@falaqdad15 Who knows? Amazing run..... and as for the guitar comment, i've owned and played many many instruments and regardless of technology Leo Fender and Gibson nailed it all 50 years ago. No matter what Asia does, they won't feel and play like a US made instrument.
Have you had the opportunity to play an Elitist Les Paul? They have near custom shop quality for less than the price of a LP Studio. Sadly Gibson realized they were loosing sales of their highly profitable Nashville made instrument to the Japanese made Elitist and pulled the plug on their production. The Elistist editions of the ES335 and SG Reissue were also great instruments.
@markdlowe Actually Yamaha make fantastic guitars, along with drum kits, bass guitars, keyboards and many other musical instruments. They made some of the best guitars in the 70's. Almost everything they make from bikes to instruments is pretty good.
@mubpfc No doubt, I play a Yam Z sax and wouldn't trade it for anything. Just the in general US builds great guitars. That's not to say many from Asia are not very good, they are. Korean made Laklands, Tokyo Sadowskys are awesome and so on.
@djlivingfire 4.420 is still the quickest 1/4 mile pass for any piston/rotary powered vehicle, the quickest speed ever reached was 337mph. Since they changed to racing to 1000ft, these records no longer stand, to my knowledge anyway.
@68SSCAM Thanks for the info. I haven't followed top fuel too closely since way back when they only made about 6000HP. I agree that shortening the run (to minimize top speed, I assume) wasn't necessarily the best solution, but it was surely the cheapest. What's next, 1/8 mile only? Yeah the 1/4 mile is a classic standard and should stay, there are surely other ways to improve safety. It's still a really sick amazing sport though.
@tomtosser7 No, reading the description won't give you the answer. I think this record was beaten the same year - taken to 335 mph - now it's just over 337 as noted above.
@gcmc2 In the title I wrote world's "quickest" past, which means time only and it is 4.420 seconds. The "fastest" pass is 337.58 mph by Schumacher in 2005.
The quickest passes were made in the rocket cars. The deaf Texan stuntwoman Kitty O'neill did a 3.22 pass at over 400 mph. I'm not aware of anyone going faster. Way back when, a medical scientist insisted that the human body couldn't cope with anyhting fatser than I think about a 7.5 second pass. Folk who drove rocket dragsters at around 3.5 secs & under had blood coming from their ears & noses - even their eyes & more southerly orifices ! Maybe they were getting close to the human limit.
@gcmc2 I don't think the blood thing is true, but driver's eye sight was damaged due to the negative g-force when parachutes were deployed.
Some of those passes were on salt lake though and not on drag strips, so I don't count them since it isn't on a "drag strip." Sammy Miller recorded the fastest pass on a drag strip, but I am only considering vehicles powered by piston or rotary engines here.
@68SSCAM " I don't think the blood thing is true " Well it was pretty well known. It was 40 years ago of course but you can take my word for it. O'neill did several passes on drag strips ( before the NHRA nobbled the rocket cars ) and recorded her fastest speed on one. Her fastest et was on the mohave, not the salt flats. The question I was replying to was the guy who asked about the highest recorded speed & I just included the true outright drag racing performances as a matter of interest.
@t1000eg at full throttle the fuel pump pumps the fuel through at 64 gpm roughly. broken down to a 1/4 mile thats about 4.25 gallons in 4 seconds. so they get about 17 gallons per mile haha
Burn ratio: Gas is 10 parts oxygen to 1 part fuel...alcohol is 6 parts oxy. to 1 part fuel.....and nitromethane 1 part oxy to 1 part fuel....hence you can burn 10 times more nitro over gasoline. fuel pump cap. gpm and supercharger cfm are the biggest limiting factor in nitro-engines.
@Bangembeats904 Better do some more research dude, Top fuel dragsters are quicker to 150 mph than any jet fighter. Beyond that the fighter has the advantage, but not by much. TF dragsters are hitting 330+ mph in under 4.5 seconds. Any way you look at it, that's quick!!!
@Bangembeats904 I didn't say "faster" either. I said "quicker" exceleration is what produces G force and a TF dragster initially produces more G force than any known vehicle or aircraft. At start a TF dragster is close to producing 8 Gs. Do a google search on this subject. The topic is well documented. Nevertheless a TFD is damn quick as well as a fighter jet. Take care.
man id love to do this... i know this is off subject but im kinda of a redneck anyways i would love to put one of these engines on a truck haha ill be the best truck at the trucknite events lol but yea i will never be able to get the money
@point2view dude if they used 700 or 814ci engines they would either kill the driver with such g's or become planes, but it would be cool a top fuel car to have 814ci engine that would be sick
@point2view not prostock, you are thingk pro mod, or ihra. It's 500CID for a few reasons. First off, because as it stands now, with only 500cid, they can't stop in time. They don't even run a full quarter mile anymore. They only run 1000ft because the speeds are just so high you can't stop before the end of the track. (Well you could, but when don garlits tried that, he detached both retinas.)
Nitro does detonate and the cars are started on methanol. If you shock it sufficiently it explodes without a source of heat. In this case the "fuel" portion of nitromethane is a fairly heavy hydrocarbon chain that contains alot of energy but is somewhat 'lazy.' The oxygen content is the exciting part allowing close to one to one mixtures. Initially the cars rely on the 88amps per virtually hydrolocked cylinder to initiate detonation, but 'diesel' most of the run. The plugs are quickly gone
@eddington1000 nitro doesn't detonate in a a top-fuel engine. It burns, like any other fuel, there is just much, much more of it, as it's high oxygen content removes the need for much atmospheric oxygen for proper combustion. Nitromethane is not "shocked" by the compression in a nitro engine, it is heated to it's ignition point (with the help of those sacraficial spark plugs). True "detonation" of nitromethane would probably require a high-velocity primary explosive.
