Who Says Drag Racers Cant Turn.....

[Strip]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX8hCe7lhow&feature=related
 


This is insane....if your not a drag racer this car should have been gone, no question.

Jump to 1:30.....yeeeehaaaaw.

[moot]

 

 

.. Good thing that wing still worked.. the rear was glued, even sideways.  Is that puff from the exhaust right after he clears the other car's chute, him accelerating to make sure it's straightened out?

[DYNAMITE]

HOLY CRAP! 

[Belial]

Nice peddling

[Strip]

Good thing that wing still worked.. the rear was glued, even sideways.  Is that puff from the exhaust right after he clears the other car's chute, him accelerating to make sure it's straightened out?

    Its caused by the fuel system depressurizing and the engine shutting off. They shut the fuel down to kill engine because the ignition is not reliable. The cylinder head, valves, and piston are hot enough to keep the engine dieseling. The fuel mixture is too lean to ignite so it goes out the exhaust pipes. Even leaned out there is still a lot of fuel going through the engine.  Since they use centrifugal clutches you cant disengage the motor til the speed comes down. At those speeds you do not want any help after the finish line.

    You mentioned the rear wing and tires.....they are a marvel of tire construction. Lightweight, flexible, soft and must endure 300 mph wheel speed. At those speeds the rear wing alone produces well above 6,000 lbs of down force. So you have over 8,000 lbs on a tire that is rotating at high rpm. So high in fact they distort and grow in diameter up to 30%. On top of that they still maintain grip at low downforce/speed by planting more of the tire into the ground. The sidewall on those tires is less than .125 of an inch thick.....

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[Denholm]

Marvelous recovery. Still don't see the point of drag-racing, though.

[PFactorDave]

I'll bet that guy needed to change is under wear when he got out of the car...

[Grayeagle]

Marvelous recovery. Still don't see the point of drag-racing, though.

Because it's fun.

Next?

(and most anyone can do it instead of watch it)

-GE aka Frank

[moot]

Thx Strip.  There's a pretty good video clip of cars and a bike taking off, run at something like 30,000 fps. Should be on youtube under something like "super slo mo".

[Strip]

Because it's fun.

Next?

(and most anyone can do it instead of watch it)

-GE aka Frank

Exactly......Ive seen a 4 cylinder Cavalier rental car win a 10,000 dollar bracket race!

 

More than a few times I have seen multi-car operations with a motor-home and stacker trailers packed up, headed home after the first round.

 

[Strip]

Thx Strip.  There's a pretty good video clip of cars and a bike taking off, run at something like 30,000 fps. Should be on youtube under something like "super slo mo".

Ive watched that one earlier this morning, its pretty interesting to this gearhead.

[Shuffler]

Houston Raceway Park is actually in Baytown Texas. That is within minutes of my home.

[Grayeagle]

LOL Strip.. I useda *love* sendin the ex-Super Stock big dollar outfits home with my backyard built, daily driver Duster.
I had less in the whole car than they had spent in just their motor.. by a long ways.

The Ford dealership mustang driver lost his temper an was throwin things in his pit area and yellin at his crew after I shut him off at LACR one round, one fine day in SoCal He tried to sandbag (put a fender up on me and just run it thru) .. he didnt realize I ran within .001 of my dial in on just about every pass, all out, all the way thru the lights. He broke out by 2 thousandths stayin a fender up on me .. ROFL.

Man I loved doin 'sandbaggers'


She hooked pretty good

Then came tunnel ram and bigger tars:
..along with more cam, more gear, more converter ..


-GE aka Frank