Eleven thousand horsepower. Let that sink in for a moment: 11,000. But that’s just an approximate calculation for this NHRA Top Fuel monster. It could be more, but there’s no dynamometer on earth that can measure the gut-wrenching, ear-splitting, asphalt-shredding power of a top fuel dragster engine. These engines are constantly pulled apart and put back together to assure optimal performance on the drag strip. Most teams can completely disassemble and reassemble the engines in less than an hour. But who has an hour to watch an engine rebuild? Enter: Redline Rebuilds. We sent Hagerty’s Davin Reckow and the video crew down to Don Schumacher Racing in Brownsburg, Indiana, to give Tony Schumacher’s U.S. Army Top Fuel dragster engine the time-lapse video treatment. The result? Take a quick look and see for yourself.
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This is the first time in my life seen a Supercharger from inside 3:00
Magic must be happening in the intake valley cause they kept blurring it out.
you'll never see a quad cam engine make this kind of HP. that technology is junk. pushrod engines rule the world
How much this type of engine weight in complete setup?
Someone has a Miata, i wanna test something
They skipped the part where they contain an actual demon inside of it
Is this faster than a Tesla?
If you put food next to this engine while it does a drag race, It comes back burnt
Now long will this last?
I enjoyed the build timelapse, but did you really have to timelapse the drag run too?
put it in a miata
That engine has more parts on it then my car😂
With that being said 11000 HP fresh built after every qt mile run 3.195 a buddy ofines brakes track records 2018 in water
Nice
Oval pistons have more rpms two connecting rods for each piston custom billet block laser forged of course
Nice job
ARTISTRY AND TECHNICALLY ADEPT!!
pls does anyone know what song plays towards the end
Algum 🇧🇷 poderia me dizer o tipo de injeção de combustível feito nesses motores ? ?? Deve ser direto na válvula ???
why is the top of the supercharger blurred??
I'm Brazilian and my dream is to work with you guys someday 🙏
Wow
Sponsorship provided by Arby's, because those rods are beefy
Why drag racers prefer v8 engines