People love Hot Rod Fuller - here signing autographs and talking to fans outside the Peterson/CAT
hospitality tent
in July 2007
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Hot Rod Fuller, seated in his car, tests the engine with his awesome pit crew
Hot Rod Fuller's car being prepped
in the pit
Rod signs autographs outside the joint Peterson/CAT hospitality tent at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, CA
July 2007
photo by Auto Imagery
photo by Auto Imagery
HotRod Fuller's
Car
Stats:
500 cubic inch engine
8,000 hp at 8,000 rpm
Fuel: 85% nitro-methane & 15% methanol
Career best E.T. = 4.462 seconds
Career best speed = 331.61 mph
Costs $28,000 for each quarter-mile run
Crew tears down engine after every run
Crew can complete engine overhaul in 35 minutes
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Fun
Facts:
Dragsters reach over 300 mph before you have completed reading this sentence.
Launch acceleration approaches 8 Gs in order to reach 200 mph, well before half-track and averages
4 Gs to reach 300 mph in 4.5 seconds.
Given Rod’s body weight (175 lbs), he feels the equivalent of 1400 lbs during launch phase at 8 Gs.
Under full throttle, Rod’s dragster engine consumes 15 gallons of nitro-methane per run. A fully loaded
747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate with 25% less energy being produced.
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.