Sorry, Off Topic!

[theramblingscot]

Oh man, this is so off topic, but I thought it was frickin hilarious and I needed to share this with the world

okay...

my teacher lost the exam! HAHA!!!

ohhh jeez. this is...hilarious. so now she's trying to blame it on one of the other teachers and we're all just sitting here waiting. naturally, i got on BS, of course.

haha yes well...lets see if i can make this somewhat soccer related. no...sorry for the off topic-ness.

go fcd!

[Balonpie]

We all deserve a break every now and then!

[Northside Rovers]

Classic.

[theramblingscot]

:( she found it, but i'm done now. oh well!

[burning247]

*smacks head into hands*

Amy, you are forbiden from posting on these boards again :rolleyes:

[3rd Degree]

One Top Fuel dragster 500 cubic inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than the first 4 rows at the NASCAR Daytona 500.

Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 1 1/2 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 Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to drive the dragster 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 one 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 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 US $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 Shumacher). 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 driving the average $140,000 Lingenfelter "twin-turbo" powered Corvette Z06. 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 'Vette hard 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 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.

[Drum'r Boy]

Buzz, was that your NASCAR version of a BS impersonation?

[3rd Degree]

actually mine is real.

[texas arsenal]

I find it easier to label my posts "on topic", which are very few.

[Scipio Gothicus]

Boring. I would rather read about Skater's exam than dragsters.

Lindy, Buzz was talking about dragsters. NASCAR is totally different, and much more exciting. Maybe if dragsters had to run a course, and go in fro pit stops, they would be interesting. As it is, no strategy, just go fast. Boring.

But I have always wondeded what kind of fluid they do the burnout in.

The major sponsor of NASCAR is Nextel, which is going to be bought out. Oh, the next cup winner will be in the 21 car. Open wheel driver Sarah Fisher has a ride in the Busch Series.

Cheers!
Sir Drinxalot

[Drum'r Boy]

actually mine is real.

Of that I have no doubt - and I don't doubt that some of BS's diatribes have some reality to them.

But wow with the detail....

Nascar, dragster - details details. It is all greek auto racing to me.

[Chamo]

The current Top Fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.441 seconds for the quarter mile (10/05/03 Tony Shumacher).

Is Tony related to Michael?

[Zé Bill]

I got your "stoichiometric" right here:

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=UAYrsEOxqYc

[Burn Fan]

actually mine is real.

Yes, but have you eaten any Haggas lately??

[Rex Kramer]

Ack! Zombie thread! Where's my cricket bat?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/blog/wp-content/uploads/shaun-of-the-dead-trio.jpg

[boomersooner027]

*shakes head*

[Zé Bill]

The banishment of this thread to NSR reeks of unequal treatment of BS FCD board posters:

If you are a person well-known to a moderator (theramblingscot,3rd Degree::Northside Rovers) your threads and your Friday lunch menu posts can remain on the main board for YEARS.

If you are not known to a moderator (Ze Bill::Rex Kramer) your "on-topic" reply to an interesting post (3rd Degree's fun facts about dragsters), which had remained on the main board for four years, will be banished in six hours.

I have been thinking about 3rd Degree's "dragsters" post for four years. I remembered how to spell "stoichiometric" by which I "forum searched" to find the post. It is December, not co-incidentally to my view, the same month of the MLS off-season during which theramblingscot started the thread with theramblingscot's entertaining and 2tru slice of life.

I request that this thread be restored to its rightful place on the main board.

or else maybe those opposed should petition BigSoccer to erase the archives.

4 years is like 35,000 hours that the thread enjoyed main board status. 6 is the number of hours that my post in said thread enjoyed main board status. no fair

not kidding and kidding at the same time

AND FURTHERMORE!

Rex, When you used the word "zombie", were you referring to the
"White Zombie" electric dragster featured in the YouTube?