Why Dragster Engines EXPLODE
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Top Fuel Dragsters are the fastest accelerating cars on earth. They pump out about 11,000 horsepower and as much torque as 65 F1 cars.
That’s enough to produce the same explosive force as a small earthquake.
So really it’s unsurprising that sometimes they go bang. And in a big way.
The Engines are pushed so hard that at full throttle they’re always just on the verge of splitting the engine block and creating one very large fireball.
And well, they tend to make a habit of it.
So what’s going on here? What makes them create so much power? And why does that tend to involve a big bang?
Let’s get into it.
Top Fuel Dragsters literally live life a quarter-mile at a time. Everything about them is engineered to cover 1000 feet as absurdly fast as possible.
It’s no secret that to get anything to move that fast, it’s going to need a LOT of power.
But surprisingly they use the same engine as a 1970s Cadillac Eldorado?
Yep. It’s an 8.2 Litre Supercharged Chrysler Hemi V8.
They don’t put those sorts of engines in family cars here in Europe.
Anyway, it’s design has remained pretty much unchanged since the early 1950s, with ONE Intake Valve, and ONE exhaust valve.
I think my Golf is quicker than that Chevvy
But really, yes the 500 cubic inch block is the same - almost nothing else is.
They’re dialled up to eleven.
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Aren't these engines mad!? Imagine being in that car when it goes pop!
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Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis.
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Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon.
Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu gana taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. ''Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt'' dep oylodu arstan.
Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu.#垃圾
I was aware of it before but I think it's a really cool fact that there's enough heat and pressure in the cylinder for the fuel/air mixture to ignite under compression alone like a diesel as mentioned at 7:11.
I did learn something new about the fuel being pumped in at such an extreme rate that there's a risk of hydrostatic lock.
But we put them in Ford Pintos, Honda minivans, and a teslas here in the United States. Someone put a literal jet engine in a minivan lol.
I imagine i would need a change of underwear afterwards.
Great video! The blocks are based on old Mopar architecture, not anything from Cadillac/GM. Also, the blocks are billet aluminum not billet steel.
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I was going to say that .
@@DB.scale.models Me too :-)
How often do these blocks get modernized? It's difficult to imagine you can squeeze anything more out of them
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The thing that really puts the power of dragsters into perspective for me is the fuel pumps. When professionals talk about normal track cars or even drag cars and they discuss the parts specific to the cars like the fuel system and you find out that a usual measurement that is standard is gallons (or liters) per hour. But when you step up to top fuel dragsters their fuel pumps tend to run in gallons per minute. Around 64 gallons per minute. You have to see a fuel pump demo to really understand just how much fuel is being used. It makes you realize how much power is being made in such a short amount of time. Absolutely insane.
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Wouldnt it make more sense to use gallons per second? Given that each run is just a few seconds
More precisely 5 gallons per 1000 feet
@@Noreceipts400 Not necessarily. This would be the only situation where that rating would make any sense but the companies that make these type of products aren't limited to only dragsters. The rating for fuel pumps is meant to be an industry recognized national standard that can be identified anywhere. Similar to how things are rated in PSI or MPH or other industries like HVAC with ratings in BTUs. The dragster industry could rate these type of pumps as 1 gallon per second but there aren't any other industries who would be metering the devices output like that. Other uses for these types of pumps is typically at an industrial level and they are running 1,000s of gallons per hour that they need to meter. There are far more industrial needs for products in the 100-1,000 gallon per minute area like natural gas and oil where they deal in massive volumes of fluids that they meter over the course of hours, not seconds.
There's a video that shows the pump running, it's an absurd amount of fuel coming through, and then it goes from tickover to full throttle and it looks like a fucking fire hose.
If you’re close up to the strip when one of these goes for a run it can be hard to breathe as it goes past. You feel it in your entire body. Not only do these cars make so much power but they can also spin up to 10,000 rpm. Truly an amazing experience.
