This weekend at U12. Sounds like the whole Hee-Haw gang will be there.

Looks like a couple Richard Petty fans. (she still has her shirt on)

L-19, I think Richard Petty had Number 43, Dale Earnhardt had Number 3, this being NASCAR of course.

WWhunter wrote:L-19, I think Richard Petty had Number 43, Dale Earnhardt had Number 3, this being NASCAR of course.

Keith, I think you missed my attempt at a humorous caption...
Where might the '4' be? Lol

Anyone got a time on when this is gonna happen ???

Stol wrote:Anyone got a time on when this is gonna happen ???

Usually around ten is when they start racing. Sometimes the weather messes with them but they usually run even if they have to wait for it to dry up. Last years BBQ was as good as they make in Texas, I'm hoping he comes back. A special feature this year is someone tied a $2 million dollar Piper Meridian down 50 feet from the end of the run out, I'm sure the owner has no idea of what's to come. A month ago, they had a big Pioneer Days celebration there with fireworks that burned down the local sawmill the next day On the Sabbath no less . A million dollar insurance battle pending on that one.

Hmmm, and there is some kind of classic car show in Alpine.....I'll see which way looks best weatherwise.

Nosedragger wrote: A special feature this year is someone tied a $2 million dollar Piper Meridian down 50 feet from the end of the run out, I'm sure the owner has no idea of what's to come. A month ago, they had a big Pioneer Days celebration there with fireworks that burned down the local sawmill the next day On the Sabbath no less . A million dollar insurance battle pending on that one.

More info on this story please Sounds funny -

SixTwoLeemer wrote:

Nosedragger wrote: A special feature this year is someone tied a $2 million dollar Piper Meridian down 50 feet from the end of the run out, I'm sure the owner has no idea of what's to come. A month ago, they had a big Pioneer Days celebration there with fireworks that burned down the local sawmill the next day On the Sabbath no less . A million dollar insurance battle pending on that one.

More info on this story please Sounds funny -

Well, it's not funny to the sawmill owners or the fire dept. but it's a little funny to those of us that don't have a dog in the hunt. Pioneer Days is when all the Utards come up to visit their kinfolk around here and have a big parade, rodeo, picnics etc. They wrap it up at the fairgrounds (co-located with the airport) on Saturday night with a big fireworks show, then they hug and part ways after Sunday meeting at the temple. The fire department sets off the morters but they're just a bunch of volunteers like most small town firemen and really know nothing about professional fireworks. Since this is a big deal for St Anthony, cars were parked along every highway coming into town and all of them downwind of "the show" were covered with spent, charred fireworks.

Sunday morning about 11 when everyone is at the temple the fire blows up at the planer mill, by the time suits and ties were ditched, helmets donned and firetrucks arrived the place was fully engulfed. The fire department put out the fire, found the cause to be "inconclusive" and beat a hasty retreat. I've been asked not to share what the fire investigators from the insurance company found but it's going to be hard for the fire dept. insurance to do anything except pay up. All that to say: I wonder if anyone in city government knows how expensive that Piper in the middle of the hotrods is?

Hmmm... Lets hope some racer doesn't do a re-enactment of Scott Kalitta's ' end of track' episode. That will turn out to be a VERY expensive catch fence..

Ben.

L-19,
LMAO!!! Okay, I get it! I guess I was a little slow yesterday. Somedays the 'ol mind just doesn't work the way its suppose to.....and that happens more frequently then I would like.
WW

Lest you think drag racing is all about the Funnel Cake:

