I love this video and it’s be a while since I posted it.
This is a representation of how much fuel flows into just one of eight cylinders in the engine of a Top Fuel Drag Racing Car. At first the engine is just idling then it simulates a roughly four second run under full throttle then shut down.
A Top Fuel engine will burn about 12 gallons of Nitromethane between start up and shut down. Nitro costs $100 per gallon. At full throttle the engine will produce between 8500 and 10,000 horsepower. The average passenger car produces around 150 horsepower.
Frightening but one has only to recall a space shuttle launch. There a relatively small shuttle is strapped to a 300 foot tall fuel tank and that enormous fuel tank is emptied in a few minutes. I read somewhere the energy released is on the order of 2000 tons of TNT!
Hi yall, just discovered the platform recently and this my first comment,
I love drag racing. Nothing like the smell of burning rubber and the burn in your eyes from the nitro.
The supercharger on a top fueler takes more HP to turn than most cars produce now a days. After less than half track all spark plugs are fouled out and the engine is “dieseling” from that point on. To put fuel consumption into perspective it consumes the same rate that a 747 would burn with a 23% increase in efficiency. The fuel is also compress to an almost solid form before ignition. Each spark plug recieves the same amount of power that is used in an arch welder. An engine miss, or failed ignition of a cylinder will cause a nitro build up and blow the heads off the engine. The engine only has to survive 900 revolutions. It takes 550 (+/-) revolutions to go from light to light.
Good candidate for the Professional Superfluous Sports Award (the coveted PSSA): NASCAR zooming, NBA hooping, PGA putting, MLB scratching, NFL dancing, WBA bleeding, tennis grunting, hockey pucking, bowling balls, horse and dog racing, boat and airplane racing, etc. However: track, trap shooting and beach volleyball should be accentuated.
Top fuel dragsters are indeed mind boggling. I’m not much of a drag racing fan, but those cars are amazing.
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Hate to be the one to say it, but a stock 100D Tesla (with slicks) competes successfully against these guys. Some kid in the Southeast posts videos. Before you flame me, I know, I know, Elon Musk sucks.
Bullshit! Post some vids of a Tesla….any Tesla competing against a Top Fuel dragster. Hell, show me a video of any Tesla simply staged at the lights against a Top Fuel Dragster. I’d bet a top fuel car could *tow* a Tesla 100D behind it down the track and still beat an stock Tesla 100D in the next lane by a wide margin.
“…with the fastest competitors reaching speeds of 335 miles per hour (539 km/h) and finishing the 1,000 foot (305 m) runs in 3.7 seconds.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Fuel
I’m not a high speed car fan and don’t know that much about their performance, but I don’t think a Tesla will do that.
I watch that kids videos. He’s not competing against Top Fuel or anything close . An average top fueler would cut his time in half. He’s only running an eighth of a mile anyways. I do like what a shit talker he is. Somebody’s going to kick his ass one day.
I remember when breaking the 7 second 1/4 mile was a big deal, then the 6 second. Then I developed other interests. I was out for lunch last year, drag racing was on the TV & I was amazed that they’ve practically halved the times since the late 60s. Pretty amazing stuff.
As a kid, I was a big fan of the swamp rat Don Garlits. I remember when his rear seat slingshot dragster clutch exploded and cut the thing in half. After that he put the seat in front of the engine and the rest is history.
Also liked Wild Willie Borsch and his AA/FA car. Light, short, and all engine. He would sometimes get sideways at the line. Left hand to hang onto the door and the right hand at the wheel during a full throttle power drift. Here is a story from his son Robert.
“For those of you who knew and those of you who didn’t, my father, Wild Willie Borsch, had narcolepsy. That’s a sleeping disorder where he could fall asleep at the wink of an eye, even at the starting line. You’ll have to ask Mousie Marcellus (his engine builder and team member) about those times.
Well it was back in 1988. My dad and I went out to eat one night. We were in an old Jaguar he had restored. We were listening to old radio shows when we came to a stoplight. The light was long; he just stared straight ahead. I thought he fell asleep.
Just then, the light turned green. He slammed the pedal to the floor, throwing me back into my seat. I looked back over at him and saw he had his hand clutched tight to the door, just as he used to do in his altered. He let up, looked at me, and tried to smile. I could see his eyes watering up. It was then that I knew just how much my dad missed racing.”
Robert Borsch
WTF. I can’t imagine anything more pointless.
Chubby Bubbles is a rather inane handle. Just sayin’.