Words simply aren't enough to describe the raw power these machines make. When the driver's hit the gas it will shock every one of your senses. You'll walk away wondering how man has done such a thing. A truly unique experience. First timer's are never the same after.
You're not human if you can walk away from the starting line of a top fuel race and not be blown away by every single thing about it. All five senses are maxed out in a millisecond. It truly is life-altering.
Many don't understand just how loud these things really are. I used to live just over 10 miles from the race track, and every time the top fuel dragsters and funny cars were in town: you could hear the passes indoors with all the windows and doors shut from 10 miles away as the crow flies with plenty of hills, trees, and hundreds of homes in between. They're insanely loud, and even cause the equivalent of a 2.3 magnitude earthquake when they leave the starting line. If you ever get a chance to see them: do it! But bring hearing protection.
I wish my speakers could produce the sound more realistically. When they take off on my monitor, it just sounds like somebody twisting up a piece wax paper. You have to be there to experience what it really sounds like. It's been 50 years since I last heard that sound for what was called funny cars back then. Not sure if any of the pioneers like Garlits, Dick Landy, Dyno Don and all the rest are still living.
@@headlibrarian1996 They're certainly better than nothing! 😅 To be on the safe side though you probably want to combine them with over the ear protection though especially for youngsters with sensitive hearing. Top fuel can be ~150dB. 70dB is considered safe levels for long term exposure, which means you need 80dB worth of hearing protection to be at the safe level, but honestly any hearing protection is better than nothing.
Everyone needs to experience this once, myself, I love the feel the sound, and the one thing for me you left out the nitro/rubber burning smell great video and informative to the ones never saw this spectacle.
When the drive shaft locks up, it can absolutely be over 6 g's! It's amazing to try to process when you're getting almost 280 mph at or before half track and then it starts accelerating harder than it did at the hit of the throttle!
Dude. I've been to the Thunder Valley Nationals three times in Bristol. One of the BIGGEST examples of pure badassery you will ever feel,see,and smell in your freaking life. Hell yeah. Nothing else even comes close! Freakin love it.🤘💯🔥💪
I have been going to Pomona Winter Nationals and the Finals since around 1973. The cars of course go faster each year. There was a period of time I did not attend any drag races from 1979 till the 1990s after Kenny B. broke the 300mph mark also they changed the stands from wood to aluminum. The first top fuel run I saw in maybe 95, I swear I thought I was having a seizure with my brain vibrating inside my skull , when the adrenaline rush subsided and I realized I was not going to need medical help I was hooked again. I can describe it to you, but I can't understand it for you. It is truly something you must witness for yourself to fully comprehend what 10-12,000 horsepower can be in an 8 cyl. 500 ci.in motor running on Nitro- methane (originally used as a printing/ ink solvent)
Growing up as a kid in Edmonton in the seventies I remember top fuel funny cars and dragsters hitting around 260 mile an hour. And I think there were somewhere around 5 second quarter miles. I'll never forget thinking that can't ever possibly be surpassed. But if you've never had a chance to experience one of these live, it's almost intimidating if not scary....in a very mind bendingly awesome way! Wonder if we'll ever be in the low 3's?....
Actually the cars would still be doing 4 or 5 seconds. They shortened the 1/4 mile from 1,320 feet to just 1,000 feet. So the times are all off now! Plus the NHRA has a restriction on the speed at 1,000 feet to not exceed 335 MPH. So top fuel is basically reached its peak. Like everything else these days; life was better in the 20th century. ✔️
They is nothing like it.been watch top fuel for 30 yrs tv one thing seen it live in person is a total experience .As for Scott Kalitta still bring a tear to my eye got to meet him in Australia when he was driving top fuel over here in 2005 and one of the nicest guys in drag racing. Would take time to talk to anyone.
Thanks for making this video! Finally a Top Fuel short documentary that does not abuse slow-motion takes that misrepresent the very sport they are trying to describe.
Yes, that's right. These racers are really american superheroes! Unbelievable how they can control with crazy speed 🤪 🙃🤪🙃🤪🙃 How COOL when a top fuel dragster throttle whack and flyby👍👌🙌
@@shorty808100 nothing like a Stock Car you must be meaning right. Similarities 0 that's part of it for me, iam a mechanic retired with a few chevy engines and some HOGS in the shed also got the SMOKEY book on my shelf well read too. We don't have Stock car racing in Australia ,got Dirt track but I go watch that every chance I get .
