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Originally Posted by Zeke
42 fuel nozzles shoot out over 1 1/2 gallons a second. 500 PSI.
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Yeah, it's just crazy when we start looking at the numbers involved in all of this. Gallon and a half per second from the fuel pumps, two magnetos pumping out 45 amps each, to each cylinder, two plugs in each - 90 amps per cylinder every time they fire. 60 psi of boost (4.5 bar) from the blower. It takes over 1,000 hp just to drive the fuel pumps, mags, and blower. Just crazy numbers.
What's really cool about all of this is that it was all essentially developed by guys like us - "shade tree mechanics". Pioneers like Garlits, with no factory backing and, at first, a great deal of opposition from the NHRA (who actually banned nitro at one time). The ultimate expression of American hot-rodding.