i saw a post on drag racing facts and i cant fined it now. can some one help me fined it. it was about a month ago. thank you.
bmxjtk

 

DID YOU KNOW:

… that the nitromethane-powered engines of NHRA Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars produce approximately 8,000 horsepower, about 43 times that of the average street car?
… that 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?
… that the gasoline-powered engines of NHRA Pro Stock cars produce about 1,200 horsepower, about eight times that of the average street car?
… that an NHRA Top Fuel dragster accelerates from 0 to 100 mph in less than .8-second, almost 11 seconds quicker than it takes a production Porsche 911 Turbo to reach the same speed?
… that an NHRA Top Fuel dragster leaves the starting line with a force nearly five times that of gravity, the same force of the space shuttle when it leaves the launching pad at Cape Canaveral?
… that an NHRA Funny Car is slowed by a reverse force more than seven times that of gravity when both parachutes deploy simultaneously?
… that 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?
… that 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?
… that NHRA Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars travel the length of more than four football fields in less than five seconds?
… that NHRA Top Fuel dragsters can exceed 280 mph in just 660 feet?
… that from a standing start, NHRA Top Fuel dragsters accelerate faster than a jumbo jet, a fighter jet, and a Formula One race car?
… that 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?
… that 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?
… that depending on size and angle, the large rear wing on an NHRA Top Fuel dragster develops between 4,000 and 8,000 pounds of downforce?
… that 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.
… that it takes just 15/100ths of a second for all 8,000 horsepower of an NHRA Top Fuel dragster engine to reach the rear wheels?
… that 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.
… that the nitromethane used to power the engines of NHRA Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars costs about $30 per gallon?
• Top Fuel dragsters reach over 300 miles per hour before you have completed reading this sentence.
• 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 nitro methane 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 turn 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 nitro methane the flame front temperature measures 7,050 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.
• 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 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 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.
• 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 $240,000 NASCAR Winston Cup racecar. 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 stock car 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.

 

There are several versions of that all basically saying the same things but your list has some glaring mistakes that came from using a combination of old and newer fact lists. First it claims that 1 cyl produces 750hp equal the hp of a nascar engine, yet the engine produces 8000hp ooops someone needs to go back to school, each cyl produces over 1000hp (8000hp/8cylinders equals 1000hp each) second one on that list is that it produces more hp then the front 4 rows at daytona actually it's the front 5+ rows at daytona. But I love that list of facts it's some really interesting stuff.
One thing I have always noticed with all the lists is they note that the dodge hemi doesn't have enough hp to turn over the supercharger but I did some searching one time and found out that there has never been a factory production engine built that can turn on over (just to give a little more prospective on that) And infact my 900hp big block race engine is barely able to turn it over even at the lowest estimates on the draw of that supercharger (somewhere between 850-1500hp just to turn over the supercharger)

 

i didnt write it i just had it saved on my comp and figured id post it for him.

 

Sorry I didn't mean it sound like I was picking on you or anything. That was nice of you to post it for him, I was just correcting some of the errors in that one version. I think I have seen atleast 10 slightly different versions of it some better than others. Yours actually has a lot more info than some do but some of the info is from an original version and they have added to it.

 

To expand on the prospective, the dragster would be doing what it is designed to do. If at the end of the quarter mile there was a tight left turn, the dragster is in big trouble.
Dono

 

thats probably true but if it was a right hand corner, and it was a nascar driving the other car then I would think the guy in the dragster would still stand a pretty good chance cause those nascar guys can't turn right for nothing.

 

Does Watkins Glen, Sears Point or the Mexico race ring a bell? I was at the Glen and they were turning right quite well. I'm not knocking drag racing - back in the day, I used to drag motorcycles and ran a C-Gas car. It was the apple /oranges I was talking about.
Dono

 

yep those tracks all ring a bell only nextal cup races I watch, and if you watch closely those guys spin out quite frequently, and always on right hand corners but on top of that I was bieng fasicous (spl?) or just trying to be funny oh well guess my humor don't translate to typed words very well.

 

Nascar... go fast, turn left.

NHRA... go fast, and what's this turning crap?

(In defence of monster's sence of humor )

 

Interesting thing about left/right turns. I have always believed a good driver could turn either way, but back in the day (waaaay back) I used to race motorcycles in what were called TT (Tourist Trophy) races. For some reason a 90 degree left turn was easier than a 90 degree right turn. I never figured out why, but I busted my butt a few times treating them the same.
Dono