@@shorty808100 Nah, you don't just see them or hear them, you get to FEEL them. It's nothing even like alcohol dragsters, and those are the 2nd fastest dragsters.
I remember watching Shirley go up in flames. Was one of the rare times I got to see drags on TV. I searched out the movie about it after. long time ago man.
@Telephaz Did you know the flames you see above the headers is not from the cylinder, that fuel is already gone, the flame is hydrogen burning in the separated Molecules from H2O atmospheric surrounding air.
@@thedubwhisperer2157 Watched a documentary. Also those engines were built to turn less than 8 thousand revolutions before needing rebuilt. 9 thousand for 4 seconds and they are done.
Sept 4, 2022 a top fuel car driven by Brittany Force at the US Nationals recorded a 299.73 mile per hour at the eighth mile clocks during a qualifying run. The newly formed 1/8 mile 300mph club almost had its first member. That my friends is acceleration.
@SpaceAce100 no. That's just a spot where timers are. It's been a goal to hit 300 mph by there. I don't remember this pass, but I will go back and look for it.
Some of my fondest memories are of Gatornationals when I was a kid, its something else to be just dripping tears from all the alcohol in the air while these machines literally shake your skeleton under your skin. Everything feels like its vibrating, your eyes, nose, and throat burn, and then these things rip by so fast you can hardly keep pace with your eyes. Ive watched them take off into the air at over 200 miles and hour and come down as a little roll cage around the driver. If they get the slightest breeze under them they turn into a fighter jet without wings.
Top fuel is insane!!! I absolutely love it!!! Been 100 times and every time just as exciting as the first..took my son to the gatornationals 2 yrs back, (13 then), his first time. Went to the pits for a proper top fuel indoctrination..we had a blast😁
You have to experience this in person. 11,000HP, a new Corvette makes 500HP, they use about 8 gallons of fuel for the burnout, staging and 1-1,000ft run. That's $45 a gallon of nitromethane which equals to about $400 per run. 0-60MPH in the time it takes to blink your eye and 0-100MPH is in the first 60 feet. They stopped running 1,320 feet because the tires would expand so much at that speed and would cause them to explode. The cars at idle are on the verge of hydro-lock. The burnouts are done at half fuel volume into the cylinders. Spark plugs stop working halfway down the track because they are fouled out due to so much fuel and power sent to the plugs. A Dodge Demon that makes 700HP and can't turn over the supercharger because it's so far over driven. The engines are rebuilt after each run and cost about $10,000 to rebuild. Tires usually last 3 runs. The clutch fuses together about 300 feet out. The most G forces isn't felt at launch, you actually feel the most G forces when the transmission fully engages at about 200 feet. The spark plugs see 44 amps and 60,000 volts in one spark. You could pass the start line, for a 1,000 foot race, at 200MPH and the dragster is sitting still, the dragster will pass you at half tack and beat you by a quarter track with you going 200MPH.
"life begins & ends, god bless america" bro that guy is going to win or die, his own crew chief even did the crucifix on his body. What a fucking legend. 5:54
Been to the local dragstrip once, they had the less powerful 3000 hp nitro rail cars and nothing in the world compares to the feeling of sitting on that starting line and they stomp on that peddle in anger.
A person must see them (in the flesh) to understand them. There are no words to describe the experience. Every gearhead reading this sport- SEE IT IN PERSON!!!
True. Had the luck of seeing Ida Zetterström pull the FIA top fuel European record in Santa Pod - UK. When she pulled into the lane and fired up... Holy crap. My entire body was vibrating with the sound and when she launched even my ear-pro failed because that shit hurt. Seeing that Swedish/Finnish flag on the record number was nice.
We are also so so so so close to see a 300 mph ⅛ mile pass! (And they are regularly doing it in less than 2.9 seconds now!) I really hope to see you at 340 mile an hour pass, after Robert what 339.87 in funny car a few years back, and again with the funny cars and the dragsters, changing the rev limiters, it's really good to see both classes hitting 335, 337 etc. It's what it needs to be the tires are good enough and I really I'm glad I don't hear much of the 300 should be the exception not the rule it's like no 330 needs to be the standard!
