If you've never been, you have absolutely no clue. As a "car person" you owe it to yourself to go once. If you went 20 or 30 years ago, you need to revisit, it's much more now than you can imagine.

Pomona is February 11-14, anyone up for going?

Sounded like he had a high idle problem? maybe the WUR :D
My forehead hit the keyboard watching that vid! Worth the watch!

I was a part of a drag racing team in '66 (Mr. Ed, owned by Ed Wills). I don't know if they still do it, but we put warm up plugs in just before the race & ran the engine to warm it up. Every time, we'd have people crowded around, and we'd ask them to step back because it would be very loud. Of course they wouldn't, but at soon as the engine lighted up you could see all of them moving back as if pushed by a wave. If I remember right, the engines only produced around 1,800 housepower. Chrysler supplied the engines & Keith Black built them. Ed would take them out of the crate, and run them for one event. Then he would crate it back up & send it back to Keith.

unless you have stood close to one of these..
it's best you just not type anything...

Rika

Depends. Some have holes in the injection hat after the throttle bodies that are covered up with tape, removing the tape increases air flow and idle speed.
Some crew chiefs use only one magneto for the burn out and activate the second right before the run.
Some teams have throttle limiters that only allow 1/4 throttle for the burn out and are removed before the full pass. Every team and crew chief has their own little tricks.

I will prolly be there. I like going on Friday.
Saturday and Sunday are too crowded, with people. You know how I don't like ... people .... ;)

I may well go on Friday. If so, I'll get back to you. I'll also try and remember to revive this thread a few days before.

I went in 1998 (IIRC), when Joe Amato set the national record at 4.52, at something over 320mph! That was the day that got me back into it. I go to both Top Fuel events at the LVMS, as well as sportsman races in support of my buddy's '62 Nova, (consistent 10.25's).

I also remember that event in Pamona because there was a little Cessna 152 or 172 flying across the track on it's way to the airport, and just as it crossed the track, a funny car body came off and flew up in the air. The poor little plane was going no more than 60 or 70MPH, and here's this car body flying up at him, with the car chassis below on fire. He mashed the throttle and pulled up on the yolk, but it' didn't make hardly any difference other than to get a laugh out of the crowd and the announcers. He was several hundred feet above the track, and the car body was likely no more that 20 or so feet off of the ground, but it sure got his attention.:D

This is only curiosuty on my part,,,not that big a deal. Watch the video again and give me ur best guess.

I'm going for a drive later, do I have your permission??:rolleyes:

Holy WOW!

A top fuel dragster will pull almost 4x the G's of a GT3...and do it in a straight line!!!

My love/fascination for this woman grows almost daily.... ;)

tinnitis inducing loud
flutter in your chest from the shake
like a train passing close, maybe earthquake

I like the smell of nitromethane, like those little gas airplanes

No clue, I could only see the top of his head for a second or two. Prolly not long enough to be wiping the rubber dust off the tires, maybe he was just looking for leaks or whatnot.

I'm not much up on alcohol motors, I spent a little time with Jerry Darian many, many years ago when I was helping out with the bad blood top alcohol hydro boat which was the record holder at the time IIRC. I never played with car dragsters at all.

I learned a little from Jerry but only about .000001% of what he knew about alcohol motors. He was and is still regarded as one of the best.

I ran my boat to alcohol for a couple of test runs in the 80's but immediately went back to racing gas after a rod let go. $$$$$
A used bare donovan hemi block cost me $6k after it was all prepped and refurbished and that was back when I was making $18 an hour.

Too bad, they are fun.....