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Some Unbelieveable Facts For You Haters !
This is a big stick it in your ass to all the drag race haters around here. 
Read all of this there is some unreal info. in it !
One cylinder of the eight cylinders of a Top Fuel dragster or a Funny Car produces 750 horsepower, equaling the entire horsepower output of a NASCAR engine.
The gasoline-powered engines of NHRA Pro Stock cars produce about 1,200 horsepower, about eight times that of the average street car.
NHRA Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars consume between four and five gallons of fuel during a quarter-mile run, which is equivalent to between 16 and 20 gallons per mile.
NHRA Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars use between 10 and 12 gallons of fuel for a complete pass, including the burnout, backup to the starting line, and quarter-mile run.
NHRA Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars travel the length of more than four football fields in less than five seconds.
From a standing start, NHRA Top Fuel dragsters accelerate faster than a jumbo jet, a fighter jet, and a Formula One race car.
A fuel pump for an NHRA Top Fuel dragster and Funny Car delivers 65 gallons of fuel per minute, equivalent to eight bathroom showers running at the same time. :o :o
The fuel-line pressure for NHRA Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars is between 400 and 500 pounds, about 20 times greater than the pressure on passenger-car fuel pumps.
The 17-inch rear tires used on NHRA Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars wear out after four to six runs, or about two miles. Some brands of passenger-car tires are guaranteed for 80,000 miles.
It's desirable for an NHRA Top Fuel dragster to race with its front wheels inches off the ground for about the first 200 feet of the run. This ensures proper weight transfer to the rear wheels, a crucial part of a good launch and quick run.
The nitromethane used to power the engines of NHRA Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars costs about $30 per gallon.
NHRA Top Fuel Dragsters can exceed 280 mph in just 660 feet.
NHRA Top Fuel Dragsters are slowed by a reverse force five times that of gravity when both parachutes deploy simultaneously.
NHRA Top Fuel Dragsters leave the starting line with a force six times that of gravity, the same as the space shuttle when it leaves the launch pad at Cape Canaveral.
NHRA Top Fuel Dragsters accelerates from 0 to 100 mph in less than 0.8 second, almost 11 seconds quicker than a production Porsche 911 Turbo takes to reach the same speed.
It takes just 15/100 of a second for all 6,000 horsepower of an NHRA Top Fuel Dragster engine to reach the rear wheels.
Depending on size and angle, the large rear wing of a NHRA Top Fuel Dragster develops between 4,000 to 8,000 pounds of downforce.
Under full throttle, this 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 density.
Each quarter mile run by this dragster costs approximately $1,000 per second ... if nothing blows up!
One TF dragster's 500-inch Hemi makes more horsepower than the first 8 rows at the Daytona 500.
A stock passenger car Hemi will not produce enough power to drive the dragster's supercharger.
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. The engine can only be shut down by cutting the fuel flow. :o :o
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. They reach 200 mph well before 1/2 track.
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 9500rpm
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 200mph and not only cought, but nearly blasted you off the road when he passed you within a mere 1320 feet.
This last fact is mind boggling....
Read all of this there is some unreal info. in it !
One cylinder of the eight cylinders of a Top Fuel dragster or a Funny Car produces 750 horsepower, equaling the entire horsepower output of a NASCAR engine.
The gasoline-powered engines of NHRA Pro Stock cars produce about 1,200 horsepower, about eight times that of the average street car.
NHRA Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars consume between four and five gallons of fuel during a quarter-mile run, which is equivalent to between 16 and 20 gallons per mile.
NHRA Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars use between 10 and 12 gallons of fuel for a complete pass, including the burnout, backup to the starting line, and quarter-mile run.
NHRA Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars travel the length of more than four football fields in less than five seconds.
From a standing start, NHRA Top Fuel dragsters accelerate faster than a jumbo jet, a fighter jet, and a Formula One race car.
A fuel pump for an NHRA Top Fuel dragster and Funny Car delivers 65 gallons of fuel per minute, equivalent to eight bathroom showers running at the same time. :o :o
The fuel-line pressure for NHRA Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars is between 400 and 500 pounds, about 20 times greater than the pressure on passenger-car fuel pumps.
The 17-inch rear tires used on NHRA Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars wear out after four to six runs, or about two miles. Some brands of passenger-car tires are guaranteed for 80,000 miles.
It's desirable for an NHRA Top Fuel dragster to race with its front wheels inches off the ground for about the first 200 feet of the run. This ensures proper weight transfer to the rear wheels, a crucial part of a good launch and quick run.
The nitromethane used to power the engines of NHRA Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars costs about $30 per gallon.
NHRA Top Fuel Dragsters can exceed 280 mph in just 660 feet.
NHRA Top Fuel Dragsters are slowed by a reverse force five times that of gravity when both parachutes deploy simultaneously.
NHRA Top Fuel Dragsters leave the starting line with a force six times that of gravity, the same as the space shuttle when it leaves the launch pad at Cape Canaveral.
NHRA Top Fuel Dragsters accelerates from 0 to 100 mph in less than 0.8 second, almost 11 seconds quicker than a production Porsche 911 Turbo takes to reach the same speed.
It takes just 15/100 of a second for all 6,000 horsepower of an NHRA Top Fuel Dragster engine to reach the rear wheels.
Depending on size and angle, the large rear wing of a NHRA Top Fuel Dragster develops between 4,000 to 8,000 pounds of downforce.
Under full throttle, this 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 density.
Each quarter mile run by this dragster costs approximately $1,000 per second ... if nothing blows up!
One TF dragster's 500-inch Hemi makes more horsepower than the first 8 rows at the Daytona 500.
A stock passenger car Hemi will not produce enough power to drive the dragster's supercharger.
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. The engine can only be shut down by cutting the fuel flow. :o :o
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. They reach 200 mph well before 1/2 track.
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 9500rpm
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 200mph and not only cought, but nearly blasted you off the road when he passed you within a mere 1320 feet.
This last fact is mind boggling....
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I am printing all that, god damn good find!
That is why I go to the Gators every year!
The most kick ass event in March every damn year, 3 days of fun, 1 day of viewing all the big bad machines being prepped and worked on and checked over 20 times before race day, then 2 days of pure alchohol started then Nitromethane burning 6000 hp bad ass machines!
Not to forget the crying due to the nitromethane floating through the air, watching the flags fly just to check wind direction when you hear them start up so you aren't trapped in the crowd to inhale instant tears and the best burning sensation that not even EverClear could give your throat!"
That is indeed why I love racing!
Scott where did u find that stuff?
Chris
That is why I go to the Gators every year!
The most kick ass event in March every damn year, 3 days of fun, 1 day of viewing all the big bad machines being prepped and worked on and checked over 20 times before race day, then 2 days of pure alchohol started then Nitromethane burning 6000 hp bad ass machines!
Not to forget the crying due to the nitromethane floating through the air, watching the flags fly just to check wind direction when you hear them start up so you aren't trapped in the crowd to inhale instant tears and the best burning sensation that not even EverClear could give your throat!"
That is indeed why I love racing!
Scott where did u find that stuff?
Chris
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Those who risk nothing, those who live their lives in fear, will never have that chance.
Failure is not a sin. It’s being too afraid to even try, that is a sin.
Great accomplishment only comes with great risk. I’ll accept the crippling, gut wrenching disappointment of risking all, and failing, but only by putting my whole heart and soul, my whole being into something, will I have the chance to walk among the stars.
Those who risk nothing, those who live their lives in fear, will never have that chance.
Failure is not a sin. It’s being too afraid to even try, that is a sin.