Any engine can go 10000RPM.....once😂😂
@@IWantYourNachos say that to f1 cars and superbikes 🤣🤣
Yeah my bike on the track lives at 9000-13000 rpm, but it also only has a 57 mm stroke, with a 77mm piston, for 1000cc.
These things are 500 cubic inch, 8200cc, 106mm bore, 114mm stroke!
yup, when i was at Santa pod, we saw the top fuel and its insane. It's like an earthquake drives past. 500M further, car alarms went off...
@@Verdeniza its alot easier to make a small engine rev then a 8.2 litre..
just imagine...
You are driving the average 1000hp twin-turbo Corvette/Camaro/Mustang/GTR or a Tesla. 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 your car 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, only 1000 feet 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 1000 foot long strip of concrete.
I've never thought of this analogy, but I have thought about how the heck do you convince a piece of metal and carbon to go 1000 feet in 3.4 seconds and over 300mph? Mind numbing.
There's one of those seat swap videos where a trophy truck and funny car driver compare rides. The truck will run around 10 sec 1/4 mile, so he gets a six second head start. Then the funny car just blows by at the last second like he's sitting still.
FYI, You may want to do a quick edit. Cadillac indeed used 500 cid engines from 1970 to 76, but these dragsters use designs based of Chrysler Hemi engines, in particular, second generation from the 60s, a very different design from a different company. Those Hemis have been dramatically updated with billet blocks, strengthening, new alloys, and lots of other tricks.
And those Cadillacs were front wheel drive
@@stephen_crumleyIndeed. Though I will say that super charged 120L WR16 could make 8,400 HP two 18,480 HP with Nitro
I went to a drag race once in Charlotte. I had no idea what it'd be like and it was very different to what I kind of expected. First of all they let us stand right next to the 4-lane drag strip, right by the fence. The first race was a full 4-lane qualification. I had 40.000hp fly be me a few feet away. I was "blown away" by the sound and the forces of it... nothing can prepare you for that experience. You feel all 40.000 of those horsepowers rumbling in your lungs and shake your whole body. It is physically impossible not to be afraid of it and it took me about 30 mins to get somewhat used to the experience. It was wild! I'd recommend everyone to try this at least once! Also, these dragsters have no gearbox - they are direct drive and use a cone-shaped clutch to gradually allow all the power to the wheels. They let us walk around the paddock before the races started (something that is expensive and exclusive in F1) and ask questions to the mechanics working on the cars couple feet away. The whole experience was awesome.
It must be 40 years since I was last at Santa Pod raceway in the UK, and stood by the start line. I can still remember 'feeling' the sound as well as hearing it. It felt like a pressure hammering on my chest. ISTR that the fastest times back then were in the seven seconds, so today's sub four second passes would have bee un imaginable back then.
love the drag strip. im usually one of the idiots standing IN the burnout box.
Well said! Zmax is my home track too. The clutches actually slip at first so you hear the engines actually slow down while the car speeds up. Then around halfway, they stop slipping and the engines can then rev back up. It shakes my shop and calls me to the track like a Siren Song🥶😁
It was explained to me that the density of the fuel and air mixture is so high during the compression stroke that the mixture is actually considered a plasma right before combustion. And there's enough current in the ignition system to use it as a welder.
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Joonie: "Cooler"
Yoongi: "Butter
Asi con toy y sus mañas no se la lease que escriba bien mamon hay nomas pa ra reirse un rato y no estar triste y estresado.por la vida dura que se vive hoy .
Köz karaş: ''Taŋ kaldım''
Erinder: ''Sezimdüü''
Jılmayuu: ''Tattuuraak''
Dene: ''Muzdak''
Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis.
Aç köz arstan
Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon.
Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu gana taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. ''Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt'' dep oylodu arstan.
Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu.#垃圾
And on top of that, they dump so much fuel they are on the edge of hydro locking. These are unbelievable
Every spark plug on earth creates small amounts of plasma when it fires. Thats what a spark is.
