We all have to abide by rules, a simple gear ratio change from the
mandatory 3.20 to one, or a little more Nitro from the maximum and I
could have the a new record. Those changes to keep the cars under three
hundred and thirty, are not yet written to my '98 NHRA Top Fuel book
section: http://www.billhughes.com/temp/NHRAtopRules.jpg
God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O


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>
> The wheel driven cars and thrust propelled cars will always have
> certain differing characteristics in terms of their acceleration
> curves-the wheel driven cars will tend to launch harder and if you have
> a 50 foot drag race,will always win. A WWII prop driven fighter will
> out run a F-15 in fifty feet as well, same principle. But with a high
> enough thrust to weight ratio the jet cars will beat the current Top
> Fuel and Funny Cars over 1/4 mile, as the absolute rocket record shows.
> Whether anyone will is another question-a current low bypass fan
> fighter engine is in the neighborhood of five million dollars.
>
> Drag racing always outlawed anything that embarrassed their sponsor
> base-manufacturers of go-fast parts for Detroit iron. They outlawed the
> Allisons, they desanctioned the jets, etc.
>
> This whole long bull**** dissertation on drag racing is itself an
> example of Bill's tactics. Get him cornered on any subject and he goes
> off on some irrelevant crap with a blast that is "not even wrong". When
> you rise to the bait, then, of course one of his sockpuppets starts
> bitching this is off topic!
>
> And to answer Bill's last bon mot, there is not one piece in a current
> fuel dragster engine that is actually off a '51 Chrysler. It's all
> specially made and only shares the same bolt patterns and cylinder bore
> center spacing.