@pwND001 lol, it just takes a pair of huge ones! They handle the G's just like a pilot handles a Jets G's, With practice and repitition. I've talked to several top fuel drivers about that very thing and they said that they are pretty much used to it. It's almost like a walk in the park once you've done it so many times. I've never been that fast, but I have hit 185mph in the 1/4 and that's freaking nuts, so I can't even begin to imagine going up over 300mph.
Hard to believe the blower belt came off that thing just before the finish line. I think every other pass he made that day was in the low-mid 330 mph range.
@PukkPukk That's the reason China will surpass the USA, you guys invented the guitar and now your companies palm them of to china to build cheap, just like everything else
@68SSCAM What about India Passing China what about that, Indian people have more college graduates than any other country. If Americans would start buying american products like cars. I see wayy to many asian cars fuck Honda and fuck Hyundai if u drive one ur a bitch.
@68SSCAM China will surpass the US because it has 1.5 billion people. If 2 heads is better then 1 then certainly 5 heads is better than 1. Even when China's economy is the same size as the US they will have 1/5 the standard of living of the US. Quite literally the average income of all of China will be below the poverty line of the US and this is after they reach equal size to the US which as of right now they are 3 times smaller.
@68SSCAM It sucks I know, but think about it China is the one that's losing this one. We get all of their undervalued crap for mere dollars, while they work all day on it for a simple bowl of rice. We're the boss and they're working for us
@corvette4554 Supercharged 500ci Hemi engines running on Nitromethane. There's obviously more to it than that but that is what they basically are, the fuel is what provides most of the power, the fuel pump delivers about 1 and a half gallons of nitro per second at full throttle into all eight cylinders and the twin magnetos is what helps burn the fuel with each plug producing about 44amps, about the same of an arc welder. This fuel doesn't burn like normal fuel, nitro explodes in the cylinders.
@68SSCAM If the nitro truly detonated in the cylinders, the engines would explode instantly upon starting. Nitromethane has a high oxygen content, which is why they can pump in close to as much nitro as they do air. Heat from the spark plug begins a process by which the molecule breaks down, then uses the oxygen content to deflagrate with a huge amount of energy released in the form of heat. Detonation of nitromethane would require a high-energy primary explosive, not a super-spark plug.
@highvoltagefeathers they don't explode on start up because the fuel mixture is much more tame, when the cars are finished the burnout and almost staged they turn on the second fuel pump and then they have the desired mixture and amount of fuel that they need. Before a run they will start the car on methanol or turn the motor a few times to clear the cylinders of any nitro in case it does explode upon start up. We don't need your technical explanation either, I was trying to explain it simply.
@68SSCAM They start up on alcohol, never any nitro. A good example of what happens if there's any nitro in the engine when it's cranked over is Scott Weis' dragster big boomer a few years ago when they hit the starter and there was a small amount of nitro inside the blower. You always see the crew installing the head studs by hand too, not with air tools, because rapid compression of a little nitro in the hole is all it takes to make a boom.
@68SSCAM my point though is that the deflagration of nitromethane inside a top-fuel engine is not detonation, it doesn't technically "explode". The heat breaks the oxygen from the nitro, then burns the mixture, just like in any other engine. The only advantage is that it doesn't need nearly as much atmospheric oxygen (which is still shoved in with a blower XP ), therefore more fuel can be added and burned per combustion cycle, and much more power can be made.
@tac94540 but it would appear that edington1000 and 68scam aren't "most people" (clearly experts) and are interested in technicalities, which include a few points I would like to correct them on.
@highvoltagefeathers Some one that knows - thank you - though I think you intimidated the lessers!!lol
....how much of the actual engine horse power gets reabsorbed by the blower?? I mean how much power do the pistons and rods see? - I'd reckon near half of the power produced drives the blower yeah??
@highvoltagefeathers Ok - I know that on a GM Truck engine like a 75 series or 92 series big ass old two stroke diesel - the blower eats about half of what goes through the crank, and I have no idea if that is relevent.
I do know that when I was playing with high nitro methanol engines[glow plug type] we had to use all kinds of crazy additives just to make the nitro burn faster - more compression would work untill it blew the head off!!!
@Warblade118 Yes, but how it is burned, how much you can burn and what the motor can do with it determines how much power you make. If you put the same fuel in your everyday car it wont make 7000 horsepower, the engine has to be built to handle it and be able to convert it to energy the car can use. The Magnetos, the Supercharger and the type of cylinder heads for example are very important for the type of fuel used. Without them you wouldn't make near as much power.
@68SSCAM What can you say about a sport where you HOPE the fuel explodes, because if it doesn't, it only gets worse! If it doesn't explode at all, you hydralic and the engine is blown to hell. If it detonates in the super charger th engine is blown to hell. If the wheels spin, the engine is blown to hell. Then there are the times the engine just grenades for no reason at all. Even if the engine isn't blown to hell, it needs an overhaul. Compleatly bonkers.
