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Posted on 02/14/2016 3:09:08 PM PST by rey
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Is this the same EPA that banned over the counter asthma inhalers for their contribution of fluorocarbons that are killing the planet?
Please do not tell me they either have my best interest or the planet’s best interest in mind. I already know they don’t.
Will “stock†cars now have to be stock cars in the same condition the come from the dealership?
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What if I am running a VW Diesel?????
“It came from the dealership just like this.”
LOL Forget the Catalytic converter...
TOP FUEL DRAGSTER FAST FACTS
ACCELERATION PUT INTO PERSPECTIVE
dragster* One Top Fuel dragster 500 cubic-inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than the first 4 rows at the Daytona 500.
* Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 11.2 gallons of nitro methane per second; a fully loaded 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate with 25% less energy being produced.
* A stock Dodge Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to merely drive the dragster’s supercharger.
* With 3000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into a near-solid form before ignition. Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock at full throttle.
* At the stoichiometric 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture for nitro methane the flame front temperature measures 7050 degrees F.
* Nitro methane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric water vapor by the searing exhaust gases.
* Dual magnetos supply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of an arc welder in each cylinder.
* Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After 1/2 way, the engine is dieseling from compression plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1400 degrees F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting the fuel flow.
* If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up in the affected cylinders and then explodes with sufficient force to blow cylinder heads off the block in pieces or split the block in half.
* Dragsters reach over 300 MPH before you have completed reading this sentence.
* In order to exceed 300 MPH in 4.5 seconds, dragsters must accelerate an average of over 4 G’s. In order to reach 200 MPH well before half-track, the launch acceleration approaches 8 G’s.
* Top Fuel engines turn approximately 540 revolutions from light to light!
* Including the burnout, the engine must only survive 900 revolutions under load.
* The redline is actually quite high at 9500 RPM.
* THE BOTTOM LINE: Assuming all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, & for once, NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs an estimated $1,000 per second.
The current Top Fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.441 seconds for the quarter-mile (10/05/03, Tony Schumacher). The top speed record is 333.00 MPH (533 km/h) as measured over the last 66′ of the run (09/28/03, Doug Kalitta).
Gasoline ally named charging street no thanks
What about street rods? They never have anything like cat converters, etc.”
I have a 57 Bel Air and a 67 Camaro running just glass packs after the headers. The EPA hates people like me I’m sure.
Never heard of it so I looked it up. It might be neat to watch but probably very quiet.
I got to see the turbine cars run at Indy. Seemed very strange when one went by alone and you only heard a whooshing sound.
What the heck strange combination of engines is that?
They are no more stock than the space shuttle relates to a Cessna 150.
There is not one piece of sheet panel, chassis, wheels, suspension, transmission, engine or interior that is stock.
Nothing, zippo, so NASCAR gets by the rules of the EPA.
2 tank V-12 diesels/4 turbochargers and a 526 Kieth Black Hemi gas that he kicks in when things get rolling
http://ridingmode.com/slaedehunden-the-most-insane-pulling-tractor-ever/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dxHD8ION08
(more fun with the sound UP)
Looks like the Europeans dominate it.
* Including the burnout, the engine must only survive 900 revolutions under load.
Those two aren't right.
I can see some sense to truly stock “stock cars”,but the last thing we need is the EPA messing with it. It would be better if they were ancient history. Say what you you will,but the EPA screws up more than it has ever fixed.
I can see some sense to truly stock “stock cars”,but the last thing we need is the EPA messing with it. It would be better if they were ancient history. Say what you you will,but the EPA screws up more than it has ever fixed.
There is no “EPA”. There is only a collection of individuals who bully and intimidate people in order to carry out certain activities ordered by a different group of people we call “congress”. These people have addresses. I’d love to see some enterprising hacker reveal the home addresses of EPA and IRS employees. See what happen when govt viciousness can be responded to.
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Again, the constitutionally undefined EPA has no constitutional authority to tell anybody to do anything imo.
In fact, regardless of PC, pro-federal government interpretations of Congresss Supremacy Clause (6.2), Congress does not have the constitutional authority to tell citizens what they can or cannot do if the states have never delegated to Congress, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to reasonably tell citizens what to do concerning a particular issue.
In fact, note that a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that powers not delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, are prohibited to the feds.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” - United States v. Butler, 1936.
On the other hand, note that a given state does have the 10th Amendment-protect power to tell that states citizens what they reasonably can or cannot do, as long as such action by that state does not abridge constitutionally enumerated rights.
For example, note that low-information state officials in pro-gay activist states have been unthinkingly wrongly abridging constitutionally enumerated protections recently, such states wrongly using constitutionally unprotected gay rights to stifle 1st Amendment-protected freedom of religious expression and free speech, the states having never amended the Constitution to expressly protect gay rights.
14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Remember in November !
When patriots elect Trump, Cruz, or whatever conservative they elect, they need to also elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its Section 8-limited powers to support the new president, but also protect the states from unconstitutional federal government overreach.
Also, consider that such a Congress would probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
Now that was a excellent reply.
Thanks
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