@@MrIsaacE he's saying the air fuel mixture is plasma not that there is plasma present in the engine
@@zerobomb0 That is the main thing; there is no "plasma", except across the spark plug gap, of course.
I never really 'got' drag racing until I understood more about engines making power. Then I learnt about traction and aero. Now I am dumbfounded every time I see a rail hit the loud pedal. Feats of engineering and physics. Simply amazing. Great vid!
You should be the one pressing that go fast pedal. Its a rush
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Small mistake: Top fuel cars only run for 1,000 feet not a quarter mile which is 1320 feet. They were going too fast at the quarter mile mark, so the cut it down the 320 feet for safety. You can figure out the conversion to meters, I haven't had my coffee yet to do the conversation 😂. Still a good video 👍
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tricks I do not know
Megan: "Hotter"
Hopi: "Sweeter"
Joonie: "Cooler"
Yoongi: "Butter
So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today.
Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım ''
Erinder: '' Sezimdüü ''
Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak ''
Dene: '' Muzdak ''
Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis.
Aç köz arstan
Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon.
Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan.
Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾
They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising
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Megan: "Hotter"
Hopi: "Sweeter"
Joonie: "Cooler"
Yoongi: "Butter
Asi con toy y sus mañas no se la lease que escriba bien mamon hay nomas pa ra reirse un rato y no estar triste y estresado.por la vida dura que se vive hoy .
Köz karaş: ''Taŋ kaldım''
Erinder: ''Sezimdüü''
Jılmayuu: ''Tattuuraak''
Dene: ''Muzdak''
Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis.
Aç köz arstan
Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon.
Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu gana taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. ''Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt'' dep oylodu arstan.
Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu.#垃圾
if 1320 feet is about 400m i guess 1000 feet is about 300m
@@keisuketakahasi4584 1000 feet = 304.8 meters
@3:50 he actually says 1000 feet.
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I live about 7 miles away (as the crow flies) from Englishtown. Back when they held events there, I could hear the three second bursts of the loud pedal from where I am. Insanity!
Ive been in a two seater dragster before. The g forces are unexplainable. My eyes got bloodshot because of it but it was an experience of a lifetime!
My uncle knew former Top Fuel champion Dick Lahie and I got to meet him. Lahaie actually had problems with his retinas becoming detached from the deceleration of the chute opening. Think about how insane the g forces have to be for your *retinas* to have that much inertia.
Scott Kalitta was knocked unconscious when his engine exploded and therefore not having any control over deploying his chutes.
What killed him was hitting the very last cement wall barrier while still going well over 200mph after his car blew thru the initial safety barriers at the end of the track.
When his supercharger blew, it knocked the body up & Scott couldn't reach the chutes, he was alive@impact
Englishtown never had adequate run off...all fuel cars ran to 1000 feet from then on
@@graysonwalker that's not how it was told to me by first hand accounts when the accident happened but alright
Seeing them in person is like nothing in the world. They shake the ground when they start. They shake your fillings out when they launch. A truly incredible spectacle.
If UV never seen one/HEARD/felt!!!! Two of these go down the strip put it on ur bucket list, unbelievable!!!
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tricks I do not know
Megan: "Hotter"
Hopi: "Sweeter"
Joonie: "Cooler"
Yoongi: "Butter
So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today.
Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım ''
Erinder: '' Sezimdüü ''
Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak ''
Dene: '' Muzdak ''
Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis.
Aç köz arstan
Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon.
Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan.
Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾
They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising
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Would love to see some in action sometime
What a thrill they must be to see in person
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Megan: "Hotter"
Hopi: "Sweeter"
Joonie: "Cooler"
Yoongi: "Butter
Asi con toy y sus mañas no se la lease que escriba bien mamon hay nomas pa ra reirse un rato y no estar triste y estresado.por la vida dura que se vive hoy .
Köz karaş: ''Taŋ kaldım''
Erinder: ''Sezimdüü''
Jılmayuu: ''Tattuuraak''
Dene: ''Muzdak''
Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis.