@68SSCAM not hardley 500ci running on nitro....it takes 900hp just to be able to turn the supercharger.....these are 8000hp about 150,000 to build one and roughly 50000 a day to race do the math alot....and they use 25 gallons of nitro during burnout staging and there pass fuel pumps out 75 gallons a minute......and if fuel were to explode in the engine nitro would blow it up there ignite at the right time otherwise how the hell would the car run causing the crank and C rods boucing all over
@lilballa8189 Yes - legendary as they are, hemis are outdated. They started remaking & tuning them, but they're done even in racing that requires a stock block. They can't even be tuned to compete with other big blocks. The problem is fundamental. Advances in metallurgy over the years has seen pistons become incredibly light. Because of the size of the piston due to the high domed piston design the true hemi needs, they just can't be made near as light.
@gcmc2 hemis are not outdated.... and hemis are not about the block, they are all about heads in which hemi heads are superior to a normal big block head. Increase in rotating mass in a motor for the hemi is offset by increased flow. Sure you compare a stock hemi head to an advanced aftermarket head you'll get closer flow numbers
@ihateyoujeffy Hemis still work in drag racing because the engines are brought up to a high speed before takeoff & the revs are kept up, but they are still something of a compromise these days even in drag racing. Hemis are known to breathe great but for the reason I outlind, they now don't have the edge on other production big blocks. The piston's just too heavy because of its dome shape. Higher reciprocal weight reduces the speed, power, acceleration & reliability of the engine.
@pwND001 they max out at about 5.7G, and humans without a g suit or method to restrict blood flow will black out at around 4.5G. It usually takes about 30 seconds to black out though. So they are in no way close to not being able to handle it. The average G force over the run is under 3G. Humans can easily handle 3G for 5 seconds.
@brettandtyler1 The nitro cars only run to 1000 feet now in America, not the full 1320 feet. So you can't compare the times of today to the times seen here, and besides 311mph is slower than 328mph, and the fastest spped ever recorded in the 1/4 mile by a Top Fuel car is (I think) 337mph.
@Refman33 If you are talking about the Finals at Pomona in 06, Schumacher ran a 4.428 second pass, which was backed up to be the national record at the time. Although that still stands as the national record, the quickest pass ever in Top Fuel and the quickest pass ever in a piston powered vehicle over the 1/4 mile is this run, with a 4.420, which is quicker by 8 thousandths of a second, but wasn't backed up to be the national record.
@ozbloke74 i just found a link that has one of Sammy's mates saying that they tested a modified setup and ran 2.87 @ 398..his family and friends were there. still, that's "only" an average of 4.6G... hard to believe he went 9G. momentarily perhaps.
think u will find sammy miller holds the quarter mile record, this was done i think late 1980s in a rocket car. Good vision on you tube if u punch in his name
@cyberhendrix yer but during flight and only because our planes weigh more and manoeuver very fast giving the effect of G forces, though fighter planes pull just about the same in lateral G's its the guys in Red bull that are the real stars pulling around 9-12 most of the time
@666Tormentor666 He may have gone as quick if it stayed down, but theres a larger chance he wouldnt have. First of all he may have cut a better light making it look he was keeping up with the other car, and to have kept the front down they would have needed either less clutch or more weight which would result in a slower E/T, so I doubt whether he would have run a low 4.4 sec pass.
If you ever see one in real life, it is shoking. Videos nor TV even compares to the sound. If you notice on tv, when they interview them at the end of the track, they are usually breathing hard. Its because they can breathe from the g's going down the track.
theyre buckled so tight. i dont think you can just jump in and take it. have to build up.if youve never saw them in person it makes you appreciate what they do. every run is truly life or death.
i think that 1/4 would be from a rolling or flying start not a stand still 1/4 there is noooo where near enough traction on a salt lake or the tech back then to do them passes superchargers where for big slow trucks back in 1977 they wouldnt have dreamed of nitro breathing 4second cars
QTFT. The car Kitty O'Neil drove back in 1977 didn't need any traction to accelerate, it was a hydrogen peroxide powered dragster. Just shut up if you don't have a clue.
The fastest recorded quarter mile time in history was a woman with a 3.225 @ 396 she actually had a pass at 450 mph but went to fast for timers to pick it up back in 1977
The fastest time ever recorded in a 1/4 mile was in 1977, by Kitty O'Niel, and it was a 3.225 @ 396. All I was saying was that it wasn't the fastest time ever recorded on an actual race track, this was done on salt flats.
I said timers not radar two different things. they use 2 different devices one speed one time. well the fastest drag time would be 3.583 @386 but your post is accurate becuase those cars are not top fuel. just to let people know that there are cars (use that term loosely) that go faster
Yes it would be the 3.58 at 386 by Sammy Miller, but his car was banned in the US and he had to go to Santa Pod to do it. There is a lot of debate on what the fastest quater mile time on record is so lets just say this is the worlds fastest piston driven quater mile time!
Tony Schumacher, let alone any top fuel driver has never run 4.28 seconds in a 1/4 mile. I think you meant when he ran a 4.428 at the finals in Pomona.
This Video - youtube [ . ] com/watch?v=E7Qnoz_HyK8
four point 420
suttonsplash14 4 months ago
@bstal247 that doesnt explain how i am a nerd...but ok you can stick to that
tmakidd0703 5 months ago
@bstal247 how am i a nerd?? that doesnt make sense
tmakidd0703 5 months ago
@bstal247 haha really?? it is funny when you car passes people it says...I"M GAY!!!!!!!!
tmakidd0703 5 months ago
god only knows how the US vs China debate started on a drag racing video...
danielschoeffler 5 months ago 32
Ahh...the good 'ol days...(1320ft)
CrisR964 5 months ago
Outdated but still good watching.
