Do NHRA funny cars run nitrous oxide?

[elmir50]

Yep those top fuel cars are very impressive. The amount of power they produce (out of a eninge initially made to produce around 450hp) and the technology in those engines is very interesting stuff to study as well as they other systems on the car. One of the neat things about top fuel engines is the incredible amount of heat the engine produces at the end of a run, usually between 1800 - 2000 degrees. The stress the parts go through is incredible, many metalurgists are suprised when they hear of the materials used in the egines for manufacture of the parts. Lots of the materials have crept over to top fuel from the aerospace industry and military.