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  • if you listen to this with headphones in at highest volume it is like you are actually there

  • @Maraud3r43 ~ My good friend (Phil) and I campaigned a '59 Plymouth in B/MP, in 1968 (Tweetie Bird) We ran a '58 392" Chrysler block, 2 four barrels, an Isky 505 roller, Jardine headers and one of Art Carr's "guaranteed not to blow up" high stall speed torqueflite transmissions which, unfortunately, blew up with me in the driver's seat @ Lions. Severed the dashboard, blew off the passenger door, broke my right leg and generally gave the appearance that an IED had gone off below the big Fury.

  • I grew up in SoCal and lived at Lions, Irwindale, OCIR, Fontana, Pomona (for the Big Go West) and Famosa (Bakersfield) for the Smokers' Meet. My first trip to the strip was March 1963 @ Lions.  Drag racing, real honest to God drag racing, has always been, and will always be, 1,320 feet and it's never mattered what class; top fuel, top gas (in the day), AA/GS, AA/FA, AF/X or a Ford Pinto stocker. Nitro, gasoline or hydrazine and it still doesn't matter. 1,000 feet is bullshit, a knockoff.

  • @MrRonnieG I raced street legals at the new irwindale... It just got shut down... owner was embezzling and toyota pulled the sponsor. now no more iriwndale dragstrip 

  • WASTED the opposing lane off the tree! Great video.

  • great audio and video. ..not to mention a badass run

  • ok, so i would like to know what class your running in? is there a 'circuit' for it?,,,actually, theres a whole mess of things Id like to ask but hopefully we can trade a few emails about it,,

    thanks

  • contued, sorry if I missunderstood your point. anyway, they are absolutely bar none, the coolest things on the planet...just my ever so humble opinion LOL nothing cooler to me anyway. Good luck and again, didn't mean to offend.

  • umm, I'm sorry, I read it wrong I guess. I got the impression you were saying he invented the idea while recouperating. Evidenlty that's not what you meant. I wasn't being anal, I was just trying to make a point and really wasn't trying to attack what you said, Garlits took the idea and made it happen. Others were trying and not being very sucessful. Not sure of the specifics of the issues but yea, garlits made it happen. he's the first one who really had any sucess with the RED. Sorry if I mis

  • Jaded, you are absolutely right. Garlits didn't do it first. And if you read what I wrote, I never said he was the first one to do it. I simply said he had the idea of moving his engine to the rear while he was recuperating. If you suddenly have the idea that you're going to Dairy Queen to get some ice cream, do you think that you're the first one in the world to actually do it? Geez stop being so anal.

  • In regard to the comment about switching from front to rear engine for safety sake.. Many teams started making the switch after the transmission in Big Daddy Don Garlits, Swamp Rat 13 exploded, cut off part of his foot and cut the dragster in half at Lions Raceway in 1968. Garlits came up with the idea of moving the engine to the back as he lay in the hospital recovering. Safety innovations were frequently responsible for advancing the sport and saving drivers AND spectators lives

  • @scurtish1 garlits was NOT the first to put the engines behind the driver. They were doing it long before Garlits blew it foot off. He IS the one that prefected it. Other guys tried but they were really difficult to get down the track straight. He wasn't the first but may have been the best.

  • To those whining about safety...what part of strapping yourself infront or or behind 1000s of horsepower at 300mph is safe?!! I dont think it matters where you fekkin sit. These men are heroes, and they know the risks. Godspeed to them.

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  • How old is the actual footage and also the dragster?

  • Man thats a nice run, bet its very light though, leaves HARD!!

  • Good eye, my bad!

  • holy fuck loud

  • i love this well done jim

  • thts right there is nothing chevrolet about this motor at all

  • looks like a rat motor, sorry mousers.

  • @saskatchawan Your right, it does " look like " a rat motor...BUT...if you look closely at it....it has 8

    valve cover bolts.....a BBC has 7.....this "looks" to me, alot more like an Iron Eagle "SBC" with symmetrical port heads....like Alan Johnson produces.

  • Skip to 2:05. 

  • Wow, what can I say but holy crap.5.95 nice man just brutal.

  • I notice the car has aerofoils in front of the rear wheels rather than mounted high up like a rear engine dragster. Clever!

    Is this a "nostalgia" type of race meeting with older style dragsters racing?

    Is the engine a Chev 350 or is it enlarged from that?

  • @OzzInter Hi, yea the air foils help aerodynamics. when you see the hug wing on the back fo a new model dragster that wing givs the tire traction via downforca speed 335 keep in mind the nostragia dragsterpus our approximately1/8th power of a fewer top fuel dragster roughly I've got a car that will to 927et 248mpgjy mor maks under 1000 hourse power so w sa that tjay make morepower in cylinder than my whold caermakes.