franknblunt 5 months ago
god damn
destruction12100 6 months ago
are you kidding ......? i run faster
killuall1234 6 months ago
@falaqdad15 The driver is a real music nut in his spare time
markdlowe 6 months ago
@falaqdad15 Who knows? Amazing run..... and as for the guitar comment, i've owned and played many many instruments and regardless of technology Leo Fender and Gibson nailed it all 50 years ago. No matter what Asia does, they won't feel and play like a US made instrument.
markdlowe 6 months ago
@markdlowe what about the japanese instrument? not just guitar, im talking about any music instrument
mubpfc 6 months ago
@mubpfc Yep, Yamaha make awesome saxes for example, just not so much guitars
markdlowe 6 months ago
@markdlowe
Have you had the opportunity to play an Elitist Les Paul? They have near custom shop quality for less than the price of a LP Studio. Sadly Gibson realized they were loosing sales of their highly profitable Nashville made instrument to the Japanese made Elitist and pulled the plug on their production. The Elistist editions of the ES335 and SG Reissue were also great instruments.
HelimanZ06 6 months ago
@markdlowe Actually Yamaha make fantastic guitars, along with drum kits, bass guitars, keyboards and many other musical instruments. They made some of the best guitars in the 70's. Almost everything they make from bikes to instruments is pretty good.
68SSCAM 5 months ago
@68SSCAM I think we should get back on topic now...
68SSCAM 5 months ago
@mubpfc No doubt, I play a Yam Z sax and wouldn't trade it for anything. Just the in general US builds great guitars. That's not to say many from Asia are not very good, they are. Korean made Laklands, Tokyo Sadowskys are awesome and so on.
markdlowe 6 months ago
imagine the time in the left lane if the wheels wouldnt of came up!
xPPRTxPONTIACx 6 months ago
Is this still the record? What's the highest speed reached in a pass to date?
djlivingfire 7 months ago
@djlivingfire 4.420 is still the quickest 1/4 mile pass for any piston/rotary powered vehicle, the quickest speed ever reached was 337mph. Since they changed to racing to 1000ft, these records no longer stand, to my knowledge anyway.
68SSCAM 7 months ago
@68SSCAM When and why did they change to 1000ft? It couldn't be to make the math easier.
Snoep76239 6 months ago
@Snoep76239 They changed for safety concerns about four years ago, which I think isn't the right solution.
68SSCAM 6 months ago
@68SSCAM Thanks for the info. I haven't followed top fuel too closely since way back when they only made about 6000HP. I agree that shortening the run (to minimize top speed, I assume) wasn't necessarily the best solution, but it was surely the cheapest. What's next, 1/8 mile only? Yeah the 1/4 mile is a classic standard and should stay, there are surely other ways to improve safety. It's still a really sick amazing sport though.
Snoep76239 6 months ago
@Snoep76239 One of the best sports on the planet I think, the only one where you can feel the cars go down the track
68SSCAM 6 months ago
@68SSCAM Yeah I agree 100%, and they do it on sand tracks too! What's next, top fuel on ice with studded tires? Now THAT would be insane...
Snoep76239 6 months ago
i think Brandon would have went faster if he didnt start flying lmao
ARodDrummerFan 7 months ago
worlds quickest pass, can someone tell me how fast .time & speed
tomtosser7 7 months ago
@tomtosser7 Read the description
68SSCAM 7 months ago
@tomtosser7 No, reading the description won't give you the answer. I think this record was beaten the same year - taken to 335 mph - now it's just over 337 as noted above.
gcmc2 7 months ago
@gcmc2 In the title I wrote world's "quickest" past, which means time only and it is 4.420 seconds. The "fastest" pass is 337.58 mph by Schumacher in 2005.
68SSCAM 7 months ago
The quickest passes were made in the rocket cars. The deaf Texan stuntwoman Kitty O'neill did a 3.22 pass at over 400 mph. I'm not aware of anyone going faster. Way back when, a medical scientist insisted that the human body couldn't cope with anyhting fatser than I think about a 7.5 second pass. Folk who drove rocket dragsters at around 3.5 secs & under had blood coming from their ears & noses - even their eyes & more southerly orifices ! Maybe they were getting close to the human limit.
gcmc2 7 months ago
@gcmc2 I don't think the blood thing is true, but driver's eye sight was damaged due to the negative g-force when parachutes were deployed.
Some of those passes were on salt lake though and not on drag strips, so I don't count them since it isn't on a "drag strip." Sammy Miller recorded the fastest pass on a drag strip, but I am only considering vehicles powered by piston or rotary engines here.
68SSCAM 7 months ago
@68SSCAM " I don't think the blood thing is true " Well it was pretty well known. It was 40 years ago of course but you can take my word for it. O'neill did several passes on drag strips ( before the NHRA nobbled the rocket cars ) and recorded her fastest speed on one. Her fastest et was on the mohave, not the salt flats. The question I was replying to was the guy who asked about the highest recorded speed & I just included the true outright drag racing performances as a matter of interest.
gcmc2 7 months ago
cool this thing does 10m per gallon
t1000eg 9 months ago
@t1000eg at full throttle the fuel pump pumps the fuel through at 64 gpm roughly. broken down to a 1/4 mile thats about 4.25 gallons in 4 seconds. so they get about 17 gallons per mile haha
SS496BBC 9 months ago
@SS496BBC 17 gallons per mile....they only run 1/4 mile.. so the fuel ratios are set much higher anyway...
t1000eg 9 months ago
@t1000eg that is true. but i was just doin the math. i wasnt bein a smartass or anything
SS496BBC 9 months ago
@SS496BBC you cool bro.. :-)
t1000eg 9 months ago
@pwND001 Just like in a fighter jet, a g-suit
djBAMF1997 9 months ago
V-tec kicked in.
hectord27 10 months ago
Burn ratio: Gas is 10 parts oxygen to 1 part fuel...alcohol is 6 parts oxy. to 1 part fuel.....and nitromethane 1 part oxy to 1 part fuel....hence you can burn 10 times more nitro over gasoline. fuel pump cap. gpm and supercharger cfm are the biggest limiting factor in nitro-engines.
