LT1 Wrangler For Sale in Arizona (repost)

So put your money where you month is, it's only a half second away
at National Hot Rod Association's
http://www.nhra.com/stats/natrecord.html Until then you don't mind if I
be Rolling On The Floor Laughing My A** Off! waiting for you, of course
I guess we could always go twelve cylinders. ROTFLMAO!!!!!!
God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
http://www.billhughes.com/

c wrote:
>
> Bill,
> Do you know the difference between a rocket car and a jet car? I did not say
> that the jets were banned, in fact I went to see them at the local track
> just a few weeks ago. I do still remember going to watch my first drag race
> at the same track 28 years ago, and the ROCKET car that was there that night
> ran a 4.93 ET at 344 MPH. This was 28 years ago when the Top Fuel cars still
> had the short wings, they shifted gears, and they didn't have the lockup
> clutches like they do now. Also thousands fewer ponies too. I can't say what
> the TF cars were running back then, but I do know that the 4 second barrier
> was not broken until Eddie Hill did it the week after the US Nationals in
> 1988. He broke the 4 second barrier at the Texas Motorplex running a 4.93ET
> if my memory serves me correctly. I was at Indy that year, and Gene Snow and
> I believe Joe Amato were in the finals. Snow had run a 5.002 in the semi
> finals, and said he would get the 4 in the final, but his throttle linkage
> broke right after he launched. Anyway, my point here is that the rocket cars
> had got so fast, and I believe I remember hearing about a run that was over
> 400MPH and in the very low 4 second range, but that I am not sure of. I
> think that was when all of the sanctioning bodies started banning the
> rockets. Also, the Jets do sometimes hit a higher top speed than the TF
> cars, but I haven't seen or heard of a jet that is close to a TF car as far
> as ET is concerned, and ET is what counts. Now, I'm sure if someone built an
> unlimited jet car based on the newest jet technology, it might be a
> different story. I did find this page that only shows the records for a
> particular track.
>
> http://www.mirdrag.com/records.htm
>
> It shows a 3 tenths of a second difference in favor of the TF car. This ET
> difference at 300MPH equates to 132 feet! Not my imagination at all.
>
> Chris