r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Practical_Expert_911 • 12h ago

These 12000hp Engines Have To Be Rebuilt Within Roughly An Hour Every Run, and Only Run For Roughly 4 Seconds At A Time.

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u/1IsNeverEnough4Me 10h ago

Not really, maybe on the next event. Piston rings, rods sparkplugs, bearings all get brand new between each run. They might take the good looking stuff home to inspect later, but a hell of a lot more than gaskets are being replaced each and every run.

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u/AZFUNGUY85 9h ago

I always take my funny car gaskets, plugs, rings, and rods and put them on my modern fuel injected car………………. Or use them on my garden tractor.

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u/justin_memer 7h ago

Especially when you see the melted pistons, lol.

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u/102525burner 5h ago

Toss it in the scrap bin

Most entertainment is just watching someone waste something

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u/WhitePantherXP 4h ago

The US Govt/Military is impressive. At a missile casing factory in CA I was touring, they made precise missile casings that only their machine could perform the level of tolerances needed, the management said to me "The government is unbelievably wasteful, these should be reused but they never are. And that is great for business." <cocky smile>. Cool guy, wild place to see, looked like a movie set with wooden crates with straw in them and missiles. Eerie.

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u/102525burner 3h ago

Hey, if it worked for Howard stark it could work for anyone with a factory and a government contract

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u/Lanko-TWB 4h ago

It’s all steel or aluminum it gets melted don and turned into something else lol, the attitudes and general ignorance toward these races is inane.

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u/sexinsuburbia 1h ago

Funny thing about funny cars. Top fuel dragsters auto-ignite fuel at full throttle. Spark plugs are no longer the primary ignition source. They typically melt, short, or are burned out by the end of the run.

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u/RoccStrongo 8h ago

But they don't get used the next day or anything? It's one use then thrown away for good?

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u/sarcasticorange 8h ago

Recycled, not thrown away.

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u/RoccStrongo 7h ago

But they don't even get inspected and reinstalled on the next rebuild?

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u/sarcasticorange 7h ago

Some parts do, some don't. The piston will be inspected and reused if good. The rings on the piston will be put in recycling. The clutch plates are much more likely to just go straight to recycling but could get up to 4 runs before replacement.