Thanks!

Turbo 400 with a lock up converter

@@robertlane370 😂

Yeah, 5.5 seconds 260 mph, these things are insane!😅

It’s called an air shifter I think

Nitrous Cars Like To Be Lugged Down

That's the converter locking up dragging the engine rpm down to the driveshaft speed.

@@1elijawon1 no they don't. That a good way to hurt it.

I'll short shift right out of the hole and just ride the converter in second gear if im struggling to hook in time trials

Thanks, Chutes are deployed with the Button on the Wheel.

Great question on the pin still being in the fire system handle.

There's nothing like a slower car without having to have an unfair addition of a lockup on your transmission or you're like one second slower than every other power adder. :p Nitrous sucks.

Chris Harris lock up isn’t required to go fast with a nitrous car and won’t be a second slower

@@brandonsikes9166 It's required if they want to keep up with a blower, turbo or procharger. Nitrous has SERIOUSLY fallen behind. They're being given huge weight benefits and lockups in most races.

Chris Harris a blower car runs a 5 speed and a lock up and is only 200lbs heavier than a nitrous car and they only run 3 hundredths quicker

@@brandonsikes9166 um not I NHRA they dont. 3 speed no lockup. Nice try. Only 200 pound ahahaah the car is only 2300 pounds so we're talking TEN PERCENT more weight. Ya...no bonus there or anything.

They prefer breathing. Fires don't generally turn the car into an instant blazing inferno because until shit has time to melt, there's nothing but fuel to burn and you don't have ten gallons of extra fuel in your promod both weighing you down and being a fire hazard. There might be an extra gallon or two of fuel by the end of the track. Fires just really don't happen.

If u get knocked out and there is a fire, u have bigger problems than ur shield not being down

@@danielupchurch6024 Which just isn't happening. I know what you're saying and it's smarter for them to have their shields on but if they have fire on their faces, a piece of plastic isn't going to last longer than a flash of fire...as in something consuming the car is going to melt that like a piece of cheese. Some racers fear the spectre of fire, many do not. i guess it depends how close they've come to it in order to respect it.

@@Chris_Harris no I'm with u there, also they tend to fog up very easily, or maybe u have a tented shield on and forgot to change it and the sun goes down u it makes it hard to see, which is definitely not something u want n a car like that.

@@danielupchurch6024 I honestly think the face plates are to stop a flash over fire and then debris from a blown up engine or trans being the largest reason. If you're unconcious and enough fire on you to need a face plate, like you said, you'd be unconcious and probably sucking fumes or 150 degree air into your lungs as you breathe automatically.

Huh? Nitrous gets an unfair advantage of a lockup on the transmission or it falls so far behind they can't even qualify. Know your technology. Every other power adder has destroyed Nitrous. They keep forcing them to add weight in comparison to a nitrous car too.

Chris Harris the nitrous cars are just a quick a the pro boost cars so not really sure where you came up with that and the boosted cars run 5 speeds and lock ups

@@brandonsikes9166 no, they're not. They are given weight bonuses or drivetrain gains everywhere or just race in nitrous only events. Buddy, all the boosts have advanced..nitrous is still the same toxic environmentally destructive bullshit from the 60s...they just added more kits and parts that dont melt down. Count the number of nitrous cars in NHRA promos orbpdra provost....lol a fraction of the others AND they are given bonuses.

That´s a good point. The housing of transmission probally is ''bullet proof'' i guess... Somebody know something about this?

Backyard-Built-Trucks there isn’t a rule that states you have to have one and these transmission rarely come apart

@@brandonsikes9166 The coming apart is true they dont very often , but i have seen when they have and was ugly.

The aftermarket transmission case meets the SFI specification, no shield is necessary......

So they should just ignore technological advancements just to make the car slower and increase the risk of hurting the engine to be more manly?

BTW, the chutes are not automatically deployed. They are released via a button on the steering wheel.

Right, because a 1000CI engine with 6 kits is safe to shift while driving some of the thin tracks. The other option is you meaning them pushing Lenko knobs? That the "shifting" you calling because "shifting" involves a foot clutch, probably some sort of gated shifter and speeds that are probably 30-50mph slower. Sorry frank but promod cars are past Lenko shift knobs. When they hit 3500HP, shit got serious and yes some things needed to get automated to keep it SAFE.

@@Chris_Harris if you cant take your hand off the wheel to push said buttons you shouldn't be driving a 3500hp car

I understand progress and the speeds these cars have obtained, but like previously stated they haven't gone that much faster than they did 10 years ago, and those guys used to shift them, and do everything in the car, what is the point of having all that computer an air devices that do everything, if you can't shift the car, then don't drive it! I've driven all types of cars, so before you go saying you've never driven something like this, I have! If shifting the car yourself means slowing the car down at least it would make it exciting to watch again and make it more of a driver's race, not a computer race

@@agentk8263 I couldn’t agree more, Thank you 🙏

@@mattyoconnor3784 It's too much. We're talking 3.xx races now. The power has gone up, speeds have gone up, the ETs have plummeted and they still need to keep a hand ready for a chute because if the car gets out of the grove you're fucked. Sorry but pushing extra hand shifts on a 2000HP car doing 5 ETs is one thing but 3500-4000hp doing 3.50's is a whole nothing thing. Auto shifting that kind of car isn't a competition thing, it's a safety thing.

agree'd the car has hardly even woken up by the time they shut it down.