B-Man

I beg your pardon ! I am so sorry for invading into your personal forum reading time. I didn't realise that this had been posted before as I hadn't seen it myself and I thought maybe some others may enjoy. Feel free to igonore my post or if it annoys you so much, I can delete it at your conveinience. :upurs:

* One Top Fuel dragster 500 cubic inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than the first 4 rows at the Daytona 500. * Under full throttle, a Top Fuel dragster engine consumes 1&½ 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 426 Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to drive the dragster's supercharger. * With 3000 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 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture for nitro methane the flame front temperature measures 7050 degrees F. * Nitromethane 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 1/2 way, the engine is dieseling from compression plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1400 degrees 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 at 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 red-line is actually quite high at 9500 rpm. * The Bottom Line; Assuming all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, and for once NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs an estimated $1,000.00 per second. * The current Top Fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.441 seconds for the quarter mile (10/05/03, Tony Schumacher). The top speed record is 333.00 mph (533 km/h) as measured over the last 66' of the run (09/28/03 Doug Kalitta). Putting all of this into perspective: You are riding the average $250,000 Honda MotoGP bike. 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 RC211V hard up through the gears and blast across the starting line and past the dragster at an honest 200 mph (293 ft/sec). The 'tree' goes green for both of you at that moment. The dragster launches and starts after you. You keep your wrist cranked 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 1320 foot long race course. That, folks, is acceleration !!

I seen ya a couple of times PranK - but you don't wave back you biatch ! ha ha ha ha ha ha he ! Seriously - I been looking out for you PranK - but never see a WRX with SAU plates on around my area ! ha ha ha ha ! Ooopps did I say that !!

Spotted - "GTS-SKY" maroon GTS-T on Forest Way this arvo - I drove past in Gloria ! Nice Ride !

I have one for Sale: See here : http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/sh...GTR+Intercooler

Bring me back a Buddy Club each OK - (cabin luggage) Have fun guys ! Cheers,

What about a VQ35DETT or VG35DETT with 2 HGE snails ??? Much easier to fit in since Gloria came with VG20DET.......... Not that I have been thinking of a conversion ....... Wait, I can't do that - I would never hear the end of it from Boosted Zed !

Roy, you got thermostat with all that ??

What are you saying Merli ???? Time for an RB26DETT conversion for the Gloria ????

Ah good, I think I will be ready by then !

Click on the banner for more details !

I guess I will call them when I get back !

Duncan, it's been on and off the hoist and on plenty fo 'drives' - ask Dan how sweet it sounds - Noooiice ! ! !

Andrew, do you know the price ?? I am V.V.V.Interested - if the price is right - I'm away till the 2nd, so I'll check in after that .

Jason's g/f loves it - you should have seen here at the first course. ha ha ha !

OK, so I just downloaded the form. Now I need a damn fax number to send it back - why can't I do an online form like 'autosalon' ??? $50 ???? Huh, on the form it says $80 ??? Which is it ?? Which class details are we going in ?

Merry Christmas to all my friends on SAU ! Thanks for a great year ! Looking forward to an awesome year in 2004 ! Say hi to your mum for me ! PS - Here's a pic of my new cooler from Europe - it's called a "F.A.R.K.O.F.F." cooler and is very highly regarded over there. ! ! !

Yeah - come down for the weekend - we really quite friendly here in NSW !

So you can beat me ?????? ha ha ha

I'll get back to you ASAP - I need to find out how much it owes me and then work it out - (Going on Hols, back on the 2nd - hope you are not in a hurry)

I have one too - It has been polished on the outside so nice and shiny. Also has been extrusion honed & polished on the inside so zero roughness - A very nice job. I don't need anymore as upgraded to a GReddy/Trust plenum. Can supply throttle body & TPS too , if needed. Oh, and bottom half runners too - which have also been extrusion honed.

he he he "SAU" - Stageas Australia

Ha ha ha ha ha ha I like this one : "I think Excel's are good - cops doesn't go pound them and fit a turbo in there...should hand a lot of the R32/R33 stocko owners a new arse."

Yes yes yes - mine does this - I thought is was a problem with my pump - but if others do this too -then I guess not ! ! Phewwww - I feel a lot better now ! ! ! !

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