Wildkkat1 10 months ago
@pwND001 Because thats nothing compared to fighter jets that go from 100 to 500 and 3 seconds
Bangembeats904 11 months ago
@Bangembeats904 Apples and Oranges dude! We're talkin' about drag racing not jet fghters. I guess the space shuttle is next on your list. FAIL!
wildmanwillie 11 months ago
@wildmanwillie Last time i check G forces is what I was talking about and there are more G's that way than in a Top Fuel
Bangembeats904 10 months ago
@Bangembeats904 Better do some more research dude, Top fuel dragsters are quicker to 150 mph than any jet fighter. Beyond that the fighter has the advantage, but not by much. TF dragsters are hitting 330+ mph in under 4.5 seconds. Any way you look at it, that's quick!!!
wildmanwillie 10 months ago
@wildmanwillie I never said anything about what is faster. A fight jet pull more G's Thats what im talking about, Read my comment before you reply.
Bangembeats904 10 months ago
@Bangembeats904 I didn't say "faster" either. I said "quicker" exceleration is what produces G force and a TF dragster initially produces more G force than any known vehicle or aircraft. At start a TF dragster is close to producing 8 Gs. Do a google search on this subject. The topic is well documented. Nevertheless a TFD is damn quick as well as a fighter jet. Take care.
wildmanwillie 10 months ago
@wildmanwillie thats nothing my evo goes from 0-60mph in 4......oh wait did you say 330mph?
YaYoAr 9 months ago
man id love to do this... i know this is off subject but im kinda of a redneck anyways i would love to put one of these engines on a truck haha ill be the best truck at the trucknite events lol but yea i will never be able to get the money
LeeLee6006 11 months ago
@pwND001 that's nothing compared to those pilots who race in the red bull air races man those are ridiculous
CIFCA 11 months ago
in mother russia street race you
banditkingjing2 1 year ago
Not 7 g's
SICKJ0KER 1 year ago
No, these are limited to 500ci too
SICKJ0KER 1 year ago
Why does NHRA only limit 500 CI engine size in the Nitro Class? Why not up to 700 or 814ci Like in Pro Stock?
point2view 1 year ago
@point2view Pro stock is only 500ci as well, your thinking if IHRA or Pro Mod or something
68SSCAM 1 year ago
@68SSCAM pro mod at santa pod (euro) has engine displacements max at 900 CID :D
PetrolDemon 10 months ago
@point2view dude if they used 700 or 814ci engines they would either kill the driver with such g's or become planes, but it would be cool a top fuel car to have 814ci engine that would be sick
RONNIEH33713 11 months ago
@point2view
It's because you touch yourself.
klimacs 11 months ago
@point2view not prostock, you are thingk pro mod, or ihra. It's 500CID for a few reasons. First off, because as it stands now, with only 500cid, they can't stop in time. They don't even run a full quarter mile anymore. They only run 1000ft because the speeds are just so high you can't stop before the end of the track. (Well you could, but when don garlits tried that, he detached both retinas.)
Polybun 8 months ago
Now let's see the Bugatti Veyron do that :)
scumbag1975 1 year ago
what was the pass time
legoconnor 1 year ago
@pwND001 only men...only men...
matthewrockslol22 1 year ago
Top fuel are about 8 to 10 Gs accelerating and 6to 8 when the shoots pop .
dhiquobgnaloo 1 year ago
@bigmrclean LOL!
pwND001 1 year ago
@pwND001 lol...I'm serious!
bigmrclean 1 year ago
@pwND001 Cuz they're bad ass! :D
AmericanThunder 1 year ago
How many G's of acceleration is a Top Fuel drag racer put under?
Lucariooooo 1 year ago
@Lucariooooo About 4 or 5
68SSCAM 1 year ago
@68SSCAM a formula 1 cars pulls 5 under brakin and cornering.. surely these are more like 8g's
steflotti105 1 year ago
@68SSCAM It would have to be more right?
mdr279 1 year ago
@Lucariooooo acceleration is one thing when the parshoots come out its like 7 g,s
aussi3212 1 year ago
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matjencharli 1 year ago
@pwND001 they arent human
Ed062178 1 year ago 5
SICKEST MOTORSPORT EVER!!!!
elpidiovaldez4ever 1 year ago
Nitro does detonate and the cars are started on methanol. If you shock it sufficiently it explodes without a source of heat. In this case the "fuel" portion of nitromethane is a fairly heavy hydrocarbon chain that contains alot of energy but is somewhat 'lazy.' The oxygen content is the exciting part allowing close to one to one mixtures. Initially the cars rely on the 88amps per virtually hydrolocked cylinder to initiate detonation, but 'diesel' most of the run. The plugs are quickly gone
eddington1000 1 year ago
@eddington1000 nitro doesn't detonate in a a top-fuel engine. It burns, like any other fuel, there is just much, much more of it, as it's high oxygen content removes the need for much atmospheric oxygen for proper combustion. Nitromethane is not "shocked" by the compression in a nitro engine, it is heated to it's ignition point (with the help of those sacraficial spark plugs). True "detonation" of nitromethane would probably require a high-velocity primary explosive.
highvoltagefeathers 1 year ago
lets see a civic try to out run that.
ruthlessone3k 1 year ago
to the argument at the top: they start the cars on alcohol then to nitro
Wambonater 1 year ago
516 kmh ,wow ..
