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So put your money where you month is, it's only a half second away
at National Hot Rod Association's http://www.nhra.com/stats/natrecord.html Until then you don't mind if I be Rolling On The Floor Laughing My A** Off! waiting for you, of course I guess we could always go twelve cylinders. ROTFLMAO!!!!!! God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O http://www.billhughes.com/ c wrote: > > Bill, > Do you know the difference between a rocket car and a jet car? I did not say > that the jets were banned, in fact I went to see them at the local track > just a few weeks ago. I do still remember going to watch my first drag race > at the same track 28 years ago, and the ROCKET car that was there that night > ran a 4.93 ET at 344 MPH. This was 28 years ago when the Top Fuel cars still > had the short wings, they shifted gears, and they didn't have the lockup > clutches like they do now. Also thousands fewer ponies too. I can't say what > the TF cars were running back then, but I do know that the 4 second barrier > was not broken until Eddie Hill did it the week after the US Nationals in > 1988. He broke the 4 second barrier at the Texas Motorplex running a 4.93ET > if my memory serves me correctly. I was at Indy that year, and Gene Snow and > I believe Joe Amato were in the finals. Snow had run a 5.002 in the semi > finals, and said he would get the 4 in the final, but his throttle linkage > broke right after he launched. Anyway, my point here is that the rocket cars > had got so fast, and I believe I remember hearing about a run that was over > 400MPH and in the very low 4 second range, but that I am not sure of. I > think that was when all of the sanctioning bodies started banning the > rockets. Also, the Jets do sometimes hit a higher top speed than the TF > cars, but I haven't seen or heard of a jet that is close to a TF car as far > as ET is concerned, and ET is what counts. Now, I'm sure if someone built an > unlimited jet car based on the newest jet technology, it might be a > different story. I did find this page that only shows the records for a > particular track. > > http://www.mirdrag.com/records.htm > > It shows a 3 tenths of a second difference in favor of the TF car. This ET > difference at 300MPH equates to 132 feet! Not my imagination at all. > > Chris |
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