Alright...any engineers in the house?

[Reed]

i doubt that top fuelers care about hassles seeing as how they rebuild after every race. the IC would be liquid to air with ice around the whole thing. im pretty sure they would use the same injectors as they are using now seeing as how they would be running the same boost and therefore the same amount of fuel. they would benefit because a blower on a top fueler robs the motor of around 1000 hp whereas a turbo only robs a little through slightly added backpressure.

[Schister66]

i thought they used carbs....:s

[nissanfanatic]

Nope, fuel injected.

Building engines is cheap anyways..who would wanna hassle with making one last... I mean..that would be more money. Nobody wants that.

[longlivetheZ]

Even if the Formula 1 cars did turn down the boost a bit for actual racing, it's still incredible the juice they get out of such small engines AND retain the incredible level of durability that they do. Absolutely amazing...

[Schister66]

those engines are amazingly built tho.....money is not even a thought when it comes to those cars.....SICK!

[CBFryman]

Originally Posted by sv650s

but it would still kinda suck to have a turbo since dragsters need really good acceleration. the person you're racing against would be way past you and your turbo would have just started spooling.

Ummm, no. Top fule dragsters run at 1 constant RPM for the entinre run, have one gear ratio, and traction is controlled by slippage in the clutch which is controlled by computer.

Which is why top fule takes nothing more than balls, r/t, and a really good mechanic.

[Reed]

if you think the old turbo f1 engines were amazing, the new 2.4L V8s are naturally aspirated and making close to 1k hp last i heard.

[longlivetheZ]

Originally Posted by Reed

if you think the old turbo f1 engines were amazing, the new 2.4L V8s are naturally aspirated and making close to 1k hp last i heard.

That's pretty crazy, but 90 cid is WAY smaller than 2.4L.

[beef_bourito]

but the 2.4L are naturally aspirated. the turbo f1's were running a few Bar, run that on any street block and you'll have a piston shooting through your roof half way down the strip.

[longlivetheZ]

Not if the engine is built for that psi. That's "only" ~25psi...I've seen examples of reliable engines running twice that.

But anyway...yes, the one engine is NA. But it's also (quite a large bit) bigger. Bigger NA engine...smaller Turbo'd engine...it's all just different ways of getting to a common goal. This wasn't the point of me using that example. I was merely saying that a 90 cid engine being able to make THAT level of power, and on a reliable basis, with the use of turbos illustrates the power of the turbo and to compare this against the supercharged big blocks of Top Fuel.