SIMOPARAS 1 year ago
4.42 with the engine dying at 1000feet
wow
nashvilleraidersfan 1 year ago
how fast was the pass?
minitruckin1988 1 year ago
@minitruckin1988 328.22MPH
jayork1347 1 year ago
@pwND001 lol, it just takes a pair of huge ones! They handle the G's just like a pilot handles a Jets G's, With practice and repitition. I've talked to several top fuel drivers about that very thing and they said that they are pretty much used to it. It's almost like a walk in the park once you've done it so many times. I've never been that fast, but I have hit 185mph in the 1/4 and that's freaking nuts, so I can't even begin to imagine going up over 300mph.
bcbbcb1 1 year ago
@bcbbcb1 The G force at that speed is only at 3g's no big deal that about what the shuttle pilots feel at launch.
sledback1 1 year ago
@sledback1 Thats untrue. a shuttle launch is about 8g's at one point while on lauch the dragster pulls about 5 out the gate
shadowhunter45s 1 year ago
Hard to believe the blower belt came off that thing just before the finish line. I think every other pass he made that day was in the low-mid 330 mph range.
grumpybb 1 year ago
This is another reason why China will never surpass the US. Oh yeah they also did not invent the guitar.
PukkPukk 1 year ago
@PukkPukk Love it !!!!
doowaditti 1 year ago
@PukkPukk That's the reason China will surpass the USA, you guys invented the guitar and now your companies palm them of to china to build cheap, just like everything else
68SSCAM 11 months ago 17
@68SSCAM Bit off topic there
68SSCAM 11 months ago
@68SSCAM actually, China has surpassed the US in Economy and Energy Consumption in 2010.
azndirtbag 7 months ago
@68SSCAM What about India Passing China what about that, Indian people have more college graduates than any other country. If Americans would start buying american products like cars. I see wayy to many asian cars fuck Honda and fuck Hyundai if u drive one ur a bitch.
harorider95 7 months ago
@68SSCAM China will surpass the US because it has 1.5 billion people. If 2 heads is better then 1 then certainly 5 heads is better than 1. Even when China's economy is the same size as the US they will have 1/5 the standard of living of the US. Quite literally the average income of all of China will be below the poverty line of the US and this is after they reach equal size to the US which as of right now they are 3 times smaller.
thebestsumoeva 6 months ago
@68SSCAM It sucks I know, but think about it China is the one that's losing this one. We get all of their undervalued crap for mere dollars, while they work all day on it for a simple bowl of rice. We're the boss and they're working for us
msbaugh440 5 months ago
@68SSCAM I can't deny that!
MangoHombre 5 months ago
@PukkPukk lol. you clearly arent too smart. without china's money we would've sake a few decades ago.
cfezuwm 9 months ago
what engines do they use ???????
corvette4554 1 year ago
@corvette4554 Supercharged 500ci Hemi engines running on Nitromethane. There's obviously more to it than that but that is what they basically are, the fuel is what provides most of the power, the fuel pump delivers about 1 and a half gallons of nitro per second at full throttle into all eight cylinders and the twin magnetos is what helps burn the fuel with each plug producing about 44amps, about the same of an arc welder. This fuel doesn't burn like normal fuel, nitro explodes in the cylinders.
68SSCAM 1 year ago 14
@68SSCAM woooow
thanks man
corvette4554 1 year ago
@68SSCAM If the nitro truly detonated in the cylinders, the engines would explode instantly upon starting. Nitromethane has a high oxygen content, which is why they can pump in close to as much nitro as they do air. Heat from the spark plug begins a process by which the molecule breaks down, then uses the oxygen content to deflagrate with a huge amount of energy released in the form of heat. Detonation of nitromethane would require a high-energy primary explosive, not a super-spark plug.
highvoltagefeathers 1 year ago
@highvoltagefeathers they don't explode on start up because the fuel mixture is much more tame, when the cars are finished the burnout and almost staged they turn on the second fuel pump and then they have the desired mixture and amount of fuel that they need. Before a run they will start the car on methanol or turn the motor a few times to clear the cylinders of any nitro in case it does explode upon start up. We don't need your technical explanation either, I was trying to explain it simply.
68SSCAM 1 year ago
@68SSCAM They start up on alcohol, never any nitro. A good example of what happens if there's any nitro in the engine when it's cranked over is Scott Weis' dragster big boomer a few years ago when they hit the starter and there was a small amount of nitro inside the blower. You always see the crew installing the head studs by hand too, not with air tools, because rapid compression of a little nitro in the hole is all it takes to make a boom.
grumpybb 1 year ago
@68SSCAM my point though is that the deflagration of nitromethane inside a top-fuel engine is not detonation, it doesn't technically "explode". The heat breaks the oxygen from the nitro, then burns the mixture, just like in any other engine. The only advantage is that it doesn't need nearly as much atmospheric oxygen (which is still shoved in with a blower XP ), therefore more fuel can be added and burned per combustion cycle, and much more power can be made.
highvoltagefeathers 1 year ago
@highvoltagefeathers to the average person this means "explosion".
tac94540 1 year ago
@tac94540 but it would appear that edington1000 and 68scam aren't "most people" (clearly experts) and are interested in technicalities, which include a few points I would like to correct them on.
highvoltagefeathers 1 year ago
@highvoltagefeathers understood
tac94540 1 year ago
@highvoltagefeathers Some one that knows - thank you - though I think you intimidated the lessers!!lol
tomview1 1 year ago
@highvoltagefeathers Some one that knows - thank you - though I think you intimidated the lessers!!lol
....how much of the actual engine horse power gets reabsorbed by the blower?? I mean how much power do the pistons and rods see? - I'd reckon near half of the power produced drives the blower yeah??
tomview1 1 year ago
@tomview1 I'm no expert, but I'd say its just a fraction of what the engine produces...
highvoltagefeathers 1 year ago
@highvoltagefeathers Ok - I know that on a GM Truck engine like a 75 series or 92 series big ass old two stroke diesel - the blower eats about half of what goes through the crank, and I have no idea if that is relevent.
