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All race cars are powerful, but the NHRA’s Top Fuel dragster and Funny Car are the beefed-up Arnold Schwarzeneggers of the motorsports world. • Consider, a 358-cubic-inch V8 NASCAR engine ...
The fastest class in the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) drag-racing series, a top-fuel dragster can rocket to 300 mph in less than 4 seconds. We look inside one of these cars to expose the ...
Yep, it's a Celica, at least as much as John Force's Funny Car is a Mustang and Dean Skuza's is a Dodge. The Celica was put together only weeks before and will get its first solid runs in the NHRA ...
Last weekend, Steve Torrence won the Top Fuel Dragster class, while Austin Prock won the Funny Car class. This weekend is expected to be even more crazy as Sonoma presents a tough challenge for ...
How Much Horsepower Do Top Fuel Dragster Engines ... As the world's fastest accelerating race car, Top Fuel dragsters are capable of covering 1,000 feet in less than 3.8 seconds and are capable of ...
Well, here's a seven-minute time lapse of a complete teardown and rebuild of an 11,000-HP supercharged top-fuel dragster engine. Typical street-car engines can run for hundreds of thousands of ...
We take a look at Tom Hoover’s 1966 “Fishbowl” Top Fuel Dragster, the most beautiful dragster ever built. Features. Events. How-To ... This car, the Hoover's fourth dragster in as many years ...
This entire Woody Gilmore dragster, at one time an active Top Fuel car, was purchased during the winter (in more or less "turn-key" condition) for just $5000, trailer and fuel motor included.
In January 2021, the McLaren 765LT became the quickest production car on the quarter-mile, thanks to a 9.3-second run. That's an impressive benchmark for a road-legal car, but it's extremely slow ...
Thanks to the ingenuity of a cooperation between Race Engine Technology magazine, AVL Racing and Don Schumacher Racing, we now know that a Top Fuel dragster can put out as much as 11,051 bhp ...
No mere rubber donuts, dragster tires are active parts of the driveline. A single tire runs for roughly $917 and is expected to last only 1.5 miles.
Based on the Chrysler Hemi engine, a Top Fuel dragster's power plant uses nitromethane as its fuel and is capable of generating 11,000 horsepower, a staggering power output that dwarfs horsepower ...