Aç köz arstan
Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon.
Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu gana taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. ''Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt'' dep oylodu arstan.
Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu.#垃圾
I went to santa pod as a kid so my memory is a bit fuzzy but I remember being able to feel the noise In your chest 😂😂
Next to a Top Fuel track you can SEE and FEEL the actual sound. Yea, you can see the sound! It feels like someone is punching you in the chest.
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Megan: "Hotter"
Hopi: "Sweeter"
Joonie: "Cooler"
Yoongi: "Butter
Asi con toy y sus mañas no se la lease que escriba bien mamon hay nomas pa ra reirse un rato y no estar triste y estresado.por la vida dura que se vive hoy .
Köz karaş: ''Taŋ kaldım''
Erinder: ''Sezimdüü''
Jılmayuu: ''Tattuuraak''
Dene: ''Muzdak''
Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis.
Aç köz arstan
Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon.
Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu gana taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. ''Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt'' dep oylodu arstan.
Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu.#垃圾
Repeatedly!
I found that after awhile that feeling got unpleasant for me personally. It's like my body kept screaming "HOLY SHIT WE'RE IN DANGER!" every time the cars went down the track.
Another thing is hydrolock as these engines use so much fuel, gallons per minute rating, they're on the verge of hydrolocking if the fuel pump timing isn't perfect.
Fuel pump timing means nothing, the fuel pump is there to deliver fuel to over 50 different nozzles- not injectors- the nozzles spray fuel in and is in no way timed
If you haven't seen these in person, Top fuel dragsters and Funny Cars, they are really something else. You can literally feel the engine's exhaust pulses in your chest from nearly 1/4 mile away. Absolute monsters.
"That's the force of a small earthquake"
Geeee, I wonder why these engines start to explode :D
Cool piece! Have you been to a race with the top fuel/funny car's? It's an experience that can not be explained to any degree equal to being there and "feeling" it. It's an assault on all the body's senses. The noise, the air pressure waves the amazing speed in the blink of an eye, it's a sensory overload for 4 seconds.
it will be mind blowing when we see the mathematical potential of electric drag racing in the future but you can never duplicate the science of internal combustion.
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I had the opportunity, before security made me move, to watch a top fuel run from behind the cars. Amazing sense of acceleration vs. watching them heading towards you.
The Dr. Wienerdog made me laugh 😂
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Megan: "Hotter"
Hopi: "Sweeter"
Joonie: "Cooler"
Yoongi: "Butter
Asi con toy y sus mañas no se la lease que escriba bien mamon hay nomas pa ra reirse un rato y no estar triste y estresado.por la vida dura que se vive hoy .
Köz karaş: ''Taŋ kaldım''
Erinder: ''Sezimdüü''
Jılmayuu: ''Tattuuraak''
Dene: ''Muzdak''
Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis.
Aç köz arstan
Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon.
Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu gana taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. ''Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt'' dep oylodu arstan.
Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu.#垃圾
I've been looking for this comment. That was funny
I’m so glad I live near a track that has top fuel, these things are some of the most exciting cars you can ever watch.
The best part of this video "top fuel dragsters literally live a quarter mile at a time " that was poetry 👌 👏 😂😂
6:39 so on top of being a very powerful mechanical engine, just the waste energy in the exhaust is enough to double as a sufficiently strong literal rocket engine to be useful.
A lot of actual rocket engines do the same thing but backwards - the actual thrust is generated by carefully spitting the exhaust out the tail-end as directly as possible, but some of it is fed through a turbine to provide power for other parts of the vehicle. Typically, this is a high-flow fuel/oxygen pump (basically a turbocharger), though there are often also electrical generators, hydraulic pumps, and other similar systems. This consumes some energy from the fuel, but since the fuel is the most dense energy source in the rocket, it's generally more efficient than just having another power source lying around.
The Big & ugly is just one type of injector (not actually used in modern TF and FC). The Big & Ugly was a name created by Enderle (who offer bug, bird and buzzard catchers); the carbon injectors are generally referred to as 3 hole or 4 hole - high rise for Top Fuel and low level for Funny Car.