If you've never been to actually see, feel, hear and smell these hemi powered rolling rockets launch, you are missing out. Nothing else even comes close!!
@@curtisthomas16 Yes , and it's not even in the same zip code as a Chrysler hemi . All the current NHRA FUNNY & TOP FUEL ENGINS ARE BASED OFF OF IT FOR A REASON .. Even the chebby guy's are trying to copy them by putting hemi type heads of a chevy block . The hemi has a stronger bottom end . deep skirt block , then the roadapple
Watching Drag Racing in The 70s When Engines Were Not as Powerfull and a 1/4 mile at Santa Pod Raceway in Bedford England .Still Going at Race Meets .BUT Wow The Speed and Noise . One Day Love 2 Go 2 See NHRA ?
I worked in an engine shop we built a 440 cubic inch big block stroker 15 to 1 compression on alcohol in a little Vega open headers tube frame yeah it was loud ran at 9:30 first time on the strip with a bad injection pump pedaling it
As a deaf person it shocks me to see how many people just take their hearing for granted just to look cool for a few seconds for lifelong deafness. Its sad really.
Ive known of scott kalitta's crash for years but why did they shorten the track to 1000' because of it? Now the last drag races ive been to were the 1999 U.S. Nationals in Indy so ive been out of going to them for a while.
The tires are the craziest part in my opinion. We can always build stronger and stronger engines and transmissions but getting the power to the ground. . . That's the tricky part. How do those tires hold the ground with all that power? ? Crazy
Words simply aren't enough to describe the raw power these machines make. When the driver's hit the gas it will shock every one of your senses. You'll walk away wondering how man has done such a thing. A truly unique experience. First timer's are never the same after.
not only that your heart just abotu stops if your close enough
Hits the gas? You mean accelerator. Its called that because it accelerates the car. Gas pedal? The car uses a liquid for fuel.
@@Jay_Richardson Who said anything about a "pedal?" Wait, that was YOU. LOL.
@@Jay_Richardson : Oh goodie; another teenage engineering consultant.
Go play your video games, kid.
@@nitromartini1422 age 35, web developer. And i dont play games sorry ^^
You're not human if you can walk away from the starting line of a top fuel race and not be blown away by every single thing about it. All five senses are maxed out in a millisecond. It truly is life-altering.
And what's more......... You're not human if you do "Golf Claps" ¹ at the event!
¹ "Men At Work" (Charlie Sheen & Emilio Estevez 1990).
do you taste the fuel?
I heard one of these absolute MONSTERS start at a car show, and my dear GOD. They are MAD. 😳
Oh yeah, these extreme monsters are firing flames and make us feel shocked😲😲😲
Many don't understand just how loud these things really are. I used to live just over 10 miles from the race track, and every time the top fuel dragsters and funny cars were in town: you could hear the passes indoors with all the windows and doors shut from 10 miles away as the crow flies with plenty of hills, trees, and hundreds of homes in between. They're insanely loud, and even cause the equivalent of a 2.3 magnitude earthquake when they leave the starting line. If you ever get a chance to see them: do it! But bring hearing protection.
So nice, thank you for sharing your experiences!!!
Oh yes! Think think they know. They don't. Pretty much applies to all Americans when it comes to real history, and world events too!
I wish my speakers could produce the sound more realistically. When they take off on my monitor, it just sounds like somebody twisting up a piece wax paper. You have to be there to experience what it really sounds like. It's been 50 years since I last heard that sound for what was called funny cars back then. Not sure if any of the pioneers like Garlits, Dick Landy, Dyno Don and all the rest are still living.
What sort of hearing protection is good enough? Foam earplugs are surely inadequate.
@@headlibrarian1996 They're certainly better than nothing! 😅 To be on the safe side though you probably want to combine them with over the ear protection though especially for youngsters with sensitive hearing. Top fuel can be ~150dB. 70dB is considered safe levels for long term exposure, which means you need 80dB worth of hearing protection to be at the safe level, but honestly any hearing protection is better than nothing.
