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lightstopphoto · 8 months

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Top Fuel Cylinder head at Pomona Raceway

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#photographers on tumblr #original photographers #digital photography #b&w #nitromethane #nhra #top fuel #pomona #shot by S

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timesnewfishcat · 9 months

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artfight attack for @nitromethane

#art #fishcatart #artfight #artfight 2023 #nitromethane

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mageofcolors · 2 years

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recent drawing of @nitromethane 's mori!!! it was super fun to draw :D

#donk post #donk art #nitromethane #art

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worm-god · 17 days

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A day at the races Pomona, California 3/2024

#california #pomona #drag racing #racing #nitromethane #old school #hot rod #nhra

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lizardtracks · 11 months

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A Prayer at the Altar of Speed

Until the last weekend in March, I had never made a pilgrimage to an NHRA Nationals event. I may never get to make one again. So I began my pilgrimage—as all pilgrims should—by walking. Each Nationals event begins with a track walk. Fans are invited to enter the track at the “burn-out” area, stroll past the starting lights, and then down the arrow-straight—but not tabletop level—track. Here we learn that drag strips are sticky.

No. I mean sticky. Not sticky like your mom’s kitchen floor. Sticky like glue at its tackiest set. You will not be doing this walk in flip-flops. A few folks in lace-up shoes were struggling. Of course, stickiness has a heat variable. We would later see tuner crews, folks who will precisely set the car’s timing, fuel mixture and clutch, measuring exactly how sticky the start is.

And that was not the only thing measured precisely. The libation sacrificed to the most powerful gods of speed is nitromethane. What you chemistry grads know as CH3NO2. None of the higher levels of drag racing use gasoline. Fuels have a stoichiometric ratio. Basically, this ratio means burning any given weight of fuel requires a corresponding weight of air—specifically oxygen—for complete combustion. The ratio of gasoline is 14.7:1. So completely burning a kilo of gasoline requires having 14.7 kilos of air in the mix. That’s a lot of air.

Pure nitromethane**, on the other hand, has a ratio of 1.7:1. That’s a lot less air. But even at that rate, a top fuel (nitromethane) dragster requires 1000 horsepower just to run the supercharger—an air pump that forces air into the engine. And, at that volume, exactly how much air needs to be pumped into the engine depends on exactly how dense that air is. So the crews need to know altitude, air temperature and grains of water—a measure of absolute humidity. These last two are variables and tuner crews adjust for them throughout the day.

Why so much precision? Nitromethane cars run on the ragged edge of destruction. During my day at the altar, at least one supercharger scoop, despite a Kevlar safety strap, was blown high above the end of the track. Since there are no sports involving igniting C4, top fuel drag racing might be the most explosive sport on the planet. On the other end of the spectrum, races are lost by thousands of a second. So, the tuners want to get maximum horsepower without accidentally pushing the motor to self-destruct. Air density matters. And not just with the engine. Top Fuel aerodynamics require a downforce several times the weight of the car. Too much, though, makes you slower. Too little makes the car squirrelly. A 330 mile per hour squirrel is a dangerous thing. Air density affects downforce and must be factored for.

This goes as well for the aforementioned track stickiness. The car’s clutch must be adjusted for an exact amount of wheel slippage at launch. Too little slippage and something in the drivetrain might break. Too much slippage and you are already thousandths behind your competitor at the 100’ mark. Your race may already be over.

And, yes, I know your objection. You know I wasn’t there to admire the precision. True. One reason for being there was the see Britanny Force strap herself into an 11,000 horsepower Top Fuel dragster, and, in less time than it takes for the average Tucsonan to puzzle out what the green left turn arrow means and start moving, travel nearly 1000 feet. Yowser!

And how did she do? Last year’s national champion was eliminated in the second round. In fact all of the class top qualifiers went home without trophies. The Wallies all went to mid-field qualifiers. You see, if all of that power and precision weren’t enough, races are single elimination. Dump the clutch, pop the tires, blow an engine, or react too slowly and there is no second chance. If you finish 1/1000 of a second behind the car in the other lane, you trailer your car and haul it home. The phrase “on any given Sunday” applies double to drag racing. Past success means nothing when the staging lights go from blue to yellow to green.

