Drag racing

[tefl]

Anyone here like Drag Racing in Oz? If so what part of Oz is best for the sport?
Thanks.
Sue

[chunder]

Can't stand it myself I'm afraid but there is a drag strip here in WA - Kwinana multiplex.

[Colonial]

In Sydney there are a few spots.

The most well known is WSID (Western Sydney International Dragway) at Eastern Creek. usual stuff. Eastern Creek raceway, for real drivers, is next door.

The other spots are in industrial areas and don't have staging lights.

I prefer real motorsport personally

[tefl]

Colonial said:

In Sydney there are a few spots.

The most well known is WSID (Western Sydney International Dragway) at Eastern Creek. usual stuff. Eastern Creek raceway, for real drivers, is next door.

The other spots are in industrial areas and don't have staging lights.

I prefer real motorsport personally

Thanks for the info Guys
Think drag racers are real racers when you look at this!:-

Some interesting Top Fuel dragster facts:

* One dragster's 500-inch Hemi makes more horsepower then the first 8 rows at Daytona
* Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 1 1/2 gallons of nitro per second, the same rate of fuel consumption as a fully loaded 747 but with 4 times the energy volume.
* The supercharger takes more power to drive than a stock hemi makes.
* Even with nearly 3000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into nearly-solid form before ignition. Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock.
* Dual magnetos apply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of an arc welder in each cylinder.
* At stoichiometric (exact) 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture (for nitro), the flame front of nitromethane measures 7050 degrees 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.
* Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After 1/2 way, the engine is dieseling from compression-plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1400 degrees F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting off its fuel flow.
* If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up in those cylinders and then explodes with a force that can blow cylinder heads off the block in pieces or blow the block in half.
* Dragsters twist the crank (torsionally) so far (20 degrees in the big end of the track) that sometimes cam lobes are ground offset from front to rear to re-phase the valve timing somewhere closer to synchronization with the pistons.
* To exceed 300mph in 4.5 seconds dragsters must accelerate at an average of over 4G's. But in reaching 200 mph well before 1/2 track, launch acceleration is closer to 8G's.
* If all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, and for once NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs $1000.00 per second.
* Dragsters reach over 300 miles per hour before you have read this sentence.

Amazing the details that come to light with such a highly squeezed engine...

[chunder]

Tefl,

Very interesting facts - just not my cup of tea drag racing, same as oval racing or speedway or drifting - each to their own though as it does seem to have a reasonable following here.

[road_terrorist]

tefl said:

Anyone here like Drag Racing in Oz? If so what part of Oz is best for the sport?
Thanks.
Sue

It's quite popular all over, pretty much all the major cities have at least one main drag strip each with regular events held for everything from top fuel to street cars, illegal drag racing is also alive and well despite endless police attempts to shut it down.