10-27-2003, 05:17 AM
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Re: Some interesting facts about top fuel dragsters...
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Originally Posted by dis3as3d
Top Fuel Dragsters reach over 300 miles per hour before you finish reading this sentence.
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I dont know i can read pretty quick 
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11-03-2003, 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by heath
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Originally Posted by SFDMALEX
Cool stuff. But the reliability is worse then on a fiat lolll.
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bahahhahahaha
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...but pretty much sums up all domestic cars in the USA... 
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11-03-2003, 04:44 PM
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yeah because you see top fuel dragsters on the road all the time in the US :S
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12-23-2003, 01:49 PM
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I remember getting those facts in a forward awhile back.
Another fact is they go 0-100mph in less that 0.8 seconds.
I wanted to find a 0-60mph statistic but I couldn't find it. I wonder why 
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12-23-2003, 01:50 PM
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I remember getting those facts in a forward awhile back.
Another fact is they go 0-100mph in less that 0.8 seconds.
I wanted to find a 0-60mph statistic but I couldn't find it. I wonder why
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12-23-2003, 01:58 PM
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I remember getting those facts in a forward awhile back.
Another fact is they go 0-100mph in less that 0.8 seconds.
I wanted to find a 0-60mph statistic but I couldn't find it. I wonder why
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12-23-2003, 03:12 PM
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The acceleration is brutal--can you imagaine accelerating to 120mph faster than an F-18 that is CATAPULTED (not purely under its own power!)??!!
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01-08-2004, 08:07 PM
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those engines are nuts, too bad they're incredibly unreliable
if only they could fix that and then drop one into something that turns....
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01-09-2004, 09:55 AM
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Yeah those are some pretty interesting statistics! I went to go and the top fuel dragsters at Santa Pod last summer and the speed that those go is insane - not to mention the noise that they make!
Another interesting thing is that when the tyres they are rolling up to the start and look creased and folded is due to the torque from the engine at the start literally twisting the tyres before turning them! That's power..
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01-09-2004, 10:09 AM
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Originally Posted by astonmartinandy
Another interesting thing is that when the tyres they are rolling up to the start and look creased and folded is due to the torque from the engine at the start literally twisting the tyres before turning them! That's power..
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Actually the tires aren't fully inflated so that the insane amount of heat created by all the friction can expand the air and fill the tires.
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01-09-2004, 11:43 AM
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did u know it takes no skill at all to be a drag driver 
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01-09-2004, 12:06 PM
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Thanks for the info.
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01-10-2004, 02:04 AM
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Originally Posted by toronto
did u know it takes no skill at all to be a drag driver |
It takes plenty of skill not to shit your pants when you hit the loud pedal on a 6,000hp missle.
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01-10-2004, 02:18 AM
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Originally Posted by zevolv
Actually the tires aren't fully inflated so that the insane amount of heat created by all the friction can expand the air and fill the tires.
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i agree that the friction would partially inflate the tire, but i thought it was mainly due to teh centripital force generated by the rotating tire...hence the tire getting taller and thinner.
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01-10-2004, 02:54 AM
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It also probably takes quite a bit of skill to launch something with 3000+ horsepower without spinning the tires and to keep these things going in a straight line while under 8 G's of acceleration. Plus having a name like "John Force" is pretty cool.
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