I was wondering when Honda was going to get on the retro-revival bandwagon... although to be fair they still make the Tranny so perhaps that makes all the other companies laggards.
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I was wondering when Honda was going to get on the retro-revival bandwagon... although to be fair they still make the Tranny so perhaps that makes all the other companies laggards.
Cheers,
Colin
Originally Posted by Steve McQueen
Forum whore
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/at...2&d=1264528433
Edit, I may have posted one of these before. still cool. Not an adv bike but still cool.
I mentioned vegetables once, but I think I got away with it...........
Forum whore
Not bike related but cool anyway.
Some quite amazing statistics.
You don't have to be a drag racing fan to appreciate these statistics.
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 ½ gallons of nitro per second, the same rate of fuel consumption as a fully loaded 747, but with 4 times the energy density.
-The supercharger takes more power to drive then a stock hemi makes.
-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 nitro methane measures 7050 degrees F.
-Nitro methane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the exhaust stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from
atmospheric water vapour by the searing exhaust gases.
-Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After ½ 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 crank) that sometimes cam lobes are ground offset from front to rear to re-phase the valve timing somewhere closer to synchronisation 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 ½ 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.
-Top Fuel Engines ONLY turns 540 revolutions from light to light!
-The redline is actually quite high at 9500rpm.
-To give you an idea of this acceleration, the current TF dragster elapsed time record is 4.477 seconds for the quarter mile.
-This means that you could be coming across the starting line in your average Lingenfelter powered "twin-turbo" Corvette at 200 mph (on a FLYING START) and the dragster would BEAT you to the finish line FROM A DEAD STOP in a Quarter mile distance!
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I mentioned vegetables once, but I think I got away with it...........
Forum whore
cant comprehend that
I aint bovvered
But some knobblies on it & then we'll see if it's cool.
Hardcore Biker
If the Corvette was doing the flying 1/4 starting at 200mph the top fuel dragster would still win
200mph = 200/3600 miles per SECOND x 4.477 second top fuel record = 0.248 m = less than a 1/4 mile
Crikey!
Armature speller
You're not a teacher are you?
I aint bovvered
Man that's impressive!!
The maths that is.
Just heard of a condition called calculexia or something where you aren't able to calculate things. I reckon I've got a case of that.
I aint bovvered
This is Shmerels baby just finished. (Off Aussie section ADV rider)
Stunning
Forum whore
Very cool.
I mentioned vegetables once, but I think I got away with it...........
Curmudgeon
Sheryl is one of the biggest jerks on the Interweb.
His bike is pretty cool though.
I aint bovvered
I don't think he'll hear ya over here thoYa may have to shout a bit louderer
Curmudgeon
Don't you worry, I've had discussions with him...I don't think he'll hear ya over here tho
There was a bit of a hows-yer-father when he had the Adv Mascot.
At one stage I threatened to shove Pooey up his fundamental orifice...
Hardcore Biker
Back to the regular scheduled programming
KiwiSafariTeam
GO BRO GO
Armature speller
The seat looks ...comfortable...
Otherwise very nicely laid out.
Even the chain is on the proper side.
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