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The Definition Of Acceleration
THE DEFINITION OF ACCELERATION
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> Read this thru slowly and try to comprehend the amount of force produced for
> just under 4 seconds!
>
> There are no rockets or airplanes built by any government in the world that
> can accelerate from a standing start as fast as a Top Fuel Dragster!
>
>
>
>
> THE DEFINITION OF ACCELERATION
>
>
>
> One top fuel dragster 500 cubic inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than
> the first 4 rows of stock cars at the Daytona 500.
>
> It takes just 15/100ths of a second for all 6,000+ horsepower of an NHRA Top
> Fuel dragster engine to reach the rear wheels.
>
> 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's supercharger.
>
> With 3,000 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 (stoichiometry: methodology and technology by which
> quantities of reactants and products in chemical reactions are determined)
> 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture of nitro methane, the flame front temperature
> measures 7,050 deg 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 halfway, the
> engine is dieseling from compression, plus the glow of exhaust valves at
> 1,400 deg 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 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 redline is actually quite high at 9,500 rpm.
>
> 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 4.428 seconds for the
> quarter mile (11/12/06, Tony Schumacher, at Pomona , CA ). The top speed
> record is 336.15 mph as measured over the last 66' of the run (05/25/05 Tony
> Schumacher, at Hebron , OH ).
>
> 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 pass 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 1,320 foot long race course.
>
> ...... and that my friend, is ACCELERATION!
.
> Read this thru slowly and try to comprehend the amount of force produced for
> just under 4 seconds!
>
> There are no rockets or airplanes built by any government in the world that
> can accelerate from a standing start as fast as a Top Fuel Dragster!
>
>
>
>
> THE DEFINITION OF ACCELERATION
>
>
>
> One top fuel dragster 500 cubic inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than
> the first 4 rows of stock cars at the Daytona 500.
>
> It takes just 15/100ths of a second for all 6,000+ horsepower of an NHRA Top
> Fuel dragster engine to reach the rear wheels.
>
> 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's supercharger.
>
> With 3,000 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 (stoichiometry: methodology and technology by which
> quantities of reactants and products in chemical reactions are determined)
> 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture of nitro methane, the flame front temperature
> measures 7,050 deg 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 halfway, the
> engine is dieseling from compression, plus the glow of exhaust valves at
> 1,400 deg 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 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 redline is actually quite high at 9,500 rpm.
>
> 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 4.428 seconds for the
> quarter mile (11/12/06, Tony Schumacher, at Pomona , CA ). The top speed
> record is 336.15 mph as measured over the last 66' of the run (05/25/05 Tony
> Schumacher, at Hebron , OH ).
>
> 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 pass 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 1,320 foot long race course.
>
> ...... and that my friend, is ACCELERATION!
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