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| BillH | What's 30,000 Horsepower? | ||
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It's when they run 4 funny cars or 4 top fuel cars down the strip at the same time.
They just did it tonite at he NHRA nationals, pretty cool. |
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Posted on: 2009/9/21 2:00
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| teebee | Re: What's 30,000 Horsepower? | ||
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I was watching, that was cool!!!!!
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Posted on: 2009/9/21 2:38
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| bogus | Re: What's 30,000 Horsepower? | ||
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damn.
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Posted on: 2009/9/21 3:16
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| 383tpimachine | Re: What's 30,000 Horsepower? | ||
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dont topfuel cars have more around 8000 a piece?
I dont know what a funny car avg but im sure its about the same so 32000 whoop Never been to the track but cant wait for my first trip |
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Posted on: 2009/9/21 4:57
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| Matatk | Re: What's 30,000 Horsepower? | ||
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This is my next engine swap:
30,000 hp |
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Posted on: 2009/9/21 11:28
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| BillH | Re: What's 30,000 Horsepower? | ||
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The announcers said 32, the graffic on the screen said 30. If you put both runs together, it was 64,000  |
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Posted on: 2009/9/21 13:22
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| TommyT-Bone | Re: What's 30,000 Horsepower? | ||
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| BrianCunningham | Re: What's 30,000 Horsepower? | ||
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That must have been cool to watch
I went to an NHRA event in SoCal. You can't believe it till your there yourself. You can feel it in your chest. |
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| Alcee1 | Re: What's 30,000 Horsepower? | ||
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feel it in your chest indeed, the first time I took my son, he felt it in his chest and wanted to go home, now he's ok and loves to go with his dad.
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| TommyT-Bone | Re: What's 30,000 Horsepower? | ||
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I stood behind a jet car on launch and I felt it in my chest literally. I got pelted by track gravel.
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| BillH | Re: What's 30,000 Horsepower? | ||
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Good thing you weren't standing in front of the intake.  |
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| JDSWHITE93 | Re: What's 30,000 Horsepower? | ||
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That was pretty cool.
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Posted on: 2009/9/22 4:05
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| teebee | Re: What's 30,000 Horsepower? | ||
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They could reduce the time for eliminations down to a couple of hours by running four at a time.
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