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  • AllenK
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    Originally posted by NMCA_Ron
    Hmmmm....

    I notice a startling omission from your list, Dave. The old pro stockers (and maybe some of the current ones) are familiar with it:

    PROPYLENE OXIDE

    This stuff makes naturally aspirated cars run like a scalded dog. It will also melt your face off. Note in the NHRA rulebook how many times it says "Propylene oxide: prohibited."



    Ron
    We call that "Pop" or "Prop" around here. None of us had ever heard of it until a guy accused us somewhat jokingly of running it in our oval track car. The car owner may have been running it,but we never knew for sure.

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  • Freiburger
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    Not the 932, but Sonny's does have high-800-cube motors that run on pump.

    Thanks for joining us.

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  • Diesel
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    Hmm... does that 932 crate motor run on pump gas, I got a (insert your car here)...

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  • LSX-GTO
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    Originally posted by Freiburger
    Who said anything was wrong with 'em?
    The thread title... seemed a bit negative... I don't know.... I guess I'm still stinging from being tossed out for using one. :D

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  • Freiburger
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    Who said anything was wrong with 'em?

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  • LSX-GTO
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    What's wrong with the "inline" shifters? We grafted one to a Tremec TKO... Worked well enough that... it made me look like Ronny Sox for a little while, before the NMRA Tech Officials made it illegal...



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  • Freiburger
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    Yep, should have put propox in there!

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  • ka67_72
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    Check out the first pic on the link above. Forget about blowing off the heads and supercharger. The entire block is gone!!!!

    Kevin

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  • Ron Ward
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    Hmmmm....

    I notice a startling omission from your list, Dave. The old pro stockers (and maybe some of the current ones) are familiar with it:

    PROPYLENE OXIDE

    This stuff makes naturally aspirated cars run like a scalded dog. It will also melt your face off. Note in the NHRA rulebook how many times it says "Propylene oxide: prohibited."



    Ron

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  • Brian Lohnes
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    And to think a bunch of hot rodders in t-shirts were probably playing football with glass jars of the stuff in the 1960's.

    Cavemaster -- I'll be ringing you up tomorrow so we can figger out this drinking beers thing.

    Brian

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  • Caveman
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    Aaaah, Hydrazine. The stuff the USAF won't let ANYONE near.

    F-16s have a small tank of it, it's used to keep the aircraft running if it's only engine goes out. If there's a spill of it on the airfield, NO ONE is allowed within a ridiculous radius. If you're downwind, you're supposed to VACATE THE AREA, if you're still breathing. Then the HAZMAT guys are called in for clean up. It WILL kill you if you're not wearing the proper spacesuit.

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  • Brian Lohnes
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    Me and DF were shooting e-mails back and forth with regard to this list and both of us had the hydrazine EUREKA! moment at the same time.

    As the story goes, the Greek ran that first 200mph shot at Alton, Illinois with some 'zine in the tank.

    Guys from the era have told me that the header flames looked green when the stuff was in play.

    The old adage was, "If the ground is pounding and the flames are green, that car is running hydrazine!"

    Brian

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  • BlackoutSteve
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    Originally posted by kick_the_reverb
    Thumbs up on the Hydrazine topping the list.
    PM me for recipe of a drink I invented a couple of years ago by that name.

    Ran
    Does your drink have the chemical formula N2 H4 :P
    That's all Hydrazine is. Just Hydrogen and Nitrogen surprisingly.. ..To me anyway.. I'm hardly a chemist.

    I read about this stuff once in a book I have..

    "..a colorless, fuming, corrosive hygroscopic (absorbs water easily and from the air like brake fluid) liquid.. When mixed with NitroMethane it forms explosive salts (Hydrazinium Salt of Methazanic Acid) that require only the oxygen in NtroMethane to combust..
    ..Hydrazine was first used in the late 1940s as a NitroMethane additive. It has the potential to produce dramatic increases in power due to it's high reaction rate, which produces extremely high cylinder pressures in a piston engine, and very little is required.
    Hydrazine has killed racers and spectators by literally blowing the heads off a racing engine, possibly due to the formation of explosive Hydrazinium Salts - a Class A explosive.."


    Nice stuff!

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  • seered
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    There was one blue ford ranger that shipped some hydrazine to one Cordova dragway and after adding a tad bit to the fuel cell I believe he set his quickest pass ever (2007) non nitrous oxide on the final day of drag week.
    Eric is crafty like that.

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  • kick_the_reverb
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    Thumbs up on the Hydrazine topping the list.
    PM me for recipe of a drink I invented a couple of years ago by that name.

    Ran

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