You will NEVER understand, until you attend a Top Fuel event. Then you will NEVER forget it.
Yeah, that's nice 🙌
Boy howdy!
You ain’t NEVER LIED!!!!
I went to Gatornationals and top fuel made my heart stop and my feet came a foot off the ground.
True true. I've never seen so many people who can't speak properly and have so many teeth missing!
Everyone needs to experience this once, myself, I love the feel the sound, and the one thing for me you left out the nitro/rubber burning smell great video and informative to the ones never saw this spectacle.
I agree man. I just recently went to my first one of these in Indianapolis and it was phenomenal.
@@zachchayer its great living less than an hour drive from there!
nitro is the best sum one needs to make a candle that smells like it..
Went to one of these drag racing events for the first time last year, you feel it in your soul.
That was great. I really enjoyed that.
When the drive shaft locks up, it can absolutely be over 6 g's! It's amazing to try to process when you're getting almost 280 mph at or before half track and then it starts accelerating harder than it did at the hit of the throttle!
Dude. I've been to the Thunder Valley Nationals three times in Bristol. One of the BIGGEST examples of pure badassery you will ever feel,see,and smell in your freaking life. Hell yeah. Nothing else even comes close! Freakin love it.🤘💯🔥💪
I have been going to Pomona Winter Nationals and the Finals since around 1973. The cars of course go faster each year. There was a period of time I did not attend any drag races from 1979 till the 1990s after Kenny B. broke the 300mph mark also they changed the stands from wood to aluminum. The first top fuel run I saw in maybe 95, I swear I thought I was having a seizure with my brain vibrating inside my skull , when the adrenaline rush subsided and I realized I was not going to need medical help I was hooked again. I can describe it to you, but I can't understand it for you. It is truly something you must witness for yourself to fully comprehend what 10-12,000 horsepower can be in an 8 cyl. 500 ci.in motor running on
Nitro- methane (originally used as a printing/ ink solvent)
early years in seattle i was at the finish line when they came through at 304 mph with front wheels off the ground
Growing up as a kid in Edmonton in the seventies I remember top fuel funny cars and dragsters hitting around 260 mile an hour. And I think there were somewhere around 5 second quarter miles. I'll never forget thinking that can't ever possibly be surpassed. But if you've never had a chance to experience one of these live, it's almost intimidating if not scary....in a very mind bendingly awesome way! Wonder if we'll ever be in the low 3's?....
I state, the todays Pro Mods are the funnycars of yesteryear. Also, so f*ckin' awesome.
Actually the cars would still be doing 4 or 5 seconds. They shortened the 1/4 mile from 1,320 feet to just 1,000 feet. So the times are all off now! Plus the NHRA has a restriction on the speed at 1,000 feet to not exceed 335 MPH. So top fuel is basically reached its peak. Like everything else these days; life was better in the 20th century. ✔️
Anyone who haven’t been to one needs to. That’s the take away from the video. I have and this is a bucket list experience.
They is nothing like it.been watch top fuel for 30 yrs tv one thing seen it live in person is a total experience .As for Scott Kalitta still bring a tear to my eye got to meet him in Australia when he was driving top fuel over here in 2005 and one of the nicest guys in drag racing. Would take time to talk to anyone.
Thanks for making this video! Finally a Top Fuel short documentary that does not abuse slow-motion takes that misrepresent the very sport they are trying to describe.
Wow! respect for the racers who control these infernal machines. they really have balls in their pants. amazing.
Yes, that's right. These racers are really american superheroes! Unbelievable how they can control with crazy speed 🤪 🙃🤪🙃🤪🙃 How COOL when a top fuel dragster throttle whack and flyby👍👌🙌
@@CoolCarTv I left you a subscription. i want to see more of it. I love it.
Yep... and then for a short time when they hit the throttle they wear them as earings...😉
And ovaries!
Thank god for these cars
The green fire.lol😊
Toxic rocket fuel 🐟☠
Hydrazine 🤣
Methanol
AWESOME!!! THANKS SO VERY MUCH FOR SHARING THAT WITH US!!!
Nice, Hope you enjoy!
