wild willie's spirit live's on at the chrr

Gonna Frame This One.................

 

We were pit side the Bradford car came to a stop directly in front of us crazy ass moment for sure. Boyd is as much a driver as Willy was. And I saw Willy many times at Fremont one handed sideways.

 

Mike, when younger rode moto x ., he outgrew them and built a N/TF (Nitro Warrior) at home in his small garage ,which he gave his father Jim after the 'Red Turkey' was crashed. He is a good christian family man, a body builder , cancer survivor and a doting grandpa. He is a supervisor in the aerospace industry. He is a great role model and likes to mentor schoolkids about their grades and behaviors. A true Warrior !!

 

Capps reply of "hell No !" Is weak compared to Gary Scelzi's , who stated he'd rather sit in an electric chair than shoe the "Wing"! Boyd still holds the late model AA/FA record in Sullivan's "transformer" at 5.50 and some change. The "Wing" is his first love though.

 

VIDEO on YOU TUBE..............has the Winged Express doing it thing during the Bradford / Express Burnout......Search CHRR 2010 Winged Express

 

This is the link to the bangshift.com video:

http://www.bangshift.com/blog/Video-The-Winged-Express-pulls-off-its-craziest-burnout-yet.html

 

So, if you are the back up guy how do you do that one!?

 

very carefully...

look at the pics side by side... really pretty incredible!

 

All,
I love racing Big Mike,,,, When he passed me on the right durning his burnout I just said to myself "Whoa Big boy what are you doing over there, and as he pulled back into his lane its just business as usual" After the race we just laughed and HI 5's. We have been running 7.0's and I changed the combo to try for a 6.99 it may take a few more runs to get a handle on it. 7.0's or 7.20' don't matter much its the RACE. but, I've never run a 6 and its on my bucket list. I'm 62 and Pop is 83 we still enjoy running the altered and will continue as long as possable.

 

Saw the video on Bang Shift...that is friggin awesome and wild!

 

Couver Kid emailed me this you tube link thought I'd share it with everyone.

 

Way Cool.............I was on the fence when this happened..........that run was worth $65 CHRR Weekend Event Pass............4 Days for $65....Thurs was extra....pays to arrive early.

 

Your fiat is a bad ass car great to see those two cars make a strong pass down the track together. Thanks

 

You 'Young Guns' are still putting on a great show for everyone to enjoy... You just re-created the good ole' days, with lasting memories....

I guess you certainly appreciated the fact Mr. Boyd was at the wheel instead of others ?

Just had to watch the video again after talking to Rooman tonight......

 

Subject: DEFINITION OF ACCELERATION

Read this thru slowly and try to comprehend the amount of force produced in just under 4 seconds!
There are no rockets or airplanes built by any government in the world that can accelerate from a standing start as fast as a Top Fuel Dragster or Funny Car!


> One top fuel dragster 500 cubic inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than the first 4 rows of stock cars at the Daytona 500.
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> It takes just 15/100ths of a second for all 6,000+ horsepower of an NHRA Top Fuel dragster engine to reach the rear wheels.
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> Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 1-1/2 gallons of nitro methane per second; a fully loaded 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate with 25% less energy being produced.
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> A stock Dodge Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to drive the dragster's supercharger.
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> With 3,000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into a near-solid form before ignition.
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> Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock at full throttle.
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> At the stoichiometric (stoichiometry: methodology and technology by which quantities of reactants and products in chemical reactions are determined) 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture of nitro methane, the flame front temperature measures 7,050 deg F.
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> 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.
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> Dual magnetos supply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of an arc welder in each cylinder.
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> Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After halfway, the engine is dieseling from compression, plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1,400 deg F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting the fuel flow.
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> 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.
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> In order to exceed 300 mph in 4.5 seconds, dragsters must accelerate an average of over 4G's. In order to reach 200 mph (well before half-track), the launch acceleration approaches 8G's.
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> Dragsters reach over 300 miles per hour before you have completed reading this sentence.
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> Top fuel engines turn approximately 540 revolutions from light to light! Including the burnout, the engine must only survive 900 revolutions under load.
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> The redline is actually quite high at 9,500 rpm.
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> Assuming all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, and for once NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs an estimate $1,000.00 per second.
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> The current top fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.428 seconds for the quarter mile (11/12/06, Tony Schumacher, at Pomona, CA ). The top speed record is 336.15 mph as measured over the last 66' of the run (05/25/05 Tony Schumacher, at Hebron, OH).
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> Putting all of this into perspective:
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> You are driving the average $140,000 Lingenfelter 'twin-turbo' powered Corvette Z06. Over a mile up the road, a top fuel dragster is staged and ready to launch down a quarter mile strip as you pass. You have the advantage of a flying start. You run the 'Vette hard up through the gears and blast across the starting line and pass the dragster at an honest 200 mph. The 'tree' goes green for both of you at that moment.
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> The dragster launches and starts after you. You keep your foot down hard, but you hear an incredibly brutal whine that sears your eardrums and within 3 seconds, the dragster catches and passes you. He beats you to the finish line, a quarter mile away from where you just passed him.
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> Think about it, from a standing start, the dragster had spotted you 200 mph and not only caught, but nearly blasted you off the road when he passed you within a mere 1,320 foot long race course.
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> ...... and that my friend, is ACCELERATION!

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