All of that alone quickens your breathing, raises your pulse rate, and sets you on the edge of your seat. But that’s still not exactly why you came to the altar. You came to hear the voices of the gods of speed. The voices vary with each form of racing. F1 is an alto scream. NASCAR is a rolling thunder. Indy Car is a berserk buzz. IMSA is a contralto cadence. But NHRA Top Fuel? Ah, well…

I decided to listen to the first heat without hearing protection. I wanted the full experience. Mistake. I would not call the 150 decibel launch painful. It is simply a sound that alters the world. It vibrates the stands enough to make you feel like the earth itself is shaking. It feels like it makes your skin ripple and your heartbeat change. Maybe it does. It doesn’t thrash your ears so much as making them seem like they are no longer a valid sensory input. A pair of Top Fuel dragsters leaving the starting line is a roar like no other. Just as Moses averted his face in the Sinai desert, I put my earplugs in. But ear pro or no, you cannot hear that roar and not want to hear it again. And that is the problem.

The track at Wild Horse Pass may not exist next March. It is now surrounded by casinos, hotels, and shopping centers. Its value to the well-heeled world is as a commercial development. Not that Wild Horse Pass doesn’t make money. During our day there I saw it make ungodly amounts of money. But it sits idle sometimes. Casinos rake in the cash 24/7. So the plan is to tear Wild Horse Pass down, to replace it with a cash cow that never sleeps. The same people build glass-floored, horseshoe shaped walkways over Grand Canyon. They would build a tram up Mt. Sinai. Nothing is sacred.

So my son and I started with the track walk. We stayed until the Wallies were handed out and the last invocations were spoken. Then we walked back to our car—covering more distance than the winners had raced that day. Our pilgrimage was over. Maybe never to be repeated. If not repeated, though, certainly never to be forgotten.

**Top Fuel cars don’t use pure nitromethane. Nitro can combust at 95°F. It is mixed with ethanol to tame it down a bit.

#nhra #drag race #nitromethane #speed

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vwdoudpodgl · 1 year

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yokowan · 7 months

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imagine this fucking phone call.

#chemistry #to be fair the name “nitromethane” sounds like it *should* be an explosive

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expertmarketresearchreport · 11 months

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Global Nitromethane Market Report 2023-2028

During the forecast period, Asia Pacific is expected to account for a significant portion of the global nitromethane market, due to the development of the automotive industry and the expanding regional demand for medicinal products.

More Information Visit Site: Global Nitromethane Market

#Global Nitromethane Market Price #Global Nitromethane Market Forecast #Global Nitromethane Market Share

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seat-safety-switch · 6 months

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We all do a little worshipping of historic brands, don't we? Maybe it's a beloved childhood toy company, a kind of candy you can't stop eating, or simply a type of hammer that isn't shit. Every single human being on earth identifies more strongly with one or more brands, than they do the other person in traffic.

Nowhere is this brand obsession more apparent than with cars. For my sins, I was raised in a "Ford family," where the idea of aligning with other products was altogether forbidden. Sure, my parents flirted with the occasional Chevy or Chryco product, but any failure on those cars, no matter how small, was a condemnation of the whole brand. Plymouth Voyager have a teeny-tiny electrical fire? Must be those lazy Mopar workers again, stealing bread right out of the mouth of FoMoCo employees. I knew I should have bought an Aerostar.

Even if you weren't firmly in the camp of a car when you bought it, the idea of having your purchase decision challenged will force you to adhere to the norms of the in-group. For instance, I once owned a half-dozen mouldering Subarus, and my attorney would like me to not finish this sentence with a comment on how I was implicated in the violent gang-swarming of a Mitsubishi Evo owner. In my defence, he was trying to buy the last flame-tipped titanium Tomei muffler.

Like in European royalty, though, brand loyalty gets real weird when you start mixing it up. My own Volare is putatively a Plymouth, sure, but virtually no part of it is original. There's no room for ideology when you have to get to work in the morning. All this desperate tinkering has installed things like Ford axles, Nissan electrical parts, and Cuban tractor engines running entirely off of waste vegetable oil and nitromethane that I occasionally spit directly into the intake.

