Rod Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chapman Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 Ford people are too busy doing cocaine and banging hookers to mess with The Leman's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambroski Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 I don't care who you are or what your flavor of ride is. One thing is for sure. The Vette is without a doubt the best "supercar" for the money. Not even a close second. Sure, fit and finish may not be "Ferrari-ish". Bit you can cover it with the checkered flag if that bothers you too much. My last one set up for auto-X 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Posted October 6, 2016 Author Share Posted October 6, 2016 C6z will never be duplicated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sear Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 OK motor-heads. I can NOT authenticate the following. But I read it, found it interesting, and thought perhaps you would too: Dragster One top fuel dragster 500 cubic inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than the first 4 rows of stock cars at the Daytona 500. It takes just 15/100ths of a second for all 6,000+ horsepower of an NHRA Top Fuel dragster engine to reach the rear wheels. Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 1-1/2 gallons of nitro methane per second. A fully loaded 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate but with 25% less energy being produced. A stock Dodge Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to drive the dragster's supercharger. With 3,000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into a near-solid form before ignition. Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock at full throttle. At the stoichiometric (stoichiometry: methodology and technology by which quantities of reactants and products in chemical reactions are determined) 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture of nitro methane, the flame front temperature measures 7,050 deg F. Nitro methane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric water vapor by the searing heat of the exhaust gases. Dual magnetos supply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of an arc welder in each cylinder. Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After halfway, the engine is dieseling from compression, plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1,400 deg F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting the fuel flow. If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro immediately builds up in the affected cylinder and then explodes with sufficient force to blow cylinder heads off the block in pieces or split the block in half. In order to exceed 300 mph in 4. 5 seconds, dragsters must accelerate an average of over 4G's. In order to reach 200 mph (well before half-track), the launch acceleration approaches 8G's. Dragsters reach over 300 miles per hour before you have completed reading this one sentence. Top fuel engines turn approximately 540 revolutions from light to light! Including the burnout, the engine must only survive 900 revolutions under load. The redline is actually quite high at 9,500 rpm. Assuming all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, and for once NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs an estimate $1,000.00 per second. The current top fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.428 seconds for the quarter mile (11/12/06, Tony Schumacher, at Pomona , CA ). The top speed record is 336.15 mph as measured over the last 66' of the run (05/25/05 Tony Schumacher, at Hebron , OH ). Putting all of this into perspective: You are driving the average $140,000 Lingenfelter 'twin-turbo' powered Corvette Z06. Over a mile up the road, a top fuel dragster is staged and ready to launch down a quarter mile strip as you pass. You have the advantage of a flying start. You run the 'Vette hard up through the gears and blast across the starting line and pass the dragster at an honest 200 mph. The 'tree' goes green for both of you at that moment.. The dragster launches and starts after you. You keep your foot down hard, but you hear an incredibly brutal whine that sears your eardrums and within 3 seconds, the dragster catches and passes you. He beats you to the finish line, a quarter mile away from where you just passed him. Think about it, from a standing start, the dragster had spotted you 200 mph and not only caught, but nearly blasted you off the road when he passed you within a mere 1,320 foot long race course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Posted October 6, 2016 Author Share Posted October 6, 2016 And they're pushrods! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sear Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 Yeah. Too bad. Pushrods are obsolete, entirely unnecessary. My boss used race 5/8 mile oval track in Middletown, NY. He was doing pretty well, but a rocker-arm broke, and it sent the pushrod up through and part way out of the valve cover. I doubt F1 engines have pushrods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Posted October 6, 2016 Author Share Posted October 6, 2016 Fastest cars in the world use pushrods. slowest v8 pony car on the market has DOHC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member BOHICA Posted October 6, 2016 Gold Member Share Posted October 6, 2016 Canada doesnt like pushrods. They prefer a superior vehicle evident by the sale numbers http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2016/10/ford-f-series-hits-time-canadian-record-outsells-three-top-rivals-combined/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Skidooski Posted October 6, 2016 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted October 6, 2016 Starts out with Lemans but now on to Canada's preference for half ton trucks. Only on FSCE and only with Ford groupies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sear Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 #8 Fastest vehicles in the known world are rockets. Rockets don't have pushrods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Skidooski Posted October 6, 2016 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted October 6, 2016 6 minutes ago, sear said: #8 Fastest vehicles in the known world are rockets. Rockets don't have pushrods. Jesus christ...really? SMH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sear Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 " ...really?" yep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Skidooski Posted October 6, 2016 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted October 6, 2016 40 minutes ago, Skidooski said: Jesus christ...really? SMH Sarcasm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SVT MXZ XRS Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 Pour clueless , welfare nigger Fudgy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Posted October 6, 2016 Author Share Posted October 6, 2016 Pushrods are more efficient too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted October 6, 2016 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted October 6, 2016 4 hours ago, Zambroski said: I don't care who you are or what your flavor of ride is. One thing is for sure. The Vette is without a doubt the best "supercar" for the money. Not even a close second. Sure, fit and finish may not be "Ferrari-ish". Bit you can cover it with the checkered flag if that bothers you too much. My last one set up for auto-X That is just badass Z Dog! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f7ben Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 I absolutely love corvettes but they try to kill me all the time so..........NO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckf Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted October 7, 2016 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted October 7, 2016 Took a ride in this yesterday....buddy's chopped 69 C10 with zz454...badass. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f7ben Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 sweet truck ....my buddy had a 69 in highschool that was super sweet. Loved that truck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sear Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 " Pushrods are more efficient too " #16 I'm willing to review your data. But your assertion is counter-intuitive. A pushrod valve-train has the following lubricatable bearings: - Cam to lifter - pushrod to rocker - rocker to valve stem BUT !!! On an overhead cam engine the cam lobe operates the valve stem more directly. That eliminates some of the flimsiest components in the engine. That enables a higher red-line. That enables more power strokes per minute. That enables a higher power output. Again: " Pushrods are more efficient too " #16 I DOUBT it. But I'll be delighted to review your data, if / when you post it. (don't worry, I know you won't) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Posted October 7, 2016 Author Share Posted October 7, 2016 The pushrod 6.2 camaro is rated better on fuel than the DOHC 5.0 mustang Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f7ben Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 3 minutes ago, Sludgey said: The pushrod 6.2 camaro is rated better on fuel than the DOHC 5.0 mustang nope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Posted October 7, 2016 Author Share Posted October 7, 2016 3 minutes ago, f7ben said: nope Yup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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