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Originally Posted by BeyGon

The Corvette is great but a copy.

Here is the real deal - Elkhart Lake:

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found the other picture in the sequence now...

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Originally Posted by URY914

I've always wondered about multiple engine dragsters - were they any good? I saw a four engine dragster at the NHRA museum and I wonder how hard it was to keep them all turning the same speed and putting out the same HP.

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Originally Posted by URY914

I've always wondered about multiple engine dragsters - were they any good? I saw a four engine dragster at the NHRA museum and I wonder how hard it was to keep them all turning the same speed and putting out the same HP.

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Originally Posted by DAEpperson

I've always wondered about multiple engine dragsters - were they any good? I saw a four engine dragster at the NHRA museum and I wonder how hard it was to keep them all turning the same speed and putting out the same HP.

As far as I know, those multi-engined dragsters were just to put on a show for the crowd, like the wheel-standers. With the extra weight, I don't think they could've generated very low E.T.'s... they just smoked the tires most of the way down the strip. Here's one with 4 engines and two diffs:

Quad V8 engined 4WD dragster at the 2008 Goodwood Festival of Speed on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/84744892@N00/2717913412/

Video showing a run... lots of smoke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiR8y7BmDug

Surprisingly, the tires didn't smoke as far down the strip as expected. Huge parachute to stop it.

"Four, yes count 'em, FOUR 454 cubic inch Nailheads!!! 32 cylinders pumping out 1720 horsepower... at 3555 lbs this four wheel drive car clawed the strip with 4 M&H 9.00X15.00 slicks, covering the quarter at over 170 mph in 9.14!"
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That seems a bit reckless somehow, though TBH I don't go on rides full stop

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That skater on the roller coaster is not gonna have enough mass to get himself very far.

He needs some means of propulsion.

Perhaps Wile E. Coyote can be his propulsion consultant... or at least lend him the ACME catalog.

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