And that's just the parts I can pronounce: Daddy AliExpress has stuffed my shitbox with hundreds of other components that I would need a Chinese-to-English dictionary and several hours on Wikipedia in order to approach a brand rivalry for. That doesn't mean you're off the hook, Changxi Heavy Industrial. I will remember your betrayal of Jinan PLK Self-Propelled Lift Corporation until my dying day.

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octoberaster · 4 months

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Slugcat Lineup!

I finally finished my lineup for my slugcat designs! Might add some headcanons later, but for now I'll just add their pronouns under the image.

Colors for the Saint design are inspired by @/nitromethane, so go check out their art

Survivor- They/them

Monk- He/him

Hunter- She/her

Rivulet- Any/all

Artificer- She/it

Spearmaster- They/them

Gourmand- He/him

Saint- They/it/he

Nightcat- They/it/she

Copycat (my name for Inv)- Any/all

#rain world #rw spearmaster #rw hunter #rw monk #rw rivulet #rw artificer #rw survivor #rw gourmand #rw nightcat #rw inv #rw enot #rw saint #i love tags

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craske · 9 months

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artfight scugs!!

for @ophiocordyceps, @nitromethane, @dirty-trash-mongrel, angsty-prince and @seyriix

#rain world #artfight #rw slugcat #rw oc #my art #digital art #its so obvious i had a scug bias this year lol

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skyistheground · 10 months

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art fight 2023 day 1! character credits under the cut

Image 1:iIterator group call (left to right)

Nothing Well-Made @meatcatt Chains by Summer & The Arsonist (mine) Ever Burning Flame & White Boy @starstruck-critter Sil & Beans @bitteraerie Virtuous Bliss @gorenography Consequence of Curiosity @lanternmice Sunshine’s Paradise @autismcreature Fear of Those Caught @smokeysflipside Image 2: azoozoo

Azazel @ambassador-blip Image 3: neurons

Dendrite @ nitromethane Neuron Slugpup (mine)

Image 4: clown music prevails

Eight Silk Spines Salem20051

Image 5: ITS SOOOOOOOO ON

Flesh of the Innocent & The Ghost @meatcatt Three Star Songs (mine)

Image 6: oh hey we’re both named sky

Waves Climbing the Sky @ wittykittywoes

Image 7: the sluggy

Void the Slugcat Systematic_Vibes_Art

#rain world #artfight #art fight 2023 #also one inscryption oc but it's mostly rain world so im not tagging

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vesselofmanythings · 29 days

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@nitromethane HOW ARE YOU DOING THIS IT'S SO MANY BOOPS

#IS THIS WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE A COMPUTER USER #oh hey it's vessel

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kicktwine · 2 years

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some reqs and doodles from recently ! kh really feels like nitromethane

baldr (can’t stand him), subject x (iykyk long hair version), and some desert godlings

#my art #khux #khdr #khdr spoilers #desert godlings #I’ve started to let go of my Gotta Post Good Stuff mindset that’s just been. plaguing me for a few years #which is nice because I just want to post unfinished ideas and scraps again #mostly skuld. hi everyone: skuld :)#i love making her have really long hair it’s fun to draw #kh skuld #kh ventus #kh baldr

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radiocataclysm · 10 months

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uhoh. sorry. we turned your cat into a graphical operating system. yeah he's a part of the computer now. nope there's nothing you can do about it. sorry

AF friendly fire for @nitromethane!

#my art #art fight #artfight2023 #anthro #not my oc #i fucking. love windows. this character is so good i eat them for breakfast

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sirfrogsworth · 10 months

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So, in Fast & Furious with no THE's in the title, one of the bad guys fuels his muscle car with nitromethane. It's a big CSI-like plotline. Vin Diesel was analyzing a crime scene and everything.

He was all, "I smell nitro. This investigation is going to get... explosive."

And it makes no sense.

Nitromethane is a fuel that runs these things.

However, if you try to put it in one of these...

It might end up doing this...

Okay, it would probably just not start or instantly wreck the engine.

Still, it's a weird choice considering how many world-renowned car consultants they have on these damn movies.

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