@@CoolCarTv I really enjoy watching your videos and keep ‘em coming please!!!
I love it, some of those reaction times amazing 👍🏻
You do feel it when they launch you know it
If you've never experienced it YOU HAVE TO GO ! It's CRAZY
It’s just another car pretty much like any other just a bit louder a bit faster it’s noting that special
@@shorty808100 nothing like a Stock Car you must be meaning right. Similarities 0 that's part of it for me, iam a mechanic retired with a few chevy engines and some HOGS in the shed also got the SMOKEY book on my shelf well read too. We don't have Stock car racing in Australia ,got Dirt track but I go watch that every chance I get .
@@shorty808100 Nah, you don't just see them or hear them, you get to FEEL them. It's nothing even like alcohol dragsters, and those are the 2nd fastest dragsters.
I remember watching Shirley go up in flames. Was one of the rare times I got to see drags on TV. I searched out the movie about it after. long time ago man.
My brother says these funny cars ain’t that loud and he says it’s just a myth, wait until I take him to one!
@Telephaz Did you know the flames you see above the headers is not from the cylinder, that fuel is already gone, the flame is hydrogen burning in the separated Molecules from H2O atmospheric surrounding air.
@@u2mister17 Source/reference please.
Sorry, but I call BS!
@@thedubwhisperer2157 Watched a documentary. Also those engines were built to turn less than 8 thousand revolutions before needing rebuilt. 9 thousand for 4 seconds and they are done.
I wish I could buy a t-shirt that says this is a real drag queen with Shirley's face printed below!
You can't understand their power until your in the stands and can feel the power in your chest!!!!!
It feels so great and love how it tickles my ear drums💯💯💯👍👍👍
I thought that Concorde was loud until I attended a top fuel meeting. 😂
Sept 4, 2022 a top fuel car driven by Brittany Force at the US Nationals recorded a 299.73 mile per hour at the eighth mile clocks during a qualifying run. The newly formed 1/8 mile 300mph club almost had its first member.
That my friends is acceleration.
@SpaceAce100 no. That's just a spot where timers are. It's been a goal to hit 300 mph by there. I don't remember this pass, but I will go back and look for it.
Maybe before the year is out itll happen.
@SpaceAce100 no but 1/8 miles e.t. and speed timers have always been there, same as 60ft., 330ft. Still 1000' race.
@@slowpoke96Z28 maybe mamy cars are in the 290 to 295 range, but already going that fast to gain is pretty hard. Grubnic may be the tuner to do it.
@@jacksonmehoff4963 I think grubbie shot for it in Q3 this weekend.
7:10 I just couldn’t stop laughing when I saw her reaction 😂😂😂
Very informative... Respect to anyone willing to go to those G levels... Wow !!
Some of my fondest memories are of Gatornationals when I was a kid, its something else to be just dripping tears from all the alcohol in the air while these machines literally shake your skeleton under your skin. Everything feels like its vibrating, your eyes, nose, and throat burn, and then these things rip by so fast you can hardly keep pace with your eyes. Ive watched them take off into the air at over 200 miles and hour and come down as a little roll cage around the driver. If they get the slightest breeze under them they turn into a fighter jet without wings.
Agreed. I'm taking a friend of mine this weekend to Indy. He ain't seen it since Eddie Hill days. He b surprised this weekend.
How did it work out?
Top fuel is insane!!! I absolutely love it!!!
Been 100 times and every time just as exciting as the first..took my son to the gatornationals 2 yrs back, (13 then), his first time. Went to the pits for a proper top fuel indoctrination..we had a blast😁
2:32 I love hearing the run than the Holy Shit at the end !
Reminds me of my first times at the races at the Auto Club Speedway in Pomona as a youth 💨
Yes, Nice!
underrated af
Spectacular. It had to happen in America!
The one who is waiting for something doesn't wait to long!
