Thanks for the info, Mark. Will be doing that for sure.

The V12 is loud but not stupidly loud. Sounds like power.

 

Evening everyone.

I don't know if it was an option for Mobark or what...but I remember the first time I saw a 3412 powered tub grinder take out the stump from a 80 year old oak tree I was impressed

 

Hello everyone.
Went to the track this weekend to watch the NHRA races.
Came away with this little tidbit.

YouTube - Thunder.mov

 

Morning All.. Coffee is on...

 

Good Morning All!

Coffee is ready, come and get it!

 

Dan, all i can say about that video is wow.

 

I used a stump grinder for in ground stumps...

it had a 60 hp air cooled wisconsin engine....hydraulics moved it left to right and in and out....about 4 feet travel in both directions...

now they have them a little bigger than a rototiller!

 

Okay, so time to bragg..

My normal morning is up at 4, feed the pup, take a shower, sip of coffeee, walk the dog, finish coffee and watch the news before I head off to work.

Last night my son asked that I wake him for the walk.. So, today, I had the company of my oldest for a walk and the news.. It was a great morning!!!

 

Last time I went to a drag race they weren't that loud.
Loud enough to require ear plugs, yes but not enough to shake the grandstands like that.
This time they've gotten so good at making HP that you can see the result.
I was very surpised the first run down the track of a top fuel car that day.
They don't call them ground pounders for nothing.

Treasure those times.
The best things in life don't cost any money.

 

yuppers on that!!
my building contractor was sitting here in the office before when i played that video, and he agreed with me on the wow.
we started talking about back in the day when i raced and worked at Englishtown Raceway Park. and there was nowhere as much power as those cars had back in the late 70's early 80's.

the closest you got to that kind of power was the shockwave triple jet engine jet truck.

 

Morning all!!!!

 

Good Morning All!

Happy Hump Day!

 

Funny someone should bring this up...I just got this in my emailbox last night.

One top fuel dragster 500 cubic inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than the first 4 rows of stock cars at the Daytona 500.

It takes just 15/100ths of a second for all 6,000+ horsepower of an NHRA Top Fuel dragster engine to reach the rear wheels.

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 drive the dragster's supercharger.

With 3,000 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 of nitro methane, the flame front temperature measures 7,050 deg 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 halfway, the engine is dieseling from compression, plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1,400 deg 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 9,500 rpm.

Assuming all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, and for once NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs an estimate $1,000.00 per second.

The current top fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.428 seconds for the quarter mile (11/12/06, Tony Schumacher, at Pomona , CA ). The top speed record is 336.15 mph as measured over the last 66' of the run (05/25/05 Tony Schumacher, at Hebron , OH ).

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 pass 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 1,320 foot long race course.

 

Hi Everyone been busy @ the shop, got lots done,,,,

 

Good Morning All!

One more day till the weekend!