Posted by PaulHoule 4/3/2025
This was tried in the 1950s and 1960s. IDK why it didn't make the cut then. Probably cumulative weight of tanks. It takes A LOT of air to run an engine.
https://gist.github.com/s0kil/9bd6815ea2ab4e65a786c6382a5bfa...
Had this idea since the 90s, but no racing team listened to me just because I was a kid in school.
Using nitrous or cool compressed air keeps most of the benefits while mitigating the problems of using pure O2.
Held in a lightweight composite thermic bottle.
They’re what firefighters use.
On the other end of the spectrum you have racing types that are more of a competition among drivers with the vehicle not really making or breaking anything as long as it's typical for the class.
The first time I took my 286 intake manifold off, it took 4 hours. The 4th time I took it off, it took 20 minutes. Once you know exactly what to do, it really cuts the time down.
I'm sure every member of the team knows exactly what to do and it's down to a dance.
For fun, look how fast they change the tires on a Formula 1 pit stop.
What is it the kids say? "Tell me you know nothing about drag racing without saying you know nothing about drag racing"? Drag racing has all of that, squeezed into 1/4 of a mile. That's why top fuelers get an engine rebuild after every trip down the track.
It's like saying, "I get ultramarathons, but 400m foot races involved little skill or training." Look, if you don't get it, fine. Probably best to just leave it at that.
But I've never felt any interest in drag racing at all, it's a pointless waste of fuel. Press accelerator, press brake, done, little to no skill required. And in something like the R8, would require a $20,000 dealer visit after a weekend of runs.
Are they? At least in Europe they are usually blue collar guys that pick a neighborhood at random to hold a car meet, terrorizing that neighborhood until deep into the night, including street races. And if they aren't accommodated they'll aggressively clash with the police.
They're easy to spot too, pumped up douches with tribal tattoos and gemstone earrings that behave like they're prone to pick a bar fight with you.
The meets I'm talking about are like this [0][1]. There's a lot of the tattoo gemstone guys in [1]'s timestamp. Is this what you mean? I'd love some examples.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bAq_qD9i2s
[1] https://youtu.be/q4lvEYLJaOY?t=340
>And if they aren't accommodated they'll aggressively clash with the police.
If you're a car guy you're basically begging to be hunted constantly. In my opinion this is all downstream of the death of folkracing.
You don't have to understand how something amuses someone to understand that it amuses them. You also don't have to belittle people to ask them why they are amused.