Top Fuel is a type of drag racing whose dragsters are the quickest accelerating racing cars in the world and the fastest sanctioned category of drag racing, with the fastest competitors reaching speeds of 338.94 miles per hour (545.5 km/h) and finishing the …

2023年3月30日 · While the engines in Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars are fairly similar class to class, there are some bigger differences between the two outside of the obvious chassis length and body shape. For instance, there are speed and ET differences.

2017年3月27日 · Under full throttle a modern top fuel dragster engine burns approx.11 gallons of fuel a minute. The fuel pump is capable of delivering 77 gallons per minute through a 2.5˝ diameter fuel line. The fuel tank holds 17 gallons of fuel.

NHRA Top Fuel dragsters are the world's fastest accelerating land vehicles. They can go from 0 to 60 mph in half a second. The lightweight drag rails can travel a quarter-mile in 4.4 seconds while achieving speeds of more than 335 mph.

2021年3月19日 · A Top Fuel Dragster—distinguished by a supercharged, custom-built, 500-cubic-inch engine—boasts 11,000 horsepower and burns nitromethane. By contrast, a Top Alcohol Dragster’s output is...

2024年1月3日 · Top Fuel dragster engines burn up to 15 gallons of fuel in one run. Horsepower numbers are estimated on most Top Fuel dragster engines. Top Fuel dragster engines have to be rebuilt after every run.

2023年4月7日 · Top Fuel dragster engines produce between 8,000 and 10,000 horsepower. Learn more about NHRA Top Fuel dragsters at HowStuffWorks.

2010年9月1日 · There was a time when all you needed to race Top Fuel was a front-engine dragster chassis, a junkyard 392 Hemi, a Jimmy blower, and enough money to buy some nitro.

* One Top Fuel dragster 500 cubic-inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower (8,000 HP) than the first 4 rows at the Daytona 500. * Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 11.2 gallons of nitro methane per second; a fully loaded 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate with 25% less energy being produced.

The BME Top Fuel Dragster backing up to the starting line after a burnout at Houston in 2016. Image: Auto Imagery.