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The
> following statistics are
> 100% true.....
>
> DEFINITION OF
> ACCELERATION
>
> 1. One top fuel dragster 500
> cubic inch Hemi engine
> makes more horsepower than the first 4 rows of
> stock cars at the
> Daytona 500.
>
> 2. 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.
>
> 3. 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.
>
> 4. 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.
>
> 5. Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock
> at full throttle.
>
> 6. 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.
>
> 7. 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.
>
> 8. 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.
>
> 9. 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 8
> G's.
>
> 10. Top
> Fuel Dragsters reach over 300 miles per hour before you
> have completed reading
> this sentence.
>
> 11. Top fuel engines turn approximately 540
> revolutions from light to light! Including the burnout, the
> engine must only
> survive 900 revolutions under load.
>
> 12. The redline is actually
> quite high at 9,500 rpm which is reached in less than a
> quarter second under
> full throttle.
>
> 13. 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.
>
> 14. 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:
>
> Imagine are driving the average
> $140,000 Lingenfelter
> 'twin-turbo' powered Corvette Z06. Over a mile 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.
>
> ...... and
> that my friend, is
> ACCELERATION
> following statistics are
> 100% true.....
>
> DEFINITION OF
> ACCELERATION
>
> 1. One top fuel dragster 500
> cubic inch Hemi engine
> makes more horsepower than the first 4 rows of
> stock cars at the
> Daytona 500.
>
> 2. 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.
>
> 3. 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.
>
> 4. 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.
>
> 5. Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock
> at full throttle.
>
> 6. 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.
>
> 7. 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.
>
> 8. 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.
>
> 9. 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 8
> G's.
>
> 10. Top
> Fuel Dragsters reach over 300 miles per hour before you
> have completed reading
> this sentence.
>
> 11. Top fuel engines turn approximately 540
> revolutions from light to light! Including the burnout, the
> engine must only
> survive 900 revolutions under load.
>
> 12. The redline is actually
> quite high at 9,500 rpm which is reached in less than a
> quarter second under
> full throttle.
>
> 13. 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.
>
> 14. 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:
>
> Imagine are driving the average
> $140,000 Lingenfelter
> 'twin-turbo' powered Corvette Z06. Over a mile 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.
>
> ...... and
> that my friend, is
> ACCELERATION
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