I’ve always loved high performance engines. I used to build racing engines in the 80’s that sold for $25,000. That’s roughly $76,000 today. The end goal was to race in NASCAR but the bastards wouldn’t license me since I’m blind in one eye. Most of the engines we built were for circle track racing but we built some truly savage street racing engines. All the proceeds and then some were used to support our own racing habit.

I knew that Top Fuel engines were some of the most extreme engines around but I never aspired to drag racing because the ride was too short. Blink and you’ve missed it! I came across this video via knuckledraggin.com which led me to the fact sheet below. The video depicts the amount of nitro-methane fuel pouring into each of eight cylinders at idle first then at full throttle. At full throttle each cylinder is consuming a staggering 1.4 gallons per second! That works out to roughly 45 gallons per mile! Fuel cost is approximately $3000 per 1/4 mile run including warm up and burn out to heat the tires.

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