  • thats one big blower!

  • man these cars sound is just awsome i do realize that today the quarter mile is run at higher speeds yet and shorter times these must be and older type because now the driver is ahead of the engine mainly for safety reasons in the top fuel class but in the funny car class the driver is behind the engine and i have heard that for these top classes the pass has been cut down to 1000 feet rather than the 1320 feet or full quarter there must have been some fatal accidents at the top end 350 mph

  • @bernard240vdc Hello, yes, Scott Kalita died at Englishtown Raceway. There were several safety procedures put into place after that tragic accident. The shortened the length of the track from 1320 to 1000 feet which slows the top speed, and of course the elapsed time. Other thingswere changed anything that could possibly be hit in the shut down area was removed any littlestep in the wall was aligned so that a car out of control wouldn't catch onit at 335mph there were also changes made tothecars

  • @jaded16340 they are going 10 mph slower in 1000 ft than 1320ft.... you do the math. it isn't any safer. they are just going to go faster in a shorter amount of time. it wasn't a very well thought out plan.

  • @jenhawaii It's about them not necessarily running ALL THE WAY out the back door. They're shuttin' down about 300' earlier, thus maintaining a tad more control & not oiling the track down as often. There's no question that "the big end" is where they were losing control (dying & mixing up engine internals @ higher RPMs)That's the biggest consideration. Personally I HATE watching NHRA Top Fuel knowing that they're running some arbitrary 1000'. HELLO? It's always been called ¼ mile for a reason...

  • @STIRKDAWG Agreed, reducing the distance to 1000 feet, just like all the other attempts the NHRA idiots made to "slow the cars down" or "make them safer" didn't do jack shit. They reduced the volumn of the pump, they spin the blower faster, the shorten the distance to 1000 feet, they change the gearing so it's appropriate for that distance, they're already up around 320 or so if my memory serves. I should have looked it up before posting but it's well above 300 miles per hour. At a 1/4 mile the

  • @STIRKDAWG Continued, I really really hate this 500 charactor limit. It's not enough space to make a point. At 1/4 mile I think the record speed was 334 ish. At one point Doug Kalita had it but it seems to me someone beat it. Regardless, the net reduction in speed amounted to somewhere around 24 mph. Wow, that's gotta be SOO much safer...NOT. For every attempt to slow em down they find away around it. There are many ideas out there to slow them down, the common idea is to reduce the pump volumn.

  • @STIRKDAWG Continued, fuckin 500 charactor limit.. That would probably work IF they reduced it by a lot. Otherwise they just get around it by messing with timing and blower speed, clutch application, applying clutch disks a little sooner each resulting in 1:1 lock up sooner allowing them to slip early and apply stronger down track, fiddling with compression ratios. Crewchiefs are paid to come up with ways of beating the competition. this bullshit 1000' just make low buck teamsmore competitive.

  • Are those SB2.2 heads by chance? Nice run!

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  • If that don't give you a hard on nothing will. However, a 5.95 @ 202 doesn't sound right. You're moving quicker than 202 when running below 6.

  • Love this video!

  • answer me this....what do they take out of the butterflies just before pre-stage?

  • @rowleyac throttle limiters so they don't over-rev during the burnout which can blow the motor or ruin the clutch before they actually make the run. Nitro cars don't need much throttle to do the burnout.

  • I love the look of this car! It looks kinda like the surfers FED that raced in the 60's but a hell of alot faster!

  • It might have been a Chevy but it didn't look like a small block...

  • Best sounding engine on you tube.

  • Where is the wheeliebar??

  • how long is it? 180?

  • Quick launch.

  • Awesome! Does that beastie run Nitro or straight Gas? I'm not a drag-racing fan, I just love engines and anything that has one=). I really, really need to see one of these races in person. I've heard people describe Top Fuel races; sounds like a religious expirience to me! I remember reading somewhere that the exhaust on a Top Fuel dragster puts out several 1,000lbs of downforce when at full throttle(!) What is the guy doing to the engine at 1:35? Looks like he's pulling pins, or something.

  • The guy in the pic is my brother and he's adjusting the idle.The engine is a small block Chevy with AJ billet heads it runs on 90 to 100% nitro we have more videos under young guns top fuel.

    Thanks

  • That kind of downforce would bend the headers. I'm sure they produce some downforce, but it's likely so weak as to be negligible.

  • Well, I know it's Wikipedia, but it says "At top engine speed...the open headers produce about 800-1000 pounds-force...of downforce. " Which is about 100lbs per pipe. Seems as if good headers could take that. Besides, I'm not sure if jet thrust works the same as actual weight on an object, since it's a Newtonian-physics thing. It might. But, yeah, several 1000lbs is too high. In any case, you accelerate that much air in a direction at a very high speed, it'll give you a good amount of thrust.

