Originally Posted by Duceanahalf
You should send this revalation to the Top Fuel teams that spend millions of dollars just to get a gain that is measured in ten thousandanths of a second. because i doubt a heavy equipment CV axle that weighs thousands of pounds will not hurt them at all, even i have never seen a Top fuel car break an axle because the tires cannot contain the 6000-9000HP that they are producing, through a Ford 9 inch rear end that was designed in the 60's
First of all I don't doubt the ingenuity of people working on TopFuel dragsters. Honestly a lot of the great minds have left the sport because of NHRA's habit of banning some of the greatest ideas. The first guy who comes to mind is Bob Norwood, then ther was a guy in the 60's and 70's from the Kissimmee area who built some really interesting wheel driven rocket powered machines.
Also, not one of the top level rearends came from ford. They may share their architecture with something ford designed 40 yrs ago, but but a Strange Engineering titanium rear axle with a Lokar spool and all Strange axles, gears etc. IS NOT a 'Ford' 9inch, just like the "Mopar" engines they use... I chanllenge anyone to find a single Chrysler piece on one of those motors....
It truly wouldn't surprise me if what I'm talking about is actually banned, but you guys are really demonstrating a huge inability to think outside the box. You think IRS is always wide???? It's doesnt have to be:
And that setup could easily be narrowed another 12 inches or more, plus it's in the back of a tiny 510.
Anyway's a DeDion is what I would really use for a drag car, seriously go look it up, It can be bolted in as a 4-link, it can be as narrow as you want. Like I said the point is to isolate drivetrain torque, IRS and DeDion do this because the diff and the engine are mounted to the same piece (body).
DeDion setup with a normal TopFuel type diff, narrowed to just the housing around the carrier, and some Tatra halfshafts.....