Thread: i need some TF info for school please

Tweet

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

And then there is the time at Fremont--night race--earlier in the afternoon there was an obnoxious guy with a large sombreo leaning over the fence as we pushed down--leaning way out so far that we had to drive around him
wellllll----first round he was still there causing trouble--so I told Rick to lite it off just as we got to him and wing it----yep-set the sombreo on fire and blew it up in the air where it just sorta spun around before balling back to ground like some July 4 fireworks


Memories---

LMFAO thats great!

and i hope you guys dont mind but i need to use some of your names for my work cited page for this paper?
does anyone object?

This isn't necessarily about TF engines but i like to pull it out once in awhile just to read it.


* One Top Fuel dragster 500 cubic inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than the first 4 rows at the Daytona 500. * Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 1-1/2 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 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 (stoichiometry: methodology and technology by which quantities of reactants and products in chemical reactions are determined) 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture for 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 gases. * 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 half 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 seconds 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 miles per hour before you have completed reading this sentence. * Top Fuel Engines turn approximately 540 revolutions from light to light! * Including the burnout the engine must only survive 900 revolutions under load. * The redline is actually quite high at 9500rpm. The Bottom Line: Assuming all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, and for once NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs an estimated $1,000.00 per second. The current Top Fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.441 seconds for the quarter mile (10/05/03, Tony Schumacher). The top speed record is 333.00 mph. (533 km/h) as measured over the last 66' of the run (09/28/03 Doug Kalitta). Putting all of this into perspective: You are driving the average $140,000 Lingenfelter "twin-turbo" powered Corvette Z06. 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. You run the 'Vette hard up through the gears and blast across the starting line and past the dragster at an honest 200 mph. The 'tree' goes green for both of you at that moment. The dragster launches and starts after you. You keep your foot down hard, but you hear an incredibly brutal whine that sears your eardrums and within 3 seconds the dragster catches and passes you. He beats you to the finish line, a quarter mile away from where you just passed him. Think about it, from a standing start, the dragster had spotted you 200 mph and not only caught, but nearly blasted you off the road when he passed you within a mere 1320 foot long race course.

Might also want to research and see if you can find some of Don Garlit's quotes, he had some good ones over the years......

isnt it closer to 7,000?
not trying to argue i think thats what i heard .
and the little clip in your signature is awesome!!

oh and so no one objects to their name in my paper? lol

there is an excellent article about Fuel and Guts in the current issue of the Rodder's Journal about top fuel racing over the years--available at Borders, Barnes and Noble, etc---maybe some libraries

Nice photos also

Jerry

Originally Posted by DennyW

I watch watching the drags today, and they were saying to go 4.44, it takes 8,000 hp. I don't actually know myself, but they were talking about a lot of times, and the power it needs to get there.

Oh, my cop chase clip ?? Yeah, I had fun making it up. I'm going to expand the chase one of these times...

ps: I should add, they were talking top fuel hp.

i must have heard wrong then lol

and yeah that clip makes me laugh everytime i see it lol

took me forever to update this but
thank you all for all of your help
i got 100% on the paper
thanks again fellas!!!
steve

I just love a happy ending

Thats great!!!!

I once did a paper on it WAYYYYY brfore I did any fuel racing, but the hardest paper about an inambinate??? object, I wrote about a paper clip!!!!
funny thing, I find life is pretty much somewhere between the two--you know, paperclip-top fuel- paper clip- top fuel-paper clip------

Jerry

I submitted an excellent paper my senior year in high school... All referenced properly, footnotes and all that other stuff..... Too bad my brother Rick had the same teacher 2 years prior and remembered it....

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

I submitted an excellent paper my senior year in high school... All referenced properly, footnotes and all that other stuff..... Too bad my brother Rick had the same teacher 2 years prior and remembered it....