Two appointments today, thank the stars for WiFi hotspots so I can continue working in the car and in the waiting rooms.
Plans for today (2025)
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Barriehie
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I've gone to a NASCAR race and once was enough. NHRA on the other hand is a total different beast.
This is quite an old article btw.
Here's a read...
Don Long Builds The Old Master
TOP FUEL ACCELERATION PUT INTO PERSPECTIVE
* One Top Fuel dragster 500 cubic-inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower (8,000 HP) than the first 4 rows at the Daytona 500.
* Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 11.2 gallons of nitro methane per second; a fully loaded 747 consumes jet fuel at the same rate with 25% less energy being produced.
* A stock Dodge Hemi V8 engine cannot produce enough power to merely drive the dragster's supercharger.
* With 3000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into a near-solid form before ignition. Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock at full throttle.
* At the stoichiometric 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture for nitro methane the flame front temperature measures 7050 degrees F.
* Nitromethane 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.
* Dual magnetos supply 44 amps to each spark plug.
This is the output of an arc welder in each cylinder.
* Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After 1/2 way, the engine is dieseling from compression plus the glow of exhaust valves at 1400 degrees F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting the fuel flow.
* If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up in the affected cylinders and then explodes with sufficient force to blow cylinder heads off the block in pieces or split the block in half.
* Dragsters reach over 300 MPH before you have completed reading this sentence.
* In order to exceed 300 MPH in 4.5 seconds, dragsters must accelerate an average of over 4 G's. In order to reach 200 MPH well before half-track, the launch acce leration approaches 8 G's.
* Top Fuel engines turn approximately 540 revolutions from light to light!
* Including the burnout, the engine must only survive 900 revolutions under load.
* The redline is actually quite high at 9500 RPM.
* THE BOTTOM LINE: Assuming all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, & for once, NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs an estimated $1,000 per second.
0 to 100 MPH in .8 seconds (the first 60 feet of the run)
0 to 200 MPH in 2.2 seconds (the first 350 feet of the run)
6 g-forces at the starting line (nothing accelerates faster on land)
6 negative g-forces upon deployment of twin ‘chutes at 300 MPH An NHRA Top Fuel Dragster accelerates quicker than any other land vehicle on earth . . quicker than a jet fighter plane . . . quicker than the space shuttle.
The current Top Fuel dragster elapsed time record is 4.420 seconds for the quarter-mile (2004, Doug Kalitta). The top speed record is 337.58 MPH as measured over the last 66' of the run (2005, Tony Schumacher).
Putting this all into perspective:
You are driving the average $140,000 Lingenfelter twin-turbo powered Corvette Z06. Over a mile up the road, a Top Fuel dragster is staged & ready to launch down a quarter-mile strip as you pass. You have the advantage of a flying start. You run the 'Vette hard up through the gears and blast across the starting line & pass the dragster at an honest 200 MPH. The 'tree' goes green for both of you at that moment.
The dragster launches & starts after you. You keep your foot down hard, but you hear an incredibly brutal whine that sears your eardrums & within 3 seconds the dragster catches & passes you.
He beats you to the finish line, a quarter-mile away from where you just passed him. Think about it - from a standing start, the dragster had spotted you 200 MPH & not only cau ght, but nearly blasted you off the road when he passed you within a mere 1320 foot long race!
That's acceleration !
AdaptAndAchieve
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Feeling I've done to much recently and need a rest day
But I'm definitely going to make some fruit crumble bars, they will be fast and easy enough (will post later)
I also want to start preparing this room for fridays furniture delivery, but any of that will be minimal
But I'm definitely going to make some fruit crumble bars, they will be fast and easy enough (will post later)
I also want to start preparing this room for fridays furniture delivery, but any of that will be minimal
I watched the IPL this morning. Incredible game.
Right now, I'm about to tune in to England v Lithuania.
Sporting day today.
Right now, I'm about to tune in to England v Lithuania.
Sporting day today.
AdaptAndAchieve
Regular Member
ok, I accidentally skipped the resting
I moved a tall, narrow, but surprisingly heavy shelving unit. Put it all tidy, then tried tug an electric cable out from behind it. That failed, so I tried tilt the unit forward a little with my body in front to stop anything sliding ... whoops, shelves and dvd's slid everywhere, and the electric lead was still stuck.
Sorted that out, then moved a heavy'ish cupboard to the old position of the shelving. Tomorrow I may fit the doors onto that, we'll see. I paused building it so it could be moved without the additional weight of the doors, so it's already been waiting a while.
Just ate, and my crumble bars should ready to come out and cool now.