Definition of Acceleration One top fuel dragster 500 cubic inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than the first 4 rows of stock cars at the Daytona 500. Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 1-1/2 gallons of nitro methane per second; a fully loaded 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate with 25% less energy being produced. A stock Dodge Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to drive the dragster's supercharger. With 3,000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into a near-solid form before ignition. Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock at full throttle. At the stoichiometric (stoichiometry: methodology and technology by which quantities of reactants and products in chemical reactions are determined) 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture of nitro methane, the flame front temperature measures 7,050 deg F. Nitro methane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the stacks at night is raw burning bydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric water vapor by the searing 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 are totally consumed during a pass. After halfway, the engine is dieseling from compression, plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1,400 deg F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting the fuel flow. If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up in the affected cylinders and then explodes with sufficient force to blow cylinder heads off the block in pieces or split the block in half. In order to exceed 300 mph in 4.5 seconds, dragsters must accelerate an average of over 4G's. In order to reach 200 mph (well before half-track), the launch acceleration approaches 8G's. Dragsters reach over 300 mph before you have completed reading this sentence. Top fuel engines turn approximately 540 revolutions from light to light! Including the burnout, the engine must only survive 900 rivolutions under load. The redline is actually quite high at 9,500 rpm. Assuming all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, and for once NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs an estimate $1,000.00 per second. The current top fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.441 seconds for the quarter mile. The top speed record is 333.00 mph as measured over the last 66 feet of the run. Putting all of this into prespective: You are driving the average $140,000 Lingenfelter "twin-turbo" powered Corvette Z06. Over a mile up the road, a top fuel dragster is staged and ready to launch down a quarter mile strip as you pass. You have the advantage of a flying start. You run the Vette hard up through the gears and blast across the starting line and pass 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 hard, but you hear an incredibly brutal whine that sears your eardrums and within 3 seconds, the dragster catches and passes you. He beats you to the finish line, a quarter mile away from where you just passed him. Think about it, from a standing start, the dragster had spotted you 200 mph and not only caught, but nearly blasted you off the road when he passed you within a mere 1,320 foot long race course. ....And that my friends, is Acceleration! Did I hear someone wanted to build a 350 with an all out cam? .. .

And where it gets interesting, is when you realize the fire department chief goes to the same church, (wait a minute... I re-read the part about ditching the suits and ties, you already covered that!!)and may be just a bit biased in their conclusion. Man oh man that is a classic tale of how things work in small town Idaho, and the dragster info was awesome also! I made it as far as some gravel bar landings in Blackfoot, but got home before the wind came back up.

Man oh man, I'm having a hard time keeping my coffee off the screen reading this one. Utards? Had to look that up. How dare you insult our gentile neighbors to the north. Anyway, having an interesting morning, I needed a good guffaw.
<edit> wait a minute, the Utards are on my righ standing up with Idaho at my head. Is that term in common use around the Orrin Hatch compound? Geographically challenged today. <end edit one>

Carry on
Emory

Nosedragger wrote:Well, it's not funny to the sawmill owners or the fire dept. but it's a little funny to those of us that don't have a dog in the hunt. Pioneer Days is when all the Utards come up to visit their kinfolk around here and have a big parade, rodeo, picnics etc. They wrap it up at the fairgrounds (co-located with the airport) on Saturday night with a big fireworks show, then they hug and part ways after Sunday meeting at the temple. The fire department sets off the morters but they're just a bunch of volunteers like most small town firemen and really know nothing about professional fireworks. Since this is a big deal for St Anthony, cars were parked along every highway coming into town and all of them downwind of "the show" were covered with spent, charred fireworks.

Sunday morning about 11 when everyone is at the temple the fire blows up at the planer mill, by the time suits and ties were ditched, helmets donned and firetrucks arrived the place was fully engulfed. The fire department put out the fire, found the cause to be "inconclusive" and beat a hasty retreat. I've been asked not to share what the fire investigators from the insurance company found but it's going to be hard for the fire dept. insurance to do anything except pay up. All that to say: I wonder if anyone in city government knows how expensive that Piper in the middle of the hotrods is?

Good story...that was funny Hey wait a minute, I'm a Utard with kinsfolk in Swan Valley Come to think of it.. we almost burned down Karl Malon'e ranch their a few summer ago

I was thinking that the Meridian may have gotten torched but I'm glad it survived.

[quote="Nosedragger"]Lest you think drag racing is all about the Funnel Cake:

Definition of Acceleration One top fuel dragster 500 cubic inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than the first 4 rows of stock cars at the Daytona 500.]

Actually a good NASCAR restrictor plate motor makes about 430- 440 HP so it would take the first 9 rows of a very strong field of stock cars to equal the HP of a top fuel motor. 440 X 18 = 7920 HP.... Other then that you are right on in your description of the facts involved in drag racing...... Most people cannot fathom the amount of fuel that is used by a nitro burning motor.. And a state of the art teflon lined supercharger takes about 1100 HP just to drive it.

