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I was lucky enough to get VIP access to Schumacher Racing at the Gatornationals a few years back. Amazing being in the hauler with Antron Brown and he was doing some next level visualization complete with his body jerking to the G-forces. On the start line being next to that violence was something that I will never forget. You feel it in your chest so hard that you wonder if it will affect your heartbeat.
Interesting fact, a Top Fuel motor turns some where near 1000 revolutions between rebuilds. From test - Burnout - Run. That is amazing.
No wonder it is an expensive hobby!
The Shop
Top Fuel and Funny cars front tires don’t line up exactly (spindle staggering).
Staggering the front spindles (what the wheels mount to) are set up with one wheel ahead of the other ( about 1” to 2”) which in turn gives the starting beams a larger target that will give a longer roll out. This will give your car a running start at the starting beams. Legal cheating in a small sense, but highly regulated.
Untrue. I can read a lot faster than the author of that sentence thinks I can. (I just tested it with a stopwatch. My results are 0.61 seconds.)
Still, it's crazy how the physics work in that racing format. The part about the pressures involved with the fuel intake are mind blowing.
The only thing I own that sees a strip is my 1971 Scamp. It had a very mild 440 with a 250 shot and ran 10.4 1/4 mile. I yanked the 440 and am finishing up a 543” stroker (all that’s left to do is measure for pushrod length). Should be a solid 700hp. No idea what it’ll run, but hopefully it’ll run the same or better. It’ll be good enough to turn some heads and cruise town.
Let me tell ya, when you let that foot off the clutch at 6500 rpm and the front wheels come 3ft off the ground, then you let her down to grap second and they come back up another foot this time, then manage that beast the rest of the way down the track, man those where some of the best times of my life. This is especially true when you know all that blood, sweat and tears was from all those countless hours you spent doing it yourself! It might have only been 9.3 seconds for me but damn it was fun.
Then my boys got bigger so i chose to go back to my roots of dirt bikes just so i could spend a little more time with them!
I started off in a BB 69’ Camaro and then worked my way up to a 240” Mullis dragster(digger) with a 582” Chevy. I was all over the east coast racing in brackets, super comp and TD. They were great times with my father.
I still follow the sport at all levels and miss it at times.
Pit Row
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