The Car or Thing that gets you Inspired Thread

[Jarred]

looking good P dogg. all the signage has come up a treat and looks great.

i still remember sitting in it! that was incredible. if only it was running at the time

[Preen59]

looking good P dogg. all the signage has come up a treat and looks great.

i still remember sitting in it! that was incredible. if only it was running at the time

Cheers dude.

[alex g]

that thing is amazing bro, havent really comented on it yet but all the work you have done and the end result is massive,you and the crew should be well proud of it.

it would be so menacing hitting it from that driving position , with those rear tyres in your face, screaming exhaust and fuel all over you and watching those front runners float around.

was chatting with a workmate who has a blown ls1 and runs 11's and asked him about fuel rates for top fuelers, ie how much fuel do they drink on a pass? he wasnt sure but we concurred it would be a ****load


great work

[rayray086]

Looking pretty damn awesome Preeny!

[Preen59]

that thing is amazing bro, havent really comented on it yet but all the work you have done and the end result is massive,you and the crew should be well proud of it.

it would be so menacing hitting it from that driving position , with those rear tyres in your face, screaming exhaust and fuel all over you and watching those front runners float around.

was chatting with a workmate who has a blown ls1 and runs 11's and asked him about fuel rates for top fuelers, ie how much fuel do they drink on a pass? he wasnt sure but we concurred it would be a ****load


great work

Thanks mate. I find it hard to appreciate it a lot of the time because i only see the imperfections. And we've been working on it for so long that it seems less impressive now. But i still love it!

Early stuff like what we've got run 21 USgallon/min vane fuel pumps (392cui). The newer engines run a different and more complicated fuel system with 2 gear pumps and they flow 80 gallon/min (500cui). An engine like ours should produce between 2000 and 2500 horsepower. The modern engines make around about 8000hp.

Our engine will burn about 3 gallons of 85% in about 5 minutes of "Cackling". Idling on the methanol warmup bottle it will suck up 10 litres in a few minutes. You can pretty much see the level dropping.

AFR for complete combustion is about 1.3:1 as opposed to petrol which is about 14.7:1 and methanol at (don't quote me) around 8:1. So yeah.. it's like tipping a bucket at WOT.

[AGO41T]

[Preen59]

Oh Ray.. So mean!

[AGO41T]

Oh Ray.. So mean!

nahhhhhhhhhhh! not mean at all.. i love hot pink polo GTi's

[16v_kid]

[rayray086]

Hahaha that's great - is that a real ad?

[Whubbsie]

EWWWWWWW

[Spyda]

Early stuff like what we've got run 21 USgallon/min vane fuel pumps (392cui). The newer engines run a different and more complicated fuel system with 2 gear pumps and they flow 80 gallon/min (500cui). An engine like ours should produce between 2000 and 2500 horsepower. The modern engines make around about 8000hp.

To sum it up:
2500hp
8000hp
79 L/min
302 L/min

Way to say "stuff you global warming!"

Thouse numbers are inspirational.

[mikepologti]

pink ........ shudders ........gahhhayyy

[gareth_oau]

Thouse numbers are inspirational.

or Expirational?

[MattyT]

I have long wondered if car manufacters and/or exhaust system makers considered the sonic & resonate properties of their exhausts and tuned them appropriately. You can almost think of a cars exhaust like a musical instrument!