Drag Truck Build Thread

[Cleverfrog]

Gotta love good ol' boys. "Carbon Fahber!? That crap those Japanese cars put all over?! Hell naw!"

Exactly. His philosophy is that if you don't drive a diesel powered car you're automatically a ricer. Oh well. Atleast our 10 year old car looks way more awesome than any truck he owns

 

[daonly1around]

interested in some numbers on this bad boy..

 

[Cleverfrog]

Quick update:
Got our manual mandrel tube bender and 4130 chromoly tubing in for the roll cage. Buttoning up other trucks right now so we can have our work force trucks fully operational again. Also, we got approved for the dyno purchase. It's not a cheap inaccurate dyno either.

 

[mymmeryloss]

Cummins power!

Subscribed!

 

[Cleverfrog]

Good news. They got the power joke (ford power stroke) f550 running last night. Just cleaning up some rust and the lift will be freed up for the drag truck. Waiting on a revised quote from Super Flow for the awd dyno to get that rolling.

 

[aMaff]

This is relevant to my interests:

 

[Cleverfrog]

Check out these pictures of the triple turbo setup!!!

Totally custom turbo setups FTW!!!

 

[Cleverfrog]

This is relevant to my interests:

I can assure you that they can make that car go faster. It shouldn't smoke as much as it did. Result mainly of poor timing choice. Sweet ride though.

 

[repthemazdas]

tight s*** yo!

 

[JamesCH]

Very cool.

I wonder how much power could be added by better turbo air routing...

 

[Cleverfrog]

Very cool.

I wonder how much power could be added by better turbo air routing...

I tried to make my case about that but, all they did was say my turbo is small and said that it doesn't matter. (braindead

 

[JamesCH]

I tried to make my case about that but, all they did was say my turbo is small and said that it doesn't matter. (braindead

Mad lulz. It's only about the worst fluid junction imaginable...

 

[Cleverfrog]

My thoughts exactly

 

[Cleverfrog]

I raised that question again and they said it is pressurized so it doesn't matter.

 

[THE Phen]

Riiight. That's why we never do flow analyses on our high pressure steam lines either... *facepalm*

 

[Cleverfrog]

Riiight. That's why we never do flow analyses on our high pressure steam lines either... *facepalm*

It takes everything in me not to say how stupid and stubborn they're being. Fluid dynamics are very important.

 

[THE Phen]

It takes everything in me not to say how stupid and stubborn they're being. Fluid dynamics are very important.

And that's why they just now changed to EFI on the Nascars...

 

[JamesCH]

Got bored at work, pulled out my trusty fluid dynamics book, that junction is at a minimum 3-6 times as lossy as compared to a bend tube junction. It is probably closer to 10x as lossy as a bent tube junction given the abrupt change in pipe diameter.

 

[Cleverfrog]

Got bored at work, pulled out my trusty fluid dynamics book, that junction is at a minimum 3-6 times as lossy as compared to a bend tube junction. It is probably closer to 10x as lossy as a bent tube junction given the abrupt change in pipe diameter.

I hear you. They don't. They're 100% sold on it doesn't matter. What book do you have? I need to start reading up so I can explain these things better.

 

[JamesCH]

I hear you. They don't. They're 100% sold on it doesn't matter. What book do you have? I need to start reading up so I can explain these things better.

Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, by Fox, McDonald, Pritchard. Just what I got for college.