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Originally Posted by dyna mo
It's too bad you can't see all the science and thinking that goes into top fuel.
Just as importantly, a top fuel car only burns about 4 gallons of nitromethane per pass.
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According to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Fuel the "typical run" consumes 12 gallons, not 4, plus another 22.75 gallons just to warm up. No worries though, Top Fuel Dragsters are all about speed, not fuel efficiency.
There's no doubt that a lot of thinking goes into making this cars as fast as possible. It's just that to me, its boring.
For example, according to this wiki page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Fuel, a Top Fuel Dragster generates 150db of sound, enough to cause pain and ear damage. All of this sound is actually wasted energy. I know people love the sound, but that item aside, if the energy used to create the sound could be put into the wheels, you would get more speed, and less wasted energy.
I didn't know this before, but some of the white flame it spits out of their exhaust is hydrogen. That's pretty neat. If they could use this wasted energy to drive the car even faster, then I might start being interested...
Not trying to harsh your buzz. As you know for me, it's just all about the science. I would love to see an electric car beat an top fuel dragster one day. I don't think its far off.