goes2fast

And she's patriotic! :rofl:

A girl with a great sense of humor, I like it!

Now that's the way to do yard work! :thumbup:

500 ci, I think. :confused:

Try the very first line again. :geek:

Go back and read it again, this time pay attention!

Here is some trivia to think about next time you think your car is fast! new E.T. record in a 1000 feet is 3.7 something!!!! Acceleration explained........... * One Top Fuel dragster outfitted with a 500 cubic-inch replica Dodge (actually Keith Black, etc) Hemi engine makes more horsepower (8,000 HP) than the first 4 rows of cars at NASCAR's Daytona 500. * Under full throttle, a dragster engine will consume 11.2 gallons of nitro methane per second; a fully loaded Boeing 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate but with 25% less energy being produced. * A stock Dodge Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to merely drive the dragster's supercharger. * With 3000 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 lockup at full throttle. * At the stoichiometric 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture for nitro methane the flame front temperature measures 7050 degrees F. * Nitro methane 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. Which is typically the output of an electric arc welder in each cylinder. * Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After 1/2 way thru the run, the engine is 'dieseling' from compression and the glow of the exhaust valves at 1400 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 enough force to blow the cylinder heads off the block in pieces or split the block in half !! * Dragsters reach over 300 MPH +... before you have completed reading this sentence. * In order to exceed 300 MPH in 4.5 seconds, a dragster must accelerate an average of over 4 G's. In order to reach 200 MPH well before reaching half-track, at launch the acceleration approaches 8 G's. * 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 9500 RPM. * THE BOTTOM LINE: Assuming all the equipment is paid for, the pit crew is working for free, & NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run will cost an estimated $1,000 per second. 0 to 100 MPH in .8 seconds (the first 60 feet of the run) 0 to 200 MPH in 2.2 seconds (the first 350 feet of the run) 6 g-forces at the starting line (nothing accelerates faster on land) 6 negative g-forces upon deployment of twin 'chutes at 300 MPH An NHRA Top Fuel Dragster accelerates quicker than any other land vehicle on earth . . quicker than a jet fighter plane . . . quicker than the space shuttle....or snapping your fingers !! The current Top Fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.420 seconds for the quarter-mile (2004, Doug Kalitta). The top speed record is 337.58 MPH as measured over the last 66' of the run (2005, Tony Schumacher). Let's now put this all into perspective: Imagine this...........You are driving a new $140,000 Lingenfelter twin-turbo powered Corvette Z-06. Over a mile up the road, a Top Fuel dragster is staged & ready to 'launch' down a quarter-mile s trip as you pass. You have the advantage of a flying start. You run the 'Vette hard, on up through the gears and blast across the starting line & pass the dragster at an honest 200 MPH.... The 'tree' goes green for both of you at that exact moment. The dragster departs & starts after you. You keep your foot buried hard to the floor, and suddenly you hear an incredibly brutally screaming whine that seares and pummels your eardrums & within a mere 3 seconds the dragster effortlessly catches & 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 it not only caught, but nearly blasted you off the planet when he passed you within a mere 1320 foot long race !!!! That, my friends.....is acceleration. Don't tell me that we as humans will not reach the speed of light at some point in time.

Yea, it was the last race before they paved the last section, the next year was the first race without any dirt. It will never be the same. There is family history for me there, my great, great uncle raced there in the late 20s and early 30s with a 1927 Chevy speedster. I used to have a pic of it sitting in front of his dealership in Alt Colorado, but my ex managed to loose it for me. More family history lost! :mad:

I hope we are going to get video, and results right after?

Way cool! That's a much different car than what he was driving last time I went a couple of years ago.

It's begging to be done Mr. Bean style, with a big paddlock on the door! :rofl:

Get a hold of yourself, one at a time, and finish what you started! You don't want to be like me, with a bunch of half finished projects! :w00t:

Ford 9 inch? If I do the CA18, I was thinking about a Ford 8 inch, figured light car, and same lug pattern, would work well.

Already have the aluminum radiator. I also have a 2JZ stuffed in a SC300, need to do a trans swap, and put my 6 speed limited diff in at the same time, I couldn't imagine that engine in a car as light as a 1200, it's scary fast in the heavy Lexus! That is why I'm putting the higher geared limited slip in, way too squirrely now!

If that was a re-post, then I missed it the first time, so THANKS! :D

What engine do you have? I want to put a CA18DET in mine, but don't know if I will ever be able to afford it. :crying:

Why is your car so heavy?

He told me he was investing so much time in making them, that he wasn't making hardly any money, I suggested raising the price enough to make it worth while, and see if there is still interest. There are universal kits out there that cost around $300, and they are not plug and play. You have to do a lot more wiring to install, and they don't look factory like the DZ.

Block huger headers will not work?

The key component is the whole kit! :blink: :hyper:

Unless Dave decides to make some more, they are all gone! I was going to get one for my 620, but no more. :wacko: :no:

Yes, very little interchanges.

On the other hand, try buying mounts for a 64 Fairlane! :confused:

Where do you get a 3.54 gear?

Cool! :thumbup: