Top Fuel Fun Facts

Minor nit, the air/fuel ratio on a top fuel engine is 1.7 to 1, not 17 to 1. Gasoline is actually MORE volatile that nitro, but can only be run @ ~14.5 to 1 a/f ratio, but with nitro, you can get 8 times the fuel into the cylinder, thus mucho more power.

I also thought that the stat of the engine only turning over 540 times in the qtr mile was wrong, but as top fuelers are limited to 8400 rpm, I did the math, and on a 4.43 second run(qtr mile, which is not even done right now, 100 feet is the current length) time the 8400 equals about 600 revs.


Amazing facts, thanks for posting them

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