"Tim" wrote in message
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On Jun 24, 10:14 pm, lil abner wrote:
Tim wrote:
On Jun 24, 9:44 pm, lil abner wrote:
Canuck57 wrote:
On 24/06/2010 5:56 PM, Happy wrote:
1oz diesel fuel to 10gal of regular unleaded is what the man said,
reduces hydrocarbons and peps up your performance, was on the local
news
tonight, the guy has a patient on the formula but said he gives its
use
freely to the general public.
I wouldn't. 1oz probably isn't enought o do much harm, but I doubt it
would do any good.
Might try mixing some nitromethane and hydrazene in the tank.

I tried the nitromethane and it didn't work. When I was a kid I had a
Hodaka Ace 100 trail bike and I thought "real racers burn
nitromethane!" so I poured about half a can of cox model airplane
fuel int he tank.

lets just say it didn't run very well..

I often wondered but never tried it.
I remember the Dragsters ran the combination for a little while.
The fuel tanks were on the front then. You could watch the clear fumes
rrise from the cap. Once it stopped the stuff had formed a class A
explosive...not a good thing.
They poured the two, into the tank, as close to the race time as
possible. i can't rememer any incidents, right off but I'm sure there
were a couple of unexpected detonations.
you've heard the hammer, of a real hemi,...the bark of alcohol and the
detonation of nitro? That mix was a little more robust.
They burn so much nitro I don't see how the pistons have any room to
compress.

The supercharger makes up the difference. It's amazing how much it
costs to get that kind of horsepower in a modern drag engine. It also
amazes me that the blower can pull up to 400 hp, and the engine still
puts out about 12,000! Not very long of course, and they also will
run through the nitromethane at the rate of about 30 gallons in 6
seconds. You can't pour it out of a bucket that fast.

Takes one cylinder to run the blower. They are putting out about 8000 hp,
and 1000 goes to the blower. They are running near hydrolock with all the
air and fuel in the cylinder.