It's a shame that the engines are seen as poor from a durability point of view, especially given the cylinder pressures they see relative to current F1 engines. Anywho, we'll continue to race these niche one trick ponies as long as we're allowed to.
Actually, Scott Kalittas death changed the fuel cars from the 1/4 mile to 1000...because so many tracks do not have adequate shut down area...the other change was the chute deployment if the supercharger blows...those were the only 2 changes
Driver 61 : Why do dragsters explode?
Hammond : Following a crash
Clarkson : POWER!
May : Physics
I LOVE this kind of technical videos. Really good job💪🏻
Every motorsports fan needs to see these things in person at least once. You can see feel and hear the power. It’s truly incredible
6:19
The exhaust also generates down force 🤯🤯🤯
Thanks for so much detail.
Love your video! The only thing I can see to my understanding, is that it wasn't quite right when you were talking about the flames comming out of the exaust. That is not unspent fuel. Because of the flame front temperature, it is disassociateing the hydrogen from the water vapor in the air, and it is hydrogen you see burning.
Great Video! Top Fuel Dragsters are unbelievable feats of engineering and we have a huge amount of respect for those who build them & pilot them 👏
Great video! Keep the content coming.
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tricks I do not know
Megan: "Hotter"
Hopi: "Sweeter"
Joonie: "Cooler"
Yoongi: "Butter
So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today.
Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım ''
Erinder: '' Sezimdüü ''
Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak ''
Dene: '' Muzdak ''
Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis.
Aç köz arstan
Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon.
Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan.
Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾
They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising
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Photographing these from trackside is a complete assault on the senses. It's not just the sound but also shockwaves from the combustion process and the fuel burning your eyes and nose. The first time I did it I was surprised I got sharp images as I felt I was vibrating so much as they went past. Add to the fact you only have a small concrete barrier to duck behind when things go pear shaped, it's high adrenaline to shoot
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Stomp on that loud pedal!
Man, Top Fuel is bad ass. That changeover cackle is absolutely the song of my people.
Literal trap doors on the fuel tanks, otherwise the tank will pull a vaccum and run lean.
.....because the fuel supply line is 2" diameter, and the fuel pump is epic.
So amazing
That little Spinal Tap reference though 😄
"...or the fuses in the plugs." That's the quickest way to tell someone you're British without telling them you're British (I reckon)...
“Nuts & Bolts”…. Great segue to the ad for Manscape! 😂😂
Scott Kalitta didn't die becuaae of the engine explosion, it was because of a too short run off area at Englishtown Raceway in NJ. I grew up in NJ and this track has a residential road literally RIGHT at the end of the runoff area, with a 3 ft concrete wall separating the 2. Dumb idea, but residents didn't wanna move the road way back when dragsters were much slower.
Thanks for the video mate
𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 ❶❽ 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐥𝐝
*SEXY-NUDEGIRLS.HOST*
tricks I do not know
Megan: "Hotter"
Hopi: "Sweeter"
Joonie: "Cooler"
Yoongi: "Butter
So with toy and his tricks, do not read it to him that he writes well mamon there are only to laugh for a while and not be sad and stressed because of the hard life that is lived today.
Köz karaş: '' Taŋ kaldım ''
Erinder: '' Sezimdüü ''
Jılmayuu: '' Tattuuraak ''
Dene: '' Muzdak ''
Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis.
Aç köz arstan
Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon.
Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu wins taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. '' Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt '' dep oylodu arstan.
Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu. # 垃圾
They are one of the best concerts, you can not go but just seeing them from the screen, I know it was surprising
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1,320 feet or and just over 400 meters. 1,000 feet was a little too much rounding for me 🤣
Also, I don't think a Cadillac ever used a Chrysler Hemi.
several years ago, they shortened the top fuel and funny car run length to 1000ft. decision was made to slow down their top speeds.
No, but at least one Mopar features Tesla motors.
