0-100 MPH in no seconds...just 1.

[Cruzz563]

http://www.bankspower.com/mercedes-pro-mod.cfm

[haha604]

It must be pretty hard to find a driver that can handle that monster .

[logo]

I can, psssht thats easy stuff

[Phix]

That... actually scares me. 2500bhp in a 28lb body. Wow.

[bone]

those are some big ass turbo's

cool it's a mercedes, you don't see that very often

[haz]

haz

[Renesis]

holy shitttttttttt!

[idletask]

Hmmyeah. Can this thing go around corners?

[justin syder]

Can this thing go around corners?

Im sure it could...if you have a deathwish.

[Phix]

Originally Posted by haz

haz

Abomination!

[Dark_Templer_102]

Mommy...

has anyone heard of the term "overkill" well..heres the defination

[WheatKing]

it's only 2500hp..

Guess you guys on the other side of the pond don't follow NHRA much eh?

right now the fastest quarter mile trap time (elapsed time from start to finish) is 4.441 seconds.. the fastest trap speed (averaged speed from the 1/8th to the finish of the 1/4) is 333.41 MPH..

for prostock.. in which this car competes.. John Force holds the records.. a 4.665 second 1/4 mile at 333.58 MPH

and no.. they don't corner well..

as for diesel speed..

http://www.cumminsracing.com/

they just set the 1/4 record.. a 7.98 second at 167.53 MPH..

Dodge cummins diesel motor.. running bigger turbos.. and around 80psi of boost..

[Viper007Bond]

0-100 in less than a second? That must be INSANE G's...

[WheatKing]

FYI.. taken from http://www.automobilemag.com/columns...mericandriver/

probably around 6g's accelleration.. not even close to top fuel.

the most common injury in drag racing is retina seperation..

it happens when the chutes open.. the negative g's are so intense that the retina will move foward and sepearte from the eye.

I think top gear needs to test the theory of the vette and the fueler

I once chatted briefly with the late Peter Gregg at a Porsche Club function, and I mentioned that the Mercedes-Benz I was driving that weekend was a lovely road car and a wonderful cruiser, but it lacked really startling acceleration. Peter gave me a sidelong glance and said, "It's been my experience that straight-line acceleration is probably the first aspect of automotive performance that any intelligent driver gets bored with." Ever since that day, probably thirty years ago, his statement has crossed my mind as I nailed the throttle in some Porsche 911 Turbo or Mercedes-Benz S600 and giggled like an idiot.

It crossed my mind again when I received the following e-mail, forwarded from my great friend Mr. William Neely. Bill Neely and I have been enjoying each other's company since I first took over Car and Driver magazine in 1962. Since that time, he has written about a jillion magazine pieces and some three dozen books, including Stand on It, the fictional memoirs of the infamous Stroker Ace, which he cowrote with our mutual friend the late Bob Ottum. Here is the e-mail:

Subject: Top Fuel Dragsters
One Top Fuel dragster's 500-cubic-inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than the first four rows at the Daytona 500.

A stock Dodge Hemi V-8 engine cannot produce enough power to 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 ig-nition. Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock at full throttle.

At the stoichiometric 1.7:1 air-fuel mixture for nitromethane, the flame front temperature measures about 7000 degrees Fahrenheit.

Nitromethane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, separated from atmospheric water vapor by the searing heat of the 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 can be totally consumed during a single pass. After half-distance, the engine is dieseling from compression plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1400 degrees Fahrenheit. The engine is shut down by cutting the fuel flow.

If a spark plug fails early in the run, un-burned nitro can build up in the affected cylinder and explode with sufficient force to blow the cylinder head off in pieces or split the cylinder block in half.

In order to exceed 300 mph in 4.5 seconds, dragsters must accelerate at an average of more than 4 g's. In order to reach 200 mph before half-distance, the launch acceleration approaches 8 g's. A Top Fuel dragster reaches more than 300 mph before you have completed reading this sentence.

With a redline that can be as high as 9500 rpm, Top Fuel engines turn approximately 540 revolutions from light to light. Including the burnout, the engine needs to survive only 900 revolutions under load.

Assuming that all of the equipment is paid off, the crew works gratis, and nothing breaks, each run costs an estimated $1000 per second.

The current Top Fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.441 seconds for the quarter-mile (October 5, 2003, Tony Schumacher). The top-speed record is 333.25 mph as measured over the last 66 feet of the quarter-mile (November 9, 2003, Doug Kalitta).

Putting all of this into perspective: You are driving the average $140,000 Lingenfelter twin-turbo Corvette Z06. More than a mile up the road, a Top Fuel dragster is staged and ready to launch down a measured quarter-mile as you pass. You have the advantage of a flying start. You run the Vette 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, but you hear a brutal whine that sears your eardrums, and within three seconds, the dragster catches you and beats you to the finish line, a quarter-mile from where you just passed him. From a standing start, the dragster spotted you 200 mph and not only caught you but nearly blasted you off the road when he passed you within a mere 1320 feet.

That doesn't sound too excruciatingly boring, now, does it? I called my equally good friend Don Prieto, of the Prietive Group in Torrance, California, to check the facts. He suggested that the business about heat from dragster exhaust igniting the hydrogen in the atmosphere was probably hypothetical.

Prieto then reminded me of a factoid he had passed along in the days of front-engined dragsters. He said, "You know that you're in deep trouble in a dragster if you can suddenly see things clearly. That means the supercharger has been blown off the top of the engine and the raw nitromethane fuel has eaten through your visor."

Prieto has written a terrific history of hot rods called Hot Rod Chronicle, and if anybody can capture all of that, it would be my pal Prieto. The book is beautiful as well as instructive, published by Publications International Ltd. Well worth your attention.

[Phix]

That was an interesting read. Thanks for sharing.

[WheatKing]

If you ever get a chance.. go to a NHRA or IHRA drag race..

you can get into the stands by the wall near the launch pad..

when they fire up the dragster on the line.. the nitro makes your eyes water.. and it's quite loud..

then when they do the burnout. it's really loud..

when they leave the line.. it's INSANELY loud.. the smell of nitro and burnt rubber..

unbelievable experience..

my friend was lucky enough to take a NHRA license course.. he obtained a license to run 7 seconds or faster.. and he got to drive a 1500hp rail car to do it..

anyone that says drag racing is boring.. has never been to the track. .or driven a real dragster..

no one cares about cornering when your doin 0-300mph in 4 seconds.. HAHAH

just for reference.. a dragster out accelerates the US space shuttle on launch.

[Phix]

Yeah, well, I find drag racing extremely boring when watching it on T.V.... but I guess shit like that is really exciting in person as is with most everything.

And that retina seperation thing scares the hell out of me.... does that mean you're permanetely blind because of that?

[WheatKing]

no.. it heals with time

[MPower]

Insane... if they can prove it.

[v0od0o]

Originally Posted by Viper007Bond

0-100 in less than a second? That must be INSANE G's...

Can any human being stand that? Someone said it's 5gs and the article said pilots blackout at 4.5 to 5gs, so who can drive that thing??
And retina separation!!? omg
They should invent a robot to drive these things and it would be the first robot sport ever ppl should just watch, and from a distance