These engines might be a little big for most Wheel Horses

[ebinmaine 67,424]

Very interesting just the same... 

 

 

https://www.enginebuildermag.com/2023/03/top-fuel-and-funny-car-engines/

 

 

 

[Pullstart 62,834]

They use their zoomies headers for downforce.  Hey, so does Putt Putt!  They average 1,375 hp per cylinder.  On an average 8 hour day’s work added up, so does Putt Putt!  They run about 15 gallons of fuel out in 1/4 mile.  If Putt Putt plowed a 1/4 mile square field, he would go through about 12.5 gallons, approximately.  
 

Putt Putt is practically a top fuel dragster.  But more efficient.

 

 

 

 

[SylvanLakeWH 25,535]

I like your math... 

 

[Pullstart 62,834]

31 minutes ago, SylvanLakeWH said:

I like your math... 

 

At some point 8 hp repeating will easily beat 1375x8 cylinders.  I’m no math whiz, but I bet it would be around the one thousand three hundred seventy sixth suck squeeze bang blow.

[squonk 41,068]

You do realize a 1/4 mile square field is a heck of a lot more area than a 1/4 mile drag run right? 

 

If Shirley Cha Cha Muldowney ran her dragster at full throttle and covered a 1/4 mile field it would take about 16 passes and use about 240 gal of nitro/alcohol mix.

 

( Also about 16 blocks, 16 cranks and 128 pistons and rods!) 

Edited April 6, 2023 by squonk

[Pullstart 62,834]

35 minutes ago, squonk said:

You do realize a 1/4 mile square field is a heck of a lot more area than a 1/4 mile drag run right? 

‘Bout 160 acres.  It might take the whole 15 gallons 

[Sailman 1,291]

Great article.

5 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

Very interesting just the same...

https://www.enginebuildermag.com/2023/03/top-fuel-and-funny-car-engines/

 

2 years ago the owners sold the drag strip here in Commerce Ga which had been home to the Southern Nationals for as long as I can remember . So many great memories.....John Force signing a piston and giving it to my son. Sarge taking him into his pit stall, such great access to the pits and drivers, insane runs on the track. All gone....

Consider this....when they were running 4 wide at Charlotte Drag Strip the horsepower on each run equaled the whole 40 car Nascar race!

[Achto 27,565]

In top fuel drag racing there is a lot of work put into an engine that only makes 900 revolutions under load before it gets torn down and rebuilt, this includes the burn out.

 

A top fuel dragster will go from 0mph to 300mph before you finish reading this sentence. 

 

If all of your equipment is paid for and your pit crew works for free, it only cost around $1200 per second to make one pass down the strip.

[953 nut 55,189]

15 hours ago, squonk said:

You do realize a 1/4 mile square field is a heck of a lot more area than a 1/4 mile drag run right? 

 

If Shirley Cha Cha Muldowney ran her dragster at full throttle and covered a 1/4 mile field it would take about 16 passes and use about 240 gal of nitro/alcohol mix.

 

( Also about 16 blocks, 16 cranks and 128 pistons and rods!) 

Did you ever see the movie about Shirley Muldowney's love of speed?  It was titled "Heart Like a Wheel".

 

 

[953 nut 55,189]

13 hours ago, Sailman said:

Consider this....when they were running 4 wide at Charlotte Drag Strip the horsepower on each run equaled the whole 40 car Nascar race!

      True, but those pit stops every quarter mile would make a 500 mile race take a few days!        

[RandyLittrell 3,877]

This is what belongs in a tractor!!

Edited April 11, 2023 by RandyLittrell