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Top Alcohol Tidbits

You Got a Hemi there Mister?
Acceleration; Put Into Perspective


*One Top Alcohol Funnycar 526 cubic-inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than the first 2 rows at the Daytona 500.

*Under full throttle, a Funnycar engine consumes 2.5 gallons of Alcohol per second; a fully loaded Lear Jet consumes jet fuel at the same rate with 25% less energy being produced.

*A stock Dodge Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to merely drive the Funnycar's supercharger.

*With 4000 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 3.7:1 air/fuel mixture for Alcohol the flame front temperature measures 6050 degrees F.

*Alcohol burns clear. The spectacular white flame seen above the stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric water vapor by the searing exhaust gases.

*A magneto supplies 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of an arc welder in each cylinder.
 
*If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned alcohol 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.

*Funnycars reach over 250 MPH before you have completed reading this sentence.

*In order to exceed 250 MPH in 5.5 seconds, Funnycars must accelerate an average of over 4 G's. In order to reach 200 MPH well before half-track, the launch acceleration approaches 8 G's.

*A Funnycar's engine turns approximately 940 revolutions from light to light!

*Including the burnout, the engine must only survive 1500 revolutions under load.

*The redline is actually quite high at 10,500 RPM.

*THE BOTTOM LINE: Assuming all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, & for once, NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs an estimated $200 per second.

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