I do know that when I was playing with high nitro methanol engines[glow plug type] we had to use all kinds of crazy additives just to make the nitro burn faster - more compression would work untill it blew the head off!!!
And yes it is hard to put out a nitro fire.
tomview1 1 year ago
@tomview1 I know the blower takes about 500+ horsepower to turn
68SSCAM 1 year ago
@68SSCAM lol I'm pretty sure the fuel is what provides all of the power on any engine.
Warblade118 1 year ago
@Warblade118 Yes, but how it is burned, how much you can burn and what the motor can do with it determines how much power you make. If you put the same fuel in your everyday car it wont make 7000 horsepower, the engine has to be built to handle it and be able to convert it to energy the car can use. The Magnetos, the Supercharger and the type of cylinder heads for example are very important for the type of fuel used. Without them you wouldn't make near as much power.
68SSCAM 1 year ago
@68SSCAM I didn't need a lesson, I was just being a smart ass, ya know? :)
Warblade118 1 year ago
@68SSCAM Last time I checked Gas explodes also? I could be wrong....
Bangembeats904 10 months ago
@68SSCAM damn... why do I complain of my car 30 mpg consumption? lol
mrxxx 9 months ago
@68SSCAM What can you say about a sport where you HOPE the fuel explodes, because if it doesn't, it only gets worse! If it doesn't explode at all, you hydralic and the engine is blown to hell. If it detonates in the super charger th engine is blown to hell. If the wheels spin, the engine is blown to hell. Then there are the times the engine just grenades for no reason at all. Even if the engine isn't blown to hell, it needs an overhaul. Compleatly bonkers.
Polybun 8 months ago
@68SSCAM not hardley 500ci running on nitro....it takes 900hp just to be able to turn the supercharger.....these are 8000hp about 150,000 to build one and roughly 50000 a day to race do the math alot....and they use 25 gallons of nitro during burnout staging and there pass fuel pumps out 75 gallons a minute......and if fuel were to explode in the engine nitro would blow it up there ignite at the right time otherwise how the hell would the car run causing the crank and C rods boucing all over
lilballa8189 7 months ago
@lilballa8189 Yes - legendary as they are, hemis are outdated. They started remaking & tuning them, but they're done even in racing that requires a stock block. They can't even be tuned to compete with other big blocks. The problem is fundamental. Advances in metallurgy over the years has seen pistons become incredibly light. Because of the size of the piston due to the high domed piston design the true hemi needs, they just can't be made near as light.
gcmc2 7 months ago
@gcmc2 hemis are not outdated.... and hemis are not about the block, they are all about heads in which hemi heads are superior to a normal big block head. Increase in rotating mass in a motor for the hemi is offset by increased flow. Sure you compare a stock hemi head to an advanced aftermarket head you'll get closer flow numbers
ihateyoujeffy 6 months ago
@ihateyoujeffy Hemis still work in drag racing because the engines are brought up to a high speed before takeoff & the revs are kept up, but they are still something of a compromise these days even in drag racing. Hemis are known to breathe great but for the reason I outlind, they now don't have the edge on other production big blocks. The piston's just too heavy because of its dome shape. Higher reciprocal weight reduces the speed, power, acceleration & reliability of the engine.
gcmc2 6 months ago
@pwND001 they max out at about 5.7G, and humans without a g suit or method to restrict blood flow will black out at around 4.5G. It usually takes about 30 seconds to black out though. So they are in no way close to not being able to handle it. The average G force over the run is under 3G. Humans can easily handle 3G for 5 seconds.
rcaddict72 1 year ago
god damnit we talkj about thousands of horses here....LOL
xXCREEKSTARXx 1 year ago
i went to the drag races yesterday they broke that recourd he went 311 mph
brettandtyler1 1 year ago
@brettandtyler1 The nitro cars only run to 1000 feet now in America, not the full 1320 feet. So you can't compare the times of today to the times seen here, and besides 311mph is slower than 328mph, and the fastest spped ever recorded in the 1/4 mile by a Top Fuel car is (I think) 337mph.
68SSCAM 1 year ago
FAIL. That was broken in 2006. FAIL
CamaroSS2236 1 year ago
@CamaroSS2236 When was it broken in '06?
68SSCAM 1 year ago
@68SSCAM 11/12/06/ponoma CA schumacher
Refman33 1 year ago
@Refman33 If you are talking about the Finals at Pomona in 06, Schumacher ran a 4.428 second pass, which was backed up to be the national record at the time. Although that still stands as the national record, the quickest pass ever in Top Fuel and the quickest pass ever in a piston powered vehicle over the 1/4 mile is this run, with a 4.420, which is quicker by 8 thousandths of a second, but wasn't backed up to be the national record.
