mind warp

Keep attending nitro race meets, your brain will learn!

The deceleration at 320+ mph when they hit the chutes is almost twice the g force of the acceleration initially. Up to 11 G’s at its peak. Negative G’s are the worst on the human body. In this case it’s the eyes. At risk of getting detached retinas, they squint as they pull the shoots to help take the initially strain.

And feel!

OH YEA

I know people just don’t understand everybody should get a chance to hear one of these things run

Especially from the starting line.

I've seen them run multiple times. I love going to the 4 wides. 2 are loud, 4 is ridiculous.

There on the iss making this!!!!

Do you get to use a timer controlled cannon too or no?

There's an article floating around on the internet that goes into a little more detail, not much more, on how pretty much every part of the top fuel cars work. If you're interested you might want to search around. I'm sorry it's been too long since I read it so I can't remember exactly what the title was. Probably something along the lines of "everything you ever wanted to know about top fuel" although that could be way off. Think it's maybe 3-5 years old but I remember the article discussing the clutch and they went over this information, so that hasn't changed.

Parent Of Twins, it’s funny but the article you are referring to is called Nitro University it was written by my crew chief Mike Kloeber the same guy explaining the clutch in this video. Thanks for watching.

@@claymillican25 That is funny. It had been so long I had forgotten. I just remember it being an interesting article.

Heres a peice of info. The engines on these are held in with hose clamps! Something crazy forsure

That’s what I was thinking. Some great engineering right there. I’m going to guess 15k USD for the whole clutch assembly.

@@Dave-so7sf Most people would pay that kind of money for a whole car! lol

@@tomkjr1 I was curious and just looked it up 10k-14k 😳. I was pretty close.

@@Dave-so7sf Expensive hobby eh!?

That's actually not as bad as I thought.

Sorry but I have to disagree with you on this. If each and every person on the team doesn’t do their job it doesn’t matter how good the clutch person is. It takes everyone and every part for it all to work. I do appreciate you watching and commenting though!!!

Last I heard, something like $30k on a good, clean run.

Assuming everything is paid for. Team members, vehicles, fuel, hotels, trailers. About $9,000-$12,000 per pass. NOW....if you blow up go ahead and double that price just as a start.

A brand new fresh block with nothing done to it, example in getting it right out of the CNC machine will cost you a minimum of $10k.

I’ve heard expect $100k minimum for an event (including transport out, fuel for the rig, all that stuff) but I think adding passes doesn’t add that much relatively. Probably $10k-20k per additional pass

@@pr3modeling239 ditto

What do you mean by normal?

@@keithklassen5320 500- 1500 hp cars

I don’t think the driver has much impact on clutch wear, they don’t slip the clutch manually to bring in the power with the pedal.

@@MS-Patriot2 yeah good point thanks

25000

I am pretty sure they are in a trailer. Space is at a premium.

Dude you know how much a pro car trailer costs???? Tractor trailers with 2 cars... Top and bottom and another with all that workspace, and possibly lodging. Its definitely gotta be spoiling

Well if you're looking straight forward yeah but if you're using the bench, no.

Any vibration can achieve s Richter rating.