2:09 you got that right! Bad ass!

i get all warm and fuzzy inside :D

@NuBz Neither is your "imaginary" sense of wit and intelligence....

I love it. 😌😂😂

Amen

Nitro is real, god well she’s not!

CAN I GET AN AMEN !! 💪

hey could you explain this? so they start with gas and switch to nitro?

It starts on methanol to warm up, that the pump for nitromethane is switched on and he disconnects the hose for the methanol. The black hose you can see when it iddles in the beginning.

@@mightress 👍👍

@larry ballard That's actually incorrect they start nitro motors on methanol or alcohol to get the engines up to temp. Nitro while burning is volatile it wont run unless under a fair bit of temp and compression. So they get the cylinders warm first before feeding the nitro in.

ant for a 60s dragster like this around 2500

Thanks man!

15 years now and still number one spot :)

Is the transition from alcohol to nitro the sound difference I'm hearing @ 2:10 onwards? The engine starts to crack and pop rather than just rumble.

@@benedictroberts678 best alarm clock in the world..........@ 2am for all the neighbors to enjoy🤣

Make it 10!

same!!, the way that car jumps when he wacks that throttle is scary!

Same here friend.

Same!

@@CarsandCats Seen or heard this?: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nMB9g6d0s9-1qHk.html

@NuBz 92 as in 392 cubic inch Hemi, That thing is drinking the good stuff!

FORD guy here as well and I couldn't agree more.

Me too love the 63 Gal behind

@deadboy600 who gives a SHIT

Ford guy too got a 49 ford

deadboy600 thats great in all but apparently Chrysler made the combo work. Although depending on what is being attempted still might not be the best option. My father in law raced top fuel funny car for a major beer company in the day. Not a complete sponsorship but lots of cash regardless. He was only a Chevy guy. Long story short I bought a 71 Cuda 440. Knowing that at that point a non hemi derived motor had not qualified in top fuel for more than 10 years, so I set in to destroy him. He didn’t like me either. I mentioned this fact to him only to have his mechanic step up. He says you know why the use hemi engines? Because they breath well. I said oh, ok. The argument was ended by his own team. Bottom line is they all make cool engines and cool cars. If someone hates a ford Chevy or mopar than really they are pretty stupid. Some things work better than others. Some are just cool and don’t work worth a shit. But in the end cars are cool whoever made them.

I have always wondered why these old dragsters are started like that. why the change over.

to warm up the cylinders...if you start it up on nitromethane, the engine would blow up like dynamite....engine has to be a certain temp before turning valve over to nitromethane!

@@redblue40rc33 It won't blow up, it just won't run. It's warmed up on alcohol just to get the nitromethane to burn.

250-300degrees at the head for the Nitro!

I have seen even new Top Fuel Dragsters need to start on alcohol before switching to nitro. Of course they only need 25 seconds while this needed 2 minutes, but still...

we that have dragsters now thank big daddy, i cant imagine my parts over the rear end

The shriek and wail of a Fender Stratocaster in the hands of a guitar wizard gets most of the way there but i believe you are correct sir.

Why toluene?

I played with toluene too! Boosted cars love it, o2 sensors commit suicide lol. Look at it wrong get cancer. We went 1 gallon to every 10 of 93. Toluene and other exotic stuff was used in racing as an octane booster in many racing series including F1.

I did regular pump gas 87 octane and mixed Naphtha with it. 1:4 ratio! Gave me 118 octane! I called it the Arkansas TuneUp!

Search for hours looking for hemi nitro front end dragsters.

D S ... They start up on alcohol ...

I read this comment about 5 seconds before he did that and wondered to myself, "I wonder what he means?" ...then the dude with the beard did it, and I thought, "OHHHH". Wicked indeed.

@@BeachBoysRemembered So started on alcohol then switched to nitro? What was the small hose/cord disconnected from the supercharger?

@@x-man5056 an impact tool to turn the engine

@@perfectcell7995 No. I know what that was. I was referring to a hose or a cord with a connector on the end. He disconnects it at 2:07 long after the engine is running.

***** Trying to remember who has one. There was a guy a couple of years ago who was trying to build a "Sneaky" Pete tribute car, but the block and heads are in the $20k range!

Thanks! Can't believe I took this video almost 14 years ago!

I was there and 17 years old. and yes it was awesome and those fantastic Irwindale hamburgers turned into in and out burger.

AMEN

I wouldn't sit back there unless it had a strap on the blower !!!

Marivec Montreuil years ago nobody had came up with the idea of a strap

I was at the texas motorplex around 94 at mid track when mark oswald blew the old milwaukee car at the finish line! That concussion was ridiculous!

Charger Dave Wait until you hear a blower go off at 1000 ft. A real blower explosion. With parts going into the sky!

The NHRA heritage series still runs top fuel with front engine dragsters (Nostalgia Top Fuel). Blower restraints are mandatory but the design isn't outlawed.

Pro-Series Fabrication they do but i saw where the frames are also heavily modified. These older ones would bounce all over the place, pretty dangerous but they did it.