You have to experience this in person. 11,000HP, a new Corvette makes 500HP, they use about 8 gallons of fuel for the burnout, staging and 1-1,000ft run. That's $45 a gallon of nitromethane which equals to about $400 per run. 0-60MPH in the time it takes to blink your eye and 0-100MPH is in the first 60 feet. They stopped running 1,320 feet because the tires would expand so much at that speed and would cause them to explode. The cars at idle are on the verge of hydro-lock. The burnouts are done at half fuel volume into the cylinders. Spark plugs stop working halfway down the track because they are fouled out due to so much fuel and power sent to the plugs. A Dodge Demon that makes 700HP and can't turn over the supercharger because it's so far over driven. The engines are rebuilt after each run and cost about $10,000 to rebuild. Tires usually last 3 runs. The clutch fuses together about 300 feet out. The most G forces isn't felt at launch, you actually feel the most G forces when the transmission fully engages at about 200 feet. The spark plugs see 44 amps and 60,000 volts in one spark. You could pass the start line, for a 1,000 foot race, at 200MPH and the dragster is sitting still, the dragster will pass you at half tack and beat you by a quarter track with you going 200MPH.
Really good video!!! Nice explanations and good to see measures in metric and imperial.
Thank you 👍
Excellent video 👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👊🏻however nobody gives you ear plugs or announces that it’s going to be loud lol not in NHRA LOL
Thank you 👍
All the car company's porche,Mercedes, audi Maclaren, the Veyron etc...have crazy fast cars until you see and hear one of these go down the track.😂
Great video TY !
"life begins & ends, god bless america"
bro that guy is going to win or die, his own crew chief even did the crucifix on his body. What a fucking legend. 5:54
I really like this kind of video clip. Thank you for bringing it to see.
Effin awesome video...great commentary plus awesome footage...What more could a person want?
Nice, thank you 👍
They damm near catch up with sound . Awasom .
Been to the local dragstrip once, they had the less powerful 3000 hp nitro rail cars and nothing in the world compares to the feeling of sitting on that starting line and they stomp on that peddle in anger.
Then you should expirence the real deal. It's on a whole 'nother level.
Yaaaaaaaaaaa buddy !!!! Smash it and thrash it!!!!!!!! More power!!!!!!!
Super tare 🎉
Great video. You know you're in America when at one of these events.
Thank you Sir 👍
Great primer for the sport.
🏆
My eyes are watery, and I'm not even exposed to methanol fumes 🔥❤️💪🏻
Yeah🥵🔥💥🚀
4:53 I never understood how those guys can stand there and not go deaf in an instant without ear plugs
6:49 love how that guy plays off his loss of hearing haha
A person must see them (in the flesh) to understand them. There are no words to describe the experience. Every gearhead reading this sport- SEE IT IN PERSON!!!
True. Had the luck of seeing Ida Zetterström pull the FIA top fuel European record in Santa Pod - UK. When she pulled into the lane and fired up... Holy crap. My entire body was vibrating with the sound and when she launched even my ear-pro failed because that shit hurt. Seeing that Swedish/Finnish flag on the record number was nice.
We are also so so so so close to see a 300 mph ⅛ mile pass! (And they are regularly doing it in less than 2.9 seconds now!) I really hope to see you at 340 mile an hour pass, after Robert what 339.87 in funny car a few years back, and again with the funny cars and the dragsters, changing the rev limiters, it's really good to see both classes hitting 335, 337 etc. It's what it needs to be the tires are good enough and I really I'm glad I don't hear much of the 300 should be the exception not the rule it's like no 330 needs to be the standard!
0:43 dragsters: RARARARARRARA *lights go off* BAAAÆANDNDKSNDNDKDDNBD YAAAAAS YAAAAAS
going to work by driving one of this car is guarantee joyfull
If you have never seen this live,,,,at the track..put it on your bucket list now,,,its amazing..
If you've never been to actually see, feel, hear and smell these hemi powered rolling rockets launch, you are missing out. Nothing else even comes close!!
Fantastic 💪💪👍👍🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
First clip is in the car park of the Berrimah pub in my hometown of Darwin, NT, big big occasion when the top fuelers come to town
That's the kind of sport yt prefers.
Gob bless Cha-Cha!
💃💃💃
To many, this is similar to moments of awakening? As you start to wake, you look around....I put my goggles on.... Green go. 💚
🏎️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Ohmygosh!!!
10,000 HP and even more ? i remember drag racing in the 1970`s = but now 50 years later ?