68SSCAM 1 year ago
sammy ran 3.54 at 386mph over the quarter mile and pulled between 9 and 10g, not taking anything away from topfuel and a fkn orsm pass.
ozbloke74 1 year ago
@ozbloke74 i just found a link that has one of Sammy's mates saying that they tested a modified setup and ran 2.87 @ 398..his family and friends were there. still, that's "only" an average of 4.6G... hard to believe he went 9G. momentarily perhaps.
rcaddict72 1 year ago
@rcaddict72 I think that was 3.87 not 2.87
68SSCAM 1 year ago
@68SSCAM ..nope, they were definitely talking 2.87 because the point was that he had smashed his 3.54.
rcaddict72 1 year ago
think u will find sammy miller holds the quarter mile record, this was done i think late 1980s in a rocket car. Good vision on you tube if u punch in his name
ozbloke74 1 year ago
@pwND001....lol from what i hear these guys dont di it too long cuz of how hard it is on thier bodies
vertedge 2 years ago
@pwND001 fighter pilots pull more g's
cyberhendrix 2 years ago
@cyberhendrix yer but during flight and only because our planes weigh more and manoeuver very fast giving the effect of G forces, though fighter planes pull just about the same in lateral G's its the guys in Red bull that are the real stars pulling around 9-12 most of the time
poo123head 1 year ago
The guy on the other lane would have been as fast as him without that wheelie :(
666Tormentor666 2 years ago
@666Tormentor666 He may have gone as quick if it stayed down, but theres a larger chance he wouldnt have. First of all he may have cut a better light making it look he was keeping up with the other car, and to have kept the front down they would have needed either less clutch or more weight which would result in a slower E/T, so I doubt whether he would have run a low 4.4 sec pass.
68SSCAM 2 years ago
If you ever see one in real life, it is shoking. Videos nor TV even compares to the sound. If you notice on tv, when they interview them at the end of the track, they are usually breathing hard. Its because they can breathe from the g's going down the track.
harlon2u 2 years ago
theyre buckled so tight. i dont think you can just jump in and take it. have to build up.if youve never saw them in person it makes you appreciate what they do. every run is truly life or death.
subterranean75 2 years ago 4
i think that 1/4 would be from a rolling or flying start not a stand still 1/4 there is noooo where near enough traction on a salt lake or the tech back then to do them passes superchargers where for big slow trucks back in 1977 they wouldnt have dreamed of nitro breathing 4second cars
AceOxide 2 years ago
QTFT. The car Kitty O'Neil drove back in 1977 didn't need any traction to accelerate, it was a hydrogen peroxide powered dragster. Just shut up if you don't have a clue.
aschenputtel40 2 years ago 2
WHat about this paticualr vdeo...how fast?-mph
Wayneman117 2 years ago
It's in the description
68SSCAM 2 years ago
The fastest recorded quarter mile time in history was a woman with a 3.225 @ 396 she actually had a pass at 450 mph but went to fast for timers to pick it up back in 1977
DVcustomZ 2 years ago
That was on salt flats, I'm talking on proper 1/4 mile track. And if the timers didn't pick up the speed how do you know it was 450mph?
68SSCAM 2 years ago
what are you on about? read what you put and have a little think?????
akingscott 2 years ago
???????????????????????
DVcustomZ 2 years ago
no way...especialy back then.get a life
phoenix1925 2 years ago
Its always better to look up information to verify if its true then make a comment that way you dont sound like a jackass like you do now
DVcustomZ 2 years ago
The fastest time ever recorded in a 1/4 mile was in 1977, by Kitty O'Niel, and it was a 3.225 @ 396. All I was saying was that it wasn't the fastest time ever recorded on an actual race track, this was done on salt flats.
68SSCAM 2 years ago
@68SSCAM this just says fastest top fuel pass
cody227 1 year ago
I think that might also be the fastest nut on record
DVcustomZ 2 years ago
I said timers not radar two different things. they use 2 different devices one speed one time. well the fastest drag time would be 3.583 @386 but your post is accurate becuase those cars are not top fuel. just to let people know that there are cars (use that term loosely) that go faster
DVcustomZ 2 years ago
Yes it would be the 3.58 at 386 by Sammy Miller, but his car was banned in the US and he had to go to Santa Pod to do it. There is a lot of debate on what the fastest quater mile time on record is so lets just say this is the worlds fastest piston driven quater mile time!
68SSCAM 2 years ago
Done
DVcustomZ 2 years ago
that other dude was actually faster than him until he tried to reach the moon
FourSidedPiston 2 years ago
too bad he is not going to be racing full time this year but GO Larry Dixon !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jrdragracer927 3 years ago
i don't think he had anything (runs) to back it up so the record is still tony's!
9130mosin 3 years ago
Correct. There was no backup for this, so Kalitta doesn't officially hold the record, however it's still the quickest pass to date.
Luxornv 3 years ago
I remember this brandon was real real sick this week but still did awesome.
dozbubba1 3 years ago
What is the ET and top speed? (Jeeze!)
Bobpork 3 years ago
Read the description (Jeeze!), a 4.420 @ 328.22 MPH.
68SSCAM 3 years ago
That doesn't match up to Tony Shumacher's time of 4.280, but i forgot where, when, and how fast he was going.
strikerz09 2 years ago
Tony Schumacher, let alone any top fuel driver has never run 4.28 seconds in a 1/4 mile. I think you meant when he ran a 4.428 at the finals in Pomona.
This Video - youtube [ . ] com/watch?v=E7Qnoz_HyK8
68SSCAM 2 years ago
What is the E.T.?
Bobpork 3 years ago
thats amazing
dajudge1969 3 years ago