@@mustang351c4 And yet, they're faster now. They do have an extra 320 feet to figure out how to stop if there's a problem, though.
The interspersed gifs are great! I laughed my ass off at the nitromethane cow.
I would love a video on how to dragster pilots even practice. The cost of components and manpower to run these things even for a practice run must be insane and how fast these things go out, the cost per amount of time running the car is probably greater than F-1
Overall, the cars are relatively cheap (and you can literally buy the _best-of-the-best_ parts off the shelf) but consider that you do a complete rebuild after five seconds or so at full throttle. As the connecting rods are aluminum, you toss them after a certain number of runs; same with all other parts, all are "life-limited", unless they end their lives a little early on their own! Given that an F1 engine should last for about thirty hours (six or seven races, plus practice and quali), that is well over 20,000 times as long as a TF/FC engine. So using the average cost of a nitro run of nine grand USD, it would cost $180,000,000 to run as long as an F1 engine, which costs a percent of that.
Surprisingly cheap for that amount of power. Most of the main part are standardized, and also the technology are relatively simple compare to... You know, hybrid system
The fact that you called them pilots instead of drivers made me laugh a little
@@dmitri546 he probably has spanish as his first language, as we call both a pilot and a driver "piloto", we usually tend to use pilot for driver when speaking english
@@lucasdelgado8255 Portuguese actually, as there's a distinction in which someone who's driving on the road is a 'motorista' (driver) but someone's who's racing is a 'piloto' (pilot)
Cadillacs didn’t have hemi engines
Love these videos. NHRA event is very high on my must experience list one day. Either Las Vegas or the Northwest Nationals (Kent WA).
Love the content! It’s so much fun to learn about the science of racing through the lens of the driver
Thank you for a great invormational video. I grew up going to the drag races every Friday night nad all day Saturday and Sunday. I saw the change in dragsters from the engine in front of the driver to going behind the driver. I even got to see big daddy Don Garlitz driving his front engine dragster blow up burning his flame proof overalls and bringing out his brand new rear engine dragster for the next run.
Things I have always loved about Top Fuel:
1. Extremely simplified (by rule and design) from Formula 1 to keep costs down. (And keep more of the competition "on the track" instead of with whomever can afford to spend the most money on dozens of engineers and wind-tunnel testing.)
2. Actually costs more per kilometer travelled than Formula 1. :)
I'm not a huge race fan (although I do follow Formula 1), but I've heard it's absolutely incredible to see these cars in person because you can literally "feel" the sound of the engine in your chest from anywhere near the track.
Dude totally, it’s the most incredible feeling. When two of them take off the line, it’s like someone is punching you in the chest but hundreds of times a second. And I can’t even describe how loud it is, you can hear them from miles and miles away. The track is out in the middle of nowhere so that people aren’t bothered.
I am a big fan of Top Fuel. If you have never been to a meet, treat yourself and go. Nothing else compares to the experience. Not being able to see clearly during a run because your eyeballs are vibrating from the shock waves. Crazy. One other fun fact that I found once upon a time but can't seem to find again. The engines are powerhouses but don't need to live that long. The documentary I saw calculated the actual number of revolutions a TF engine makes during a pass. It was only a little over 500.
That little bar that shows how long is sponsor ad i really nice touch.
Another great engineering videos
Awesome video! I’d love to see more top fuel content
all in know is all top fuel dragsters go bang, some do it before the quarter-mile, some do it later as an engine rebuild after the quarter.
I have been volunteering with Kalitta motor sports every time they come to the track by me. Usually help with teardown of the engines after a run. So incredibly fun with the atmosphere.
The cadillac 500 c.i. V8 is a GM product, not a Chrysler Hemi btw
This sport uses so many resources
Great video!
Seeing them in person is quite amazing. I got to sit in a NHRA pro mod blower car and “wamp” aka rev it a few times. ( a Pro Mod is basically the same with a smaller blower, of course tons of other things but making thousands of hp still and in a chasse that looks more like a “real” car). It was cool and scary.
