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Top Fuel racing facts:

a typical engine makes 11,000 hp

From start to finish the engine will turn 240 revolutions. Including start up, burnout, staging and the race, the engine must survive just 500 revolutions before being rebuilt. This calculation assumes an average racing engine speed of roughly 3800 revolutions per minute over a period of 3.8 seconds.

A top fuel dragster accelerates from a standstill to 100 mph (160.9 km/h) in as little as 0.8 seconds (less than one third the time required by a production Porsche 911 Turbo to reach 60 mph (96.6 km/h)) and can exceed 297 mph (478.0 km/h) in just 660 feet (201.2 m). This subjects the driver to an average acceleration of about 4.0 g0 (39 m/s2) over the duration of the race and with a peak of over 5.6 g0 (55 m/s2).

Top Fuel dragsters run around 338 miles per hour (544.0 km/h) and finishing the 1,000 foot (304.8 m) runs in 3.62 seconds.

At maximum pressure, it takes approximately 1,000 horsepower (745.7 kW) to drive the supercharger.
 
Iron Woode said:
Top Fuel racing facts:

a typical engine makes 11,000 hp

From start to finish the engine will turn 240 revolutions. Including start up, burnout, staging and the race, the engine must survive just 500 revolutions before being rebuilt. This calculation assumes an average racing engine speed of roughly 3800 revolutions per minute over a period of 3.8 seconds.

A top fuel dragster accelerates from a standstill to 100 mph (160.9 km/h) in as little as 0.8 seconds (less than one third the time required by a production Porsche 911 Turbo to reach 60 mph (96.6 km/h)) and can exceed 297 mph (478.0 km/h) in just 660 feet (201.2 m). This subjects the driver to an average acceleration of about 4.0 g0 (39 m/s2) over the duration of the race and with a peak of over 5.6 g0 (55 m/s2).

Top Fuel dragsters run around 338 miles per hour (544.0 km/h) and finishing the 1,000 foot (304.8 m) runs in 3.62 seconds.

At maximum pressure, it takes approximately 1,000 horsepower (745.7 kW) to drive the supercharger.
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I knew some of this, but 1,000 HP to drive the supercharger alone - that more power than a F1 engine's peak output!
 
Ajay said:
I knew some of this, but 1,000 HP to drive the supercharger alone - that more power than a F1 engine's peak output!
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Yeah I would have had no idea it's that high if I had to guess. That's more HP than all the cars I've ever owned, combined.
 
Ajay said:
So, the women there are, uhm, missing something?
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The Sugar Tit name is from a time when the men spent so long socializing at the local general store, their wives complained they took to the store like a baby to a sugar tit
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Sugar tit is a folk name for a baby pacifier, or dummy, that was once commonly made and used in North America and Britain. It was made by placing a spoonful of sugar, or honey, in a small patch of clean cloth, then gathering the cloth around the sugar and twisting it to form a bulb. The bulb was then secured by twine or a rubber band. The baby's saliva would slowly dissolve the sugar in the bulb.
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