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Old 08-13-2015, 09:23 AM
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Originally Posted by freedhardwoods View Post
I got this from someone on another forum. The one that really gets me is - How do you push 11 gallons of fuel through a 500 cu in engine in a second?

* Under full throttle, a dragster engine will consume 11.2 gallons of nitro methane per second;a fully loaded Boeing 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate but with 25% less energy being produced.
That doesn't sound right, you'd need a 50 gallon drum of nitro for a 4 second run. You can't dump 11 gallons a second out of a bucket. It's probably 1 1/2 , not 11.2.
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