11,000 HORSEPOWER TOP FUEL DRAGSTERS RUNS 330 mph in 3.7 SECONDS NITRO BURNING FLAMES

Without ear protectors they'll all be needing hearing aids soon, if not already

Sometimes I have to remind myself that what are effectively smart monkeys made these things

That much power from a V8?

They can only measure HP by math, there's no dyno that can go that high. I think top fuel are pushing 15k-18k HP

It really still sounds like popcorn..

Mike Salinas and the Scrappers Racing TF car is never a slouch! Anxious for my buddy Lex Joon to start burning some low E.T's!

How many turbos would a 6 cylinder use to do that?

The launch is like a nuclear detonation

" hey man , i hear you use to work on top fuel dragsters " WHAT ?

Tinnitus for sure

the horsepower IS OVER 9000

Is it some kind of macho thing to not wear hearing protection? Everyone must be deaf on the crews.

how much horsepower do they have

How those dudes down their just raw dogging their ears around that monster 😭

That must be shit..............i don't understand purpose of it.

I need to smoke a cigarette now! That was great 💨💨🍆 shwing!!

OSHA really needs to be installed into this sport, some SERIOUS BS that non other than some 3rd world S hole would deem ok. lack of eye ear and breathing protection... all of them idiots

imagine if they had like a 100 mile strip they maintained to the finest degree for cars like this to get out there and let absolute hell break loose 😂 land Speer record would for sure be broken repeatedly lol

My gosh breathing that smoke in must be like smoking a pack of cigarettes a second. Shocked that no one has on mask filters or something...

Damn DC5 is a beast

What was the Top speed?

I have a new respect for these after going to my first drag and BRUH just sitting idle these mf’s loud as shit 😭😭😵‍💫😵‍💫

Great!!! Absolutely awesome!! Real engines, not european mofas!!! Keep it that way!!!

Is that 1/4 mile? Looks short

If the upper described acceleration and top speed doesn't sound crazy and dangerous enough then we will throw some extreme high voltage into the picture too. :D Who knows, a lonely flying dragster part might hit one of the cables to cause something even more spectacular. :D

All these dudes with no ear pro 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

I see 0 point in this

normal drag car: mine does 0-60 in 13 seconds

top fuel racer: mine only does 0- 300 in 3 seconds 😂

It’s pretty sad I just had to pay $25,000 to rebuild a Mercedes 450 motor in my dump truck and these guys rebuild one in 10 mins.

Back in the sixties there were only two winning colors in top fuel: Pink and Black. Ed Pink and Keith black. Hard to beat those guys. Wild days at the track when they showed up.

What 10,000 horsepower does to a top fuel tire at launch.
TOP FUEL ACCELERATION PUT INTO PERSPECTIVE
* One Top Fuel dragster 500 cubic-inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower (10,000 HP) than the first 5 rows at the Daytona 500.
* Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 1.2-1.5 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 merely drive the dragster's supercharger.
* With 3000 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 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture for nitro methane the flame front temperature measures 7050 degrees F.
* Nitromethane 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 1/2 way, the engine is dieseling from compression plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1400 degrees 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.
* Dragsters reach over 300 MPH before you have completed reading this sentence.
* In order to exceed 300 MPH in 4.5 seconds, dragsters must accelerate an average of over 4 G's. In order to reach 200 MPH well before half-track, the launch acce leration approaches 8 G's.
* 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 9500 RPM.
* THE BOTTOM LINE: Assuming all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, & for once, NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs an estimated $1,000 per second.
0 to 100 MPH in .8 seconds (the first 60 feet of the run)
0 to 200 MPH in 2.2 seconds (the first 350 feet of the run)
6 g-forces at the starting line (nothing accelerates faster on land)
6 negative g-forces upon deployment of twin ‘chutes at 300 MPH An NHRA Top Fuel Dragster accelerates quicker than any other land vehicle on earth . . quicker than a jet fighter plane . . . quicker than the space shuttle.
The current Top Fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.420 seconds for the quarter-mile (2004, Doug Kalitta). The top speed record is 337.58 MPH as measured over the last 66' of the run (2005, Tony Schumacher).
Putting this all 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 & 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 & pass the dragster at an honest 200 MPH. The 'tree' goes green for both of you at that moment.
The dragster launches & starts after you. You keep your foot down hard, but you hear an incredibly brutal whine that sears your eardrums & within 3 seconds the dragster catches & 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 & not only caught, but nearly blasted you off the road when he passed you within a mere 1320 foot long race!
That's acceleration!

Oh, those poor, poor mechanical parts that take the kind of beating that would reduce bone to pre-stemcell molecules.

Why though?

Pheobe from just Stop Oil protest was there

Why? This is stupid on so many levels.

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do these cars even have gears?

Surprised these suckers have reverse.

Forgot about camera man?

I went to a drag strip race here in vegas today and it was so loud. Your body vibrates with every launch. You have to be there to experience it.

Just turning these damn cars on would wake up the entire state. 💀

How can they stand so close without ear defenders? Do you relish these GREEN idiots are going to put a stop to all our beloved Motor racing in a few years/

this is drag race right

Superrr jet🥵

bro, my 2006 civic ex coupe could smoke these little hot wheels cars. I've got at least 140 horsepower, and that's at the top of my power band. Not to mention my 5 speed transmission, things a fucking rocket. NASCAR can such my VTEC.

Did I mention that I also have a sunroof? I dont see a sunroof here.