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Electric: 0-60mph in ~0.9s Top Fuel: 0-60mph in ~0.4s Wow.
by itishappy 3y ago
Electric: 0-60mph in ~0.9s
Top Fuel: 0-60mph in ~0.4s
Wow.
- westmeal 3y agoyeah top fuel is bonkers those engines literally eat themselves alive down the track within milliseconds! hardcore!!!!
- jjav 3y agobonkers is a good word. I've never enjoyed drag racing and top fuel cars are incredibly wasteful and yet, one has to admire and stand in awe at the engineering. Every single aspect of those cars is off the scale insane and then some. They use spark plugs, driven by more amps than an arc welder. But the plugs melt away in just a few instants, the rest of the run the engine is dieseling from the extreme heat. The supercharger alone takes so much power to turn that barely any car on the street could even run it. The tires are quite something, watch slow motion videos. https://autowise.com/a-nitro-burning-top-fuel-engine-the-most-extreme-environment-on-earth/ https://autowise.com/a-nitro-burning-top-fuel-engine-the-mos...
- rnk 3y agoElectric: 0-60mph in ~0.9s Top Fuel: 0-60mph in ~0.4s That's students though, students at ~0.9s! Wow.
- papa-whisky 3y agoI wonder if they'd go any faster if the rules allowed overhead cams! Even though these cars have disastrous efficiency and need to be completely rebuilt after every run and have backwards rules that leave them using "ancient" technology, I can't help but be awed by the effectiveness of the sledgehammer approach.