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The belts frequently break when they run here in Denver because they crank the boost up to try and get back the lost atmosphere. When a belt gets thrown off far enough that a spectator could grab it, the announcer has to remind everyone to leave it the gently caress alone because it was just transmitting over 800HP through it and it's more than hot enough to badly burn your hands before your brain tells you to drop it.
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Or it goes flying off and kills somebody. This awesome guy used to bring his car to my shop and knew my boss. He stopped showing up and turns out the belt snapped and killed him because he was standing in just the right spot. Rip cool dude with a blown camro/firebird thing.
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Feb 12, 2016 15:49
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Would that count as some sort of extreme form of charge cooling? Since as it vaporizes it should cool down the charge to prevent the knocking hand of god. Nitromethane also has like twice the latent heat of vaporization that gas does as well. I'm pretty sure I remember reading in an old Hot Rod or something that this is the main way dragster engines stay cool enough to run for the brief amount of time that they do, since they don't have (functional) coolant passages.
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Feb 12, 2016 16:45
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Don't forget that it also works as a high explosive with more energy than TNT, although it does have a slower velocity of detonation. Nobody knew this until a railcar of the stuff went off in 1958, likely due to water hammer.
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Feb 12, 2016 18:43
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Enourmo posted:Pretty much, it produces bigger explosions because needing less air means you can fill your cylinder up with more fuel. Top Fuel engines are basically running right on the edge of hydrolock at full throttle. Since nitro contains its own oxygen, you can even go beyond the already-ridiculous stoichiometric point and run uber-hyper-mega rich, with basically just enough air to have something to compress on the stroke and not blow the heads off (and that even happens!). It's one thing to know the theory and engineering and numbers behind what it takes to make those engines work. When you actually get to see it though... 
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Feb 12, 2016 23:07
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More evidence that the wrong superpower failed. A soviet car show in 1987              
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Feb 12, 2016 23:59
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Powershift posted:More evidence that the wrong superpower failed. A soviet car show in 1987 ... but underneath, they were all Ladas. Or tractors, but I repeat myself.
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Darchangel posted:... but underneath, they were all Ladas. Or tractors, but I repeat myself. So they were all technically fiats? A country with a glorious bounty of italian cars, not sure I have any issues with that. Besides Lada pioneered groundbreaking technology like aluminum brake drums. You certainly don't see anything that radical on boring western cars.
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Feb 13, 2016 00:10
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I don't know what #18 is, with that rad as hell forward tilting cockpit, but it owns.
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Feb 13, 2016 04:16
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T1g4h posted:I don't know what #18 is, with that rad as hell forward tilting cockpit, but it owns. Apparently it's a Pangolina 444GT. Looks to be a concept car (no poo poo).
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Feb 13, 2016 05:52
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Were any of those production vehicles or were they all concepts/customized by owner? The build quality looks even worse than expected and the styling is at least 10 years latent.
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Feb 13, 2016 07:50
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Despite being a RAV4 I think this is the right thread.
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Feb 13, 2016 22:10
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_because_ it's a rav-4 this is the right thread
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Feb 14, 2016 17:41
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:You get me I'm the greybeard warlock tuning a nitro engine by sense of touch speaking of voodoo witchcraft, who wants to keep this one running? not me  Raluek posted:I don't think I've seen a SBC nitro drag car before. How many of them are not-HEMIs? lots Ford SOHC "Cammer"  McGee Quad Cam  Rigged Death Trap posted:Would that count as some sort of extreme form of charge cooling? Since as it vaporizes it should cool down the charge to prevent the knocking hand of god. The only cooling a nitro car gets is via the nitromethane fuel. When you see smoke coming out of the exhaust during a run, it's not smoke but a cloud of unburned nitro. Works the same as tear gas if you are close to it, fun stuff. This video is an excellent breakdown of a Top Fuel Dragster. Funny Car is for all intents and purposes the same. Seizure Meat fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Feb 14, 2016 |
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Feb 14, 2016 18:06
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VikingSkull posted:I'm the greybeard warlock tuning a nitro engine by sense of touch I'd imagine it would be easier, if anything, to run than a blower car--at least with modern turbochargers and ECUs. Less heat, no parasitic loss, actual tunable boost levels, and probably easier on the tires too. It would likely let you run less nitromethane for the same power levels, and that would help with longevity.
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MetaJew posted:Despite being a RAV4 I think this is the right thread. So i see you were at POWMOW this weekend. Saw the same vehicle as the guy got in it and tooled up the snowpack to his house. Should throw those on my R and see what it does haha.
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1500quidporsche posted:So they were all technically fiats? A country with a glorious bounty of italian cars, not sure I have any issues with that. I mean they built the same exact car virtually unchanged for 40 years and made something like 14 million of them. They still make em in Egypt. Its amazing that in 2005 you could buy a brand new car that still had a choke.
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Delivery McGee posted:Wait, how do you even fit in one of those? Looks like you'd be getting rather intimate with the diff. many did from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_engine_dragster quote:The driver sits angled backward, over the top of the differential in a cockpit situated between the two rear tires, a design originating with Mickey Thompson in 1954, as a way of improving traction. This position led to many drivers being maimed when catastrophic clutch failures occurred.
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Delivery McGee posted:Wait, how do you even fit in one of those? Looks like you'd be getting rather intimate with the diff. 
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That pedal owns.
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Feb 14, 2016 20:17
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Drive with a diff snuggling your balls and a clutch between your feet: not even once.
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From the same page: quote:The rail was supplanted by the rear-engined car now standard when Don Garlits introduced Swamp Rat XIV in 1971. He designed the car while in hospital, himself suffering from severe injuries caused by an exploding clutch.
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Feb 14, 2016 20:20
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Just strap me to the front of a rocket sled. I'm sure it's faster and safer too.
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Feb 14, 2016 20:28
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VikingSkull posted:Ford SOHC "Cammer" Looks like Snake in the seat for that one. Those Ford Cammers were the poo poo.
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wallaka posted:I'd imagine it would be easier, if anything, to run than a blower car--at least with modern turbochargers and ECUs. Less heat, no parasitic loss, actual tunable boost levels, and probably easier on the tires too. It would likely let you run less nitromethane for the same power levels, and that would help with longevity. there's not a transistor anywhere on that car, that poo poo is 100% mechanical Boaz MacPhereson posted:Looks like Snake in the seat for that one. Those Ford Cammers were the poo poo. Yup, that's Snake. Speaking of, here's the Snake's take on front engine dragsters
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I saw this rare gem on the road yesterday. Not often you see these anymore even in non-turbo form. It was a Voyager if I recall.
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BoostCreep posted:I saw this rare gem on the road yesterday. Not often you see these anymore even in non-turbo form. It was a Voyager if I recall. it would have to be for what its carrying. Also the shag carpet on the dash is a neat throwback as well.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoiWpJLokEc
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Here I was, scrolling down and trying to picture a 944 with louvers.
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Feb 16, 2016 17:27
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As AIs louver super fan, those are pretty terrible louvers. Not as bad as a cavalier with louvers, however. 
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Feb 16, 2016 17:58
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Months later, still no transmission. They did weld a lot more tubes though!
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To be fair, the only way to salvage a cavalier of that generation is to send it to a scrap yard.
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That EL display. 
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That is the kinda dash I want in a car, not this babby touchscreen bollocks.
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I love mechanical buttons because you can identify them by touch, but that panel in particular fails because the dials are too small to use when you have gloves on.  loving love the dash mounted fuses though.
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The Boost dial is my favorite.
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