00:53 omg. Guys 372 mph in 4 sec is really insane, mind-blowing.
2:15 Whats that little chain link fence going to do to save anybody?
It just holds back the spactators.
Alan Johnson is the most successful crew chief that is still active. The most successful crew chief ever is Austin Coil.
Exelente compilación, exelente 👏👏👏👏
Thank you 👍
Cool for sure..... But comp eliminator is where the really cool stuffs at.😎🤘🏻👍
Love love
Thanks you for give a number of speed in km/h too
3:43 bro that fat guy on the moped got me dead
wow all these cars are so brutal
Thanks 👍
NOTHING IN THIS WORLD. SOUNDS AS BADASS AS A NITRO INJECTED HEMI .... HEMI BEING THE KEY WORD HERE .
Exactly Sir, amazing sounds!
Any full size v8 on nitro sounds sweet.
@@slowpoke96Z28 nothing sounds as badass as top fuel hemi stop being so stubborn
@@TonyStony you've obviously never heard a tall deck rat on 95% nitro.
@@curtisthomas16 Yes , and it's not even in the same zip code as a Chrysler hemi . All the current NHRA FUNNY & TOP FUEL ENGINS ARE BASED OFF OF IT FOR A REASON .. Even the chebby guy's are trying to copy them by putting hemi type heads of a chevy block . The hemi has a stronger bottom end . deep skirt block , then the roadapple
The crew not wearing double ear pro are going to be paying for it in the future
Yeah 🙌
Wow, thats a lot scary for some! John P.
The pits are awesome. Walking up to one starting in the pits you need to hold your nose n cover your eyes from the nitro fumes. But its cool.
I gotta be honest I love top fuel…but funny cars are where it’s at
When you're around one of these cars in the pits and its running you will never feel anything like that again.
Exactly Sir!
respect to these guys ear drums
love the sound of these cars
Devastating..🤤
Never seen it in real life but before I die I aim too
@@Muddicker great idea..👌
Watching Drag Racing in The 70s When Engines Were Not as Powerfull and a 1/4 mile at Santa Pod Raceway in Bedford England .Still Going at Race Meets .BUT Wow The Speed and Noise . One Day Love 2 Go 2 See NHRA ?
Everything will be changed through the time, especially in speed and engine technology that will make race cars faster and faster ⚡⚡⚡
Hammer 👍
I worked in an engine shop we built a 440 cubic inch big block stroker 15 to 1 compression on alcohol in a little Vega open headers tube frame yeah it was loud ran at 9:30 first time on the strip with a bad injection pump pedaling it
That one shot at the finish line is from the now closed P.B.I.R in Jupiter fI.
0:52 If you look closely enough the dragster on the left side went almost 600km/h ( It went 599km/h)
As a deaf person it shocks me to see how many people just take their hearing for granted just to look cool for a few seconds for lifelong deafness. Its sad really.
Use it or lose it ;)
To look cool?
you sound bitter😭
What ?
It's called hearing protection my guy, i.e. ear muffs and plugs rated for those noise levels just like you use when shooting firearms
i love america
Ultra glide!
The engine used in top fuel dragsters is a Chrysler Hemi V8 and dates all the way back to the 50's.
100mph in 0.8sec.. that makes absolutely no sense but, i love it!
Oh Yeah, we wish to be in cockpit 🔥🔥🔥
Ive known of scott kalitta's crash for years but why did they shorten the track to 1000' because of it? Now the last drag races ive been to were the 1999 U.S. Nationals in Indy so ive been out of going to them for a while.
one of those pistons make as much as I want in my car
Are they all using hemis ?
How does shortening the length of the run stop people from detonating their cars?
The tires are the craziest part in my opinion. We can always build stronger and stronger engines and transmissions but getting the power to the ground. . . That's the tricky part. How do those tires hold the ground with all that power? ? Crazy
When you see the green on them candles... Its probably running with some hydrazine 😂
Oh yeah, unbelievable moments if you can see these extreme “monster” top fuel dragsters start and run 😱😱😱
burning up head gaskets, copper burns green. the fuel is checked at the top end after every pass. nitro only.
eating a head gasket, Copper burn green. Noone uses Hydrazine