The exploding cow fart methane animation made me LOL
The clutches are pretty interesting too. Clutch management is, I am told, very important in getting the power onto the track.
Its absolutely critical. We own a nitro funny car and if u mess up the clutch the run is a failure
5:16 Fitting that you used that jet airliner. That is a plane from Kalitta Air. The founder Conrad Kalitta is a team owner in NHRA and a legend of the sport.
Que locura chabón!!!, que buen video, hay un monton de cosas q no sabia
Scott sold me some ball trimmers with dry humour and i have no regrets haha
I love your obsession with Top Fuel dragsters
Also, search CZcams about the Supercharger Dynomometer.
Wings a engine block to the rpm of a race launch, then slams a clutch together and the blower is wound out to the engine typical red line.
Apparently it is heard throughout the entire race shop.
Hoonigan and Leah Pritchett did a special including this badassery.
I had no idea that Cadillac a General Motors car used a Chrysler motor. Top fuel dragsters use purpose built blocks and heads they do not use old Cadillac motors. The amount of furl that fills the cylinders is liquid not vapour and the amount of liquid is just about enough to cause hydraulic lock you can compress vapour but not fluid. It is really worth going on line and checking out this crazy engineering from people that do know about it.
Coooool!!! These things are impressive
Yes Darrell Russell lost his life in 2004 in a top fuel dragster that is why the titanium shield is required
As an American viewer, I look outside to my 2002 Chevrolet truck with a factory 496c.i. 8.1L engine and ponder. 😂 But really though, top fuel and funny car are absolutely insane. If you ever get a chance to go to or be near one that is raced or fired up, you should! And I knew pretty much everything else, but I never thought about the exhaust pushing downforce on launch.
Yes the noise is incredible but what is truly awesome is the amount of heat coming out of the exhaust. My brother and I got up on a picnic table that had been dragged over to the fence. When a top fueler or funny car went by I thought I was going to have burns! Naturally NHRA put a stop to our fun. We were about 40 feet from the cars.
Beautiful. Top fuel dragsters are just so beautiful.
Driver61, i have a big question. How come old drivers such as keke rosberg and gilles can get away with being fast yet very aggressive. Now i totally get the overload of power and lack of grip meaning that you had to slide and manhandle the car to be fast, and i get that 70s were a different era, but still in the 80s, it had become way more technical yet keke was still fast and drove the car sideways. How do they possibly stay quick?
The hemi design is just a more efficient combustion chamber design. It does not inherently allow the use of larger valves.
Compared to having the valves on the same angle and plane(like a small block chevy or Ford wndsor head), a hemi head does allow bigger valves. A big block chevy, 385 series big block ford or Ford cleveland head for example have canted valves(not to the same extent as a mopar hemi though) partly to improve head flow, but also to allow the use of bigger valves.
As a car guy for some reason these things never captivated me. Not sure why that is. I had a HotWheel when I was a kid of a dragster but that was it. I think it might be because it's hard to relate to these cars. Like where can you actually use them outside of the drag strip? And even so that's mostly only in America lol. Nonetheless, great video and very cool cars.
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Megan: "Hotter"
Hopi: "Sweeter"
Joonie: "Cooler"
Yoongi: "Butter
Asi con toy y sus mañas no se la lease que escriba bien mamon hay nomas pa ra reirse un rato y no estar triste y estresado.por la vida dura que se vive hoy .
Köz karaş: ''Taŋ kaldım''
Erinder: ''Sezimdüü''
Jılmayuu: ''Tattuuraak''
Dene: ''Muzdak''
Jizn, kak krasivaya melodiya, tolko pesni pereputalis.
Aç köz arstan
Bul ukmuştuuday ısık kün bolçu, jana arstan abdan açka bolgon.
Uyunan çıgıp, tigi jer-jerdi izdedi. Al kiçinekey koyondu gana taba algan. Al bir az oylonboy koyondu karmadı. ''Bul koyon menin kursagımdı toyguza albayt'' dep oylodu arstan.
