@Nitro
Sees your name is Nitro.
Ironic.
Not really, it's a part of a special interest
There is something about 11,000+ horsepower V-8 engine cars that really gets my heart pumping.
0-335+ miles per hour in 1,000 feet of track in under 4 seconds from a standing start makes them the fastest accelerating vehicles on the planet.
The reverberations of these cars roll thru your entire body and shake every bone in it when under power and the nitromethane fumes in the air at an event gives you a high that lasts several days.
If you stand at half track or the 500 foot marker by the fence, you cannot see the cars as they go by because it rattles your eyes in your head to a blur.
The 500 cubic inch displacement engines are based on a block that shares the outside physical dimensions of the original 426 street hemi that was sold in production cars in the 60s and early 70s. They were advertised as having 425 horsepower for insurance purposes, but usually pumped out over 600.
The 14-71 superchargers that force feed them air require more parasitic horsepower loss to drive them than the 426 street hemi was capable of producing.
The Roots style superchargers are based on the exhaust scavaging blowers that were originally used on Detroit 2 stroke diesel engines.
The 14 refers to the number of cylinders the blower was capable of scavaging, while the 71 references the cubic inch displacement of the individual cylinders.
I'm also involved in model aircraft that use up to 50% of nitromethane in their fuel mix.
Nitro or combinations of it has been my online handle for around two decades now
