0-100kmph (62MPH) In 0.9 Seconds

[Richard A Thackeray]

Heck!!!, this thing makes the McMurtry look pedestrian!!
Would it have the range to do the Goodwood Hill-Climb?


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvoFemftA34

 

[ClichéGuevara]

It sounds like a scalextric.

Fast cars have to growl and deafen. FACT.

 

[lazybloke]

It sounds like a scalextric.

Fast cars have to growl and deafen. FACT.

Do you have a noisy freewheel?

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Do you have a noisy freewheel?

No, but I don't half grunt at speed.

 

[FishFright]

Still slower acceleration than a Top Fuel Dragster, 0-60 around 0.4. That's the average and not the record.

 

[lazybloke]

Still slower acceleration than a Top Fuel Dragster, 0-60 around 0.4. That's the average and not the record.

You need ear plugs to be anywhere near those things as they accelerate up the quarter mile strip. It still feels like your internal organs are being liquified!

 

[FishFright]

You need ear plugs to be anywhere near those things as they accelerate up the quarter mile strip. It still feels like your internal organs are being liquified!

The first time I heard them it redefined what loud was.

 

[Joffey]

It sounds like a scalextric.

Fast cars have to growl and deafen. FACT.

Electric is the future!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Still slower acceleration than a Top Fuel Dragster, 0-60 around 0.4. That's the average and not the record.

I’m just re-reading ’Thrust’, by Richard Noble
He writes about the (DERA) Missile Testing site, at Pendine Sands
A rocket-propelled ‘sled’, on a minature railway (1 mile long)
It’s quoted at a maximum speed of Mach 3.2
The model they tested for the ‘Thrust SSC’ team accelerated from 0-850MPH in 0.8 seconds!!!
(50g!!)

 

[fossyant]

It sounds like a scalextric.

Fast cars have to growl and deafen. FACT.

Big Scalextric ! Sounds like a washing machine on speed. No V12 wahhhh.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

You need ear plugs to be anywhere near those things as they accelerate up the quarter mile strip. It still feels like your internal organs are being liquified!

I thought I had a photograph of a page from (I think) 'Octane' that described the acceleration of a Top-Fueller
It was something along the lines of;
Imagine a fast car, crossing the start-line of a 1/4 mile strip at 186MPH (300kmPH)
As it crosses the start-line, the Top-Fueller sets off
The Top-Fueller still crosses the finish line first....................... 150MPH faster than its opponant

10,000+BHP is the oft-quoted figure, with nigh-on 500BHP taken to drive the supercharger
(isn't that still a bit of a guess, as strain-gauges can't cope with it?)
Titanium con-rods, so they have some 'flex' to contend with the almost liquid content of the combustion chamber