Ben....

Stol wrote:

Nosedragger wrote:Lest you think drag racing is all about the Funnel Cake:

Definition of Acceleration One top fuel dragster 500 cubic inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than the first 4 rows of stock cars at the Daytona 500.]

Actually a good NASCAR restrictor plate motor makes about 430- 440 HP so it would take the first 9 rows of a very strong field of stock cars to equal the HP of a top fuel motor. 440 X 18 = 7920 HP.... Other then that you are right on in your description of the facts involved in drag racing...... Most people cannot fathom the amount of fuel that is used by a nitro burning motor.. And a state of the art teflon lined supercharger takes about 1100 HP just to drive it.

Ben....

Actually, I'm ignorant of both sports but I'm surprised Nascar motors aren't more powerful. 440hp? My pickup makes more ponies than that.

I stopped by the races today at lunchtime and they were just getting ready to run. I guess the Ag pilot had 4-5 loads to spread before they could set up their tree. They notified me but not him apparently. They used to just surprise all of us until I showed up at daylight one morning, already briefed and filed for a meeting in CA, plane checked out and fueled the night before. I hesitated 4-5 seconds before I hooked a towrope to my pickup and skidded the bleachers out from in front of the hanger door . The screeching of aluminum on asphalt turned out an early morning crowd of overnighters quicker than Reveille at bootcamp . I was polite but direct about my intention of opening my flight plan in 15 minutes . They tore down their starting setup and had me gone in no time but I now get a call a few days before a race.

Nosedragger wrote: The current top fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.441 seconds for the quarter mile. The top speed record is 333.00 mph as measured over the last 66 feet of the run. Putting all of this into prespective: You are driving the average $140,000 Lingenfelter "twin-turbo" powered Corvette Z06. Over a mile up the road, a top fuel dragster is staged and ready to launch down a quarter mile strip as you pass. You have the advantage of a flying start. You run the Vette hard up through the gears and blast across the starting line and pass 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 hard, but you hear an incredibly brutal whine that sears your eardrums and within 3 seconds, the dragster catches and passes you.

Assuming the above speeds the dragster beats the Vette to the line by a tenth of a second, which is a 48 foot gap, three Vette lengths.

Bonanza Man wrote:

Nosedragger wrote: The current top fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.441 seconds for the quarter mile. The top speed record is 333.00 mph as measured over the last 66 feet of the run. Putting all of this into prespective: You are driving the average $140,000 Lingenfelter "twin-turbo" powered Corvette Z06. Over a mile up the road, a top fuel dragster is staged and ready to launch down a quarter mile strip as you pass. You have the advantage of a flying start. You run the Vette hard up through the gears and blast across the starting line and pass 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 hard, but you hear an incredibly brutal whine that sears your eardrums and within 3 seconds, the dragster catches and passes you.

Assuming the above speeds the dragster beats the Vette to the line by a tenth of a second, which is a 48 foot gap, three Vette lengths.

Note to self: Get Bonanza man on the phone if you ever need a lifeline on a math story problem.

Nosedragger wrote:

Stol wrote:

Nosedragger wrote:Lest you think drag racing is all about the Funnel Cake:

Definition of Acceleration One top fuel dragster 500 cubic inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than the first 4 rows of stock cars at the Daytona 500.]

Actually a good NASCAR restrictor plate motor makes about 430- 440 HP so it would take the first 9 rows of a very strong field of stock cars to equal the HP of a top fuel motor. 440 X 18 = 7920 HP.... Other then that you are right on in your description of the facts involved in drag racing...... Most people cannot fathom the amount of fuel that is used by a nitro burning motor.. And a state of the art teflon lined supercharger takes about 1100 HP just to drive it.

Ben....

Actually, I'm ignorant of both sports but I'm surprised Nascar motors aren't more powerful. 440hp? My pickup makes more ponies than that.

:

The devil is in the details.... A restrictor plate motor they run at Daytona and Talladega are detuned ALOT... The motors they run in all the other tracks are called "open" motors and the HP on those are in the 830 - 840 or so range and twist @ 10,000 rpms....