Yay, time to relax
I moved a tall, narrow, but surprisingly heavy shelving unit. Put it all tidy, then tried tug an electric cable out from behind it. That failed, so I tried tilt the unit forward a little with my body in front to stop anything sliding ... whoops, shelves and dvd's slid everywhere, and the electric lead was still stuck.
Sorted that out, then moved a heavy'ish cupboard to the old position of the shelving. Tomorrow I may fit the doors onto that, we'll see. I paused building it so it could be moved without the additional weight of the doors, so it's already been waiting a while.
Just ate, and my crumble bars should ready to come out and cool now.
Yay, time to relax
England 3 - Lithuania 0.
rascal
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About to go get my booze and a seal for my honky hangi. The seal goes inside the ring on top to seal it in. I think I've mentioned it on here a while ago.
Pay my phone and get papers to fill in for my personalised plates to go on.mew car.
Russ
Pay my phone and get papers to fill in for my personalised plates to go on.mew car.
Russ
SandwichShortOfAPicnic
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It’s so strange, if you were talking about motorbikes I would have understood and enjoyed every word but as you’re talking about cars I only managed to see “car.. car.. car.. car, car, car a bit more car”
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SandwichShortOfAPicnic
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I had lots of plans for today but after another instalment of Mr SSOAP’s parents behaving like completely crazy people yesterday we both needed a glass of wine.
Unfortunately alcohol is a total sleep wrecker for me so today I plan to take it easy.
I’m secretly a bit pleased about that
Unfortunately alcohol is a total sleep wrecker for me so today I plan to take it easy.
I’m secretly a bit pleased about that
JAS_OH1
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I missed the first installment.
Is that what you really meant?
Its 3 a.m. here and the insomniac bug has bitten me again. But I've got work today so I'd better try to doze off soon.Unfortunately alcohol is a total sleep wrecker for me so today I plan to take it easy.
I’m secretly a bit pleased about that
SandwichShortOfAPicnic
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Mr SSOAP’s 80year old dad pocket dials mum whilst in supermarket with woman he supposed to have stopped having an affair with 40 years ago. Is unrepentant, will not be stopping and doesn’t see a problem with this. Is building a little flat in one of the units and moving out of the family home in two weeks time.
Wife (Mr SSOAPs mum) very upset and now super angry, you’re either with her or against her..
Almost, it was more - we both needed a
That sucks! I hope you’re back asleep by the time I’ve posted this!
JAS_OH1
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0h yes, I remember that part.
That part I missed.
I'd be angry too.Wife (Mr SSOAPs mum) very upset and now super angry, you’re either with her or against her..
Yeah I should have clarified that better.Almost, it was more - we both needed aglassbottle of wine each
Nope. DH is snoring like a champion. My allergies are acting up as well, so just not happening. I've gotten by on less than 8 hours of sleep many times in my life, I just don't like it.
JAS_OH1
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How the heck did he get away with it for so long?
SandwichShortOfAPicnic
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Me too but I’m really not appreciating her suddenly insisting on bringing me back into the family fold after being outright nasty to me for 36 years. She doesn’t give a hoot about me she’s just recruiting. Her opening gambit to Mr SSOAP a couple of weeks ago about me included the line “I don’t hate her”
Plus she’s using my husband (who she also treated badly on and off throughout his life) a lot which I find irritating.
She rang 7 times in a row yesterday and then he had to go down there and listen to her rant for an hour and half whilst I sat here with dinner half made on hold because the world revolves around her. Mr SSOAP looked absolutely terrible by the time he returned.
Enter stage left WINE
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SandwichShortOfAPicnic
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TLDR- They didn’t want to see it so they didn’t.
She has no interest in the things he does which involve him going away a lot. Plus he’s quick witted, charming and funny so has no problem sidestepping any clues he may have left.
Here’s a fantastic example -
One Christmas 20+ years ago a long time after the affair was supposedly over they got a family Christmas card addressing his mum, dad and “the boys”.
Except it was a different woman’s first name (not his mums), it was the name of the woman he had been caught having an affair with.
Plus they have two boys AND a girl.
Plus his mum didn’t know anything of the people who sent it.
It was flung on the table in front of everyone at cup of tea time, she wanted an explanation.
I thought Oh hell, this is going to be catastrophic.
But he had taken to sometimes calling his wife by her middle name which was coincidentally the same as the woman he had been having the affair with, I think possibly it was to cover up getting them mixed up.
So when he feigned ignorance and turned it into a big joke everyone believed him.
Except me. I couldn’t believe what I was witnessing. Five of them all laughing and guffawing at the silly people who sent a Christmas card to the wrong house
What amazing skills this man has and how blind are these people?!
I mentioned it to Mr SSOAP after and was summarily dismissed, I was reading too much into it.
I had my suspicions confirmed about 10years after that but that’s another story!
I think they all wanted to believe it so they did.
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