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A note about automotive acceleration...
Colt Super
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Got this via email from a friend.
Doug
>A lesson in acceleration but first some useful information:
>
> 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
> 1.5 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.
>
> Nitro methane 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 half way, the engine is dieseling from compression
> plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1400 degrees F. The
> engine can only be shut down after cutting the fuel flow.
>
> If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned
nitro
> builds up in the affected cylinder 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 mph 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. The top speed record is 333.00 mph as measured
> over the last 66' of the run.
>
> Putting all of this into perspective:
>
> You are driving the average $140,000 Lingenfelter twin-turbo
> Corvette Z06. More than a mile up the road, a Top Fuel
> dragster is staged and ready to launch down a measured
> quarter-mile as you pass. You have the advantage of a flying
> start. You run the Vette up through the gears and blast across
> the starting line and past the dragster at an honest 200 mph.
> The "tree" goes green for both of you at that moment. The
> dragster launches and starts after you. You keep your foot
> down, but you hear a
brutal whine that sears your eardrums,
> and within three seconds, the dragster catches you and
> beats you to the finish line, a quarter-mile from where you
> just passed him. From a standing start, the dragster spotted
> you 200 mph and not only caught you but nearly blasted
> you off the road when he passed you within a mere 1320 feet.
>
> That, my friends, is acceleration!
attributed to Motor Trend
* edited to add attribution
Doug
>A lesson in acceleration but first some useful information:
>
> 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
> 1.5 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.
>
> Nitro methane 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 half way, the engine is dieseling from compression
> plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1400 degrees F. The
> engine can only be shut down after cutting the fuel flow.
>
> If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned
nitro
> builds up in the affected cylinder 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 mph 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. The top speed record is 333.00 mph as measured
> over the last 66' of the run.
>
> Putting all of this into perspective:
>
> You are driving the average $140,000 Lingenfelter twin-turbo
> Corvette Z06. More than a mile up the road, a Top Fuel
> dragster is staged and ready to launch down a measured
> quarter-mile as you pass. You have the advantage of a flying
> start. You run the Vette up through the gears and blast across
> the starting line and past the dragster at an honest 200 mph.
> The "tree" goes green for both of you at that moment. The
> dragster launches and starts after you. You keep your foot
> down, but you hear a
brutal whine that sears your eardrums,
> and within three seconds, the dragster catches you and
> beats you to the finish line, a quarter-mile from where you
> just passed him. From a standing start, the dragster spotted
> you 200 mph and not only caught you but nearly blasted
> you off the road when he passed you within a mere 1320 feet.
>
> That, my friends, is acceleration!
attributed to Motor Trend
* edited to add attribution
Comments
My suggestion is for everyone to attend at least one NHRA national event. Once there you will be hooked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTmM3jut05Q
It's the scent of the NITRO, that really does it to me ..[:p]
The "Winter Nationals, in Gainesville was allways good too.
Citrus Nats. are right here in Palm Be[:D]ach Gardens..
ABout time to check the schedual....
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Thanks to all friends .
Interesting.
Doug