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Off Topic: Ridiculous Horesepower

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Buddy of mine was helping out another buddy by being his "tire scraper" for a weekend - guy had a top fuel funny car. My friend said that when the engine was running, even at idle, the concussion from the pressure waves in the air made it hard to breath when you were near the car. Hard to even imagine.

Regarding the fuel consumption, there is so much fuel being forced into the engine they are almost to hydraulic lock! Not sure how much fuel we are talking about but it's a LOT!
 
Anybody that hasn't been to see a tractor/truck pull, or a top fuel dragster...... honestly, what are you WAITING FOR??? I think anybody on this board will appreciate the HP show. I've seen everything from lawnmowers to multi-engined tractors and one's running alcohol and nitrous. Some crazy $#!^ out there.

Checked out the Mopar Nationals last year. My first drag race, but I can vouch for the claims made by Nessism's buddy. And if you don't remember to plug your ears before they launch, you'll soon have damaged hearing because the horrific noise created by these engines stops your whole body from reacting to the signals sent by your brain.

Some guys I know were running a modified John Deere model A in the stock classes at some tractor pulls. They had aluminum pistons and rods and a modified crank and flywheels. This thing revved up to 2 or 3 times where a stock one would have blown up. Needless to say, they always won until they got kicked out. Then they moved on to bigger and faster things. Amazing how much money people throw at their hobbies......
 
"Amazing how much money people throw at their hobbies......"

Well, considering that after the top end rebuild I'm about to start I'll probably have over $4000 in a 27 year old bike I couldn't sell for half that... it doesn't amaze me at all.
 
I always enjoyed seeing the heavily-modified diesel tractors run, with their injector pumps turned waaayyyy up...they'd put out enough black smoke to block out the sun. I first saw tractor-pulling in the late '60's, at a place called Cowtown Rodeo, in Woodstown,NJ. where I grew up. I was told that this was the birthplace of the inclined pulling sled w/ the big weight.
 
hp1000s said:
I always enjoyed seeing the heavily-modified diesel tractors run, with their injector pumps turned waaayyyy up...they'd put out enough black smoke to block out the sun. I first saw tractor-pulling in the late '60's, at a place called Cowtown Rodeo, in Woodstown,NJ. where I grew up. I was told that this was the birthplace of the inclined pulling sled w/ the big weight.
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Oh, yes. I have only seen those once, and that on TV. The front end of one of these trucks was permanently twisted from all the torque. Sitting still, it looked like it had been in a wreck. When pulling, the front end was off the ground and twisted about 30?.
 
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