Arstan koyondu öltüröyün dep jatkanda, bir kiyik tigi tarapka çurkadı. Arstan aç köz bolup kaldı. Kiçine koyondu emes, çoŋ kiyikti jegen jakşı dep oylodu.#垃圾
If you have never seen one in person I would highly recommend it, there is nothing like a top fuel dragster rocketing to 300mph in 3 seconds. You can feel the exhaust and sound waves as it passes by.
@@IWantYourNachos That sounds sick af tbh. Sadly I'm a very long way from America lol
I thought NASCAR was late entering the 21st century at 2022, but oh boy... a 1970 block blew my mind
Top fuel fuel pumps pump around 125 gallons a minute, which is around 2 gallons per second. They also cap out at around 135-140 decibels, not 150.
The blower actually covers the noise of the super charger on a dragster. I was at DSR when they dynod a super charger. I had to cover my ears even standing outside the building.
Blowers and superchargers are the same thing...
This edits are getting better and better
can you reupload some of your older videos? i miss them so much especially the indycar one
Driver, my friend, you are now a youtube motorsport legend.
1.6L V6 F1 engines aren’t that far off like at all!
They usually run as low an AFR as .9-1:1. 1.7:1 is stoic for nitro.
yes. stoic for gas might be 14.7, but maximum power is achieved at 12.5. most cars, even brand new ones, run richer (12.5) under hard acceleration. its not just more powerful. its safer for the engine. lean is TERRIBLE for an engine.
@@mustang351c4 lean enough and temp drops but engine still runs.
My mate lee Huxley races the quarter mile (not a dragster) but an 8.5 ltr funny car type deal. In fact he won the championship last year, lee said he’s heard of electric powered dragsters are being tested now. Same power but much more reliable
I laughed way too hard at the 300 Mph Drift scene
The engineering on these things is crazy
@driver61 get over to the States next year and we can go hang out in the Top Fuel pits with some friends of mine ;)
I am going to agree with most of this video, but I ran an unblown nitro drag bike and the compession ratio was in the ratio of around 12.5:1, similar for cars I think, but when you use a blower or turbo, then the compression ratio must be reduced, to somewhere around 6:1 and this depends on the tuning of the engine and how fast the blower is being driven, OK?
Damn are sponsors really that hard to find??
Whoever edited it was having fun
A little over-done for my tastes. I get that people will like it, and I normally love this channel, but I found the constant cutaways and mouse-click sounds distracting when there's so much valuable info to get. Probably just me though, so carry on
The top fuel dragsters are of course scary when they explode, but in funny car the engine is in the front. When nothing blows it's blowing up in your face!
I would assume choosing the Kalitta Air 747 was not a coincidence.
Look at Chrysler 426 Hemis made from 1964-1971... not a GM Cadillac! Completely different companies... A British guy wouldn't know that so it's ok?
And most major explosions are hydrolocks or hanging the intake valve open! I worked on them and are bad @$$
To Fuel Dragsters are insane
I'm not into Top Fuel, but can appreciate the technical feats.
I'd wager that fans are not into green technologies :)
Power stroke going past 90 degrees 😯
I got to enjoy some top fuel action last weekend. Nothing can beat standing on the startline with 11,000hp either side of you as your internal organs get massaged by the noise, and tears stream down your face from the nitro fumes.
Common misconception is that the header flames are unburnt fuel. It's actually hydrogen in the air that is separated, and ignited by the heat and pressure of the exhaust gasses. Also, the only thing Cadillac has in common with a top fuel engine is the capacity. Top fuel engines are actually a 500ci version of the 60's Chrysler Hemi, which aside from allowing bigger valves, it also creates a more even burn of the air/fuel mixture due to the centrally located spark plugs. Good video otherwise.
A small point the Cadillac Eldorado did not use the Chrysler Hemi . th rest of the video was spot on .