  • I'm not sure how much preasure is on the pipes all I know is that we crack and split the headers almost every run and only get about 50 runs on the headers before they have to be replaced

  • Well, it's not pressure, per se; the faster a fluid (like air) moves, the less pressure it has. It never made sense to me, but if it keeps a 747 in the air, I'll buy it. I'd guess that it's the intense EGT's that split them, along with the downforce. I'm sure an engine putting out that many horses has EGT's in the "ridiculous" ranges. Now that I think about it, that must be the reason that they don't use turbos. You split the headers every run, but they last 50 runs? Do you weld them, or what?

  • We weld the headers right at the track after so many heat cycles the metal fails.

  • That car has a "cackle" tone. So it's nitro I would say. You would love going to an event with nitro cars... the sound, the smell. It's VERY cool. The pin he may be pulling could be a throttle stop that prevents the car from over revving during the burnout.

  • Ohhh yeah !! That was too cool ! Thanks imp808 for posting this sweet video. As johnny says, it takes balls of steel to drive these front engine hotrods these days. Back in the day it took a huge set to pilot them down the track, but since Big Daddy figured out how to make the rear engine lash up work, most went that way. It's a blast to see the few who still have the sack to heard a front engine digger to the finish line. Cudos to them all !!

  • that's what gassers used to be. :D

  • That's not a small block you can tell from the header spacing

  • Not sure who's heads Jimmi was using at this time, but I know he uses Alan Johnson stuff now..I've seen them. I can assure you it IS a small block.

  • i agree.

  • who would thumbs down that! its clearly a big block!

  • Do you homework, Allen Johnson heads don't make it a big block!

  • YOU DONT HAVE A CLUE, i KNOW THE MAN THAT BUILT IT, REST ASSURED ITS A SB CHEVY

  • It's a dead give away it's a big block ... look at the exhaust tubes .. clearly big block cylinder heads.

  • A Big block Chevy has 7 bolts for the valve cover these heads have 8.This is an Iron Eagle sbc with Alan Johnson symmetrical port heads it is not a big block Chevy.

    Owner/Jimi Young

  • @younggunsdragster who cares, it's still not a hemi.

  • @Polybun lol!

  • You people that think this is too dangerous are the reason were all going down the tubes! kids playgrounds are so safe kiids don't realize how NOT to get hurt. They just expect they never can. I'm so sick of things that were once edgy and cool being made safe and harmless. Soon we'll have no backbones at all!

  • @DGMurphy41 agreed.

  • @DGMurphy41 this dragster is probably safer than a kids playground

  • I thought they stopped using front engine drags. they're too dangerous

  • funny cars....

  • you gotta have balls to drive a front engine dragster

  • They run Nostalgia events.. they are much safer than they were in the 60s-70s

  • I grew up @ NEDway in NH when those cars were the norm, but THAT has got 2b the best pass I've seen from a mouse motored FE AA/FD. VERY Impressive!!!

  • That was a "perfect" run in the left lane. Straight and true, quarter mile without any engine bog, tire smoke.

  • holy cow, that is freakin' awesome !! our small block f.e.d. (carburetor) goes 8.40@ 165..

    your driver must have balls bigger than church bells !!

    awesome

    tricky

    (morley performance)

  • and it spun nice car

  • Only two words can describe that video;

    BAD ASS

  • bad ass run for a front engine fueler

  • do u havce a deist dragster mask

  • Dunno if I believe that is sbc tho

  • Front engine dragsters forever

  • Kick Ass..... that little block has ajpe heads on it.... again congrats Jimmy... Mike Taylor

  • Badass rail,,but needs bigger slicks.

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  • MAN THATS TIGHT, AWSOME VIDEO.

  • That's not a small block.

  • LORDY!!, that was awesome, I've been looking to build a drag car and I'm onna build one like that!

  • Hope you got have the "Bucks" it takes to put

    one like that...together.

  • Great run, great video,thanks

  • does that have sb2.2 heads on it?

  • that is the fucken baddest video on you tube period open faced helmet breether mask " now ilegal" nitro front engine dragster all the rest suck .

  • what does that run of of nitro or alcohol?

  • Thats "pop".......Nitro.

  • nice and clean pass Jimmy, Hope all are this way for you.

    TOMMY

  • Congrats on the 5 sec pass! I remember Young/you messing around with a vintage piece of pipe you painted dark emerald green I believe and a injected alcohol setup with a little pop a while back. I was parked a few trailers down to you at Martin Michigan and I was helping the Telstar crew last weekend. Congrats again...

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