[AT] OT: Acceleration defined

[steve smith]

Faster than the average Cub. LOL
Smitty

At 10:33 PM 5/3/04 -0400, you wrote:
>This is the best definition I've ever seen!
>
>A Definition of Acceleration.
>
>  * One Top Fuel dragster 500 cubic inch Hemi engine
>makes more horsepower than the first 4 rows of
>  NASCARS at the Daytona 500.
>
>* Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes
>1-1/2 gallons of nitromethane per second; a fully
>loaded 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate 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 for nitromethane,
>the flame front temperature measures 7,050 deg F.
>
>* Nitromethane burns yellow. The spectacular white
>flame seen above the stacks at night is raw burning
>hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric water vapor
>by the searing 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 degrees F. The engine can
>only be shut down by cutting the fuel flow.
>
>* If spark momentarily fails early in the run,
>unburned nitro builds up in the affected cylinders
>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 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
>estimated $1,000.00 per second.
>
>* The current Top Fuel dragster elapsed time record is
>4.441 seconds for the quarter mile (10/05/03, Tony Schumacher).
>The top speed record is 333.00 mph.
>(533 km/h) as measured over the last 66' of the run
>(09/28/03 Doug Kalitta).
>
>  --------------------------------------
>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 past 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 4.5 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.
>
>... and that my friend, is ACCELERATION!
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