Tractor pulling
5000-10000bhp
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Tractor pulling
5000-10000bhp
Cedric - I sound like a chipmunk on there. Some friends of mine were like, "were you going through puberty?" I was like, no I was already 20, I just sound like a girl.
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Top Fuel Dragsters are nearing 8000, and seeing as they rely more on straight horsepower, not other facters like dirt pullers have (tire drads, dirt type/moistures), because (5000+10000)/2=7500. Id say dragsters have a more in general.Originally Posted by Mustang
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i said MOTOR-RACING.(any league)
What the hell is wrong with you guys?????
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Its what happens when you drug illiterate people.
(and give them the power of the internet)
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These words shall go down in history.Its what happens when you drug illiterate people.
(and give them the power of the internet
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Apart Dragsters, BMW turbo F1 engine was the most powerful, about 1300 bhp in 1986 for qualifications, you can see all the datas and many photos here : http://www.gurneyflap.com/bmwturbof1engine.html
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Motors are also used in ships, which have also been raced. One of the more famous ship races is for the Blue Riband, and that trophy was once held by the old Queen Mary, built in 1936
She had 200,000hp (give or take)
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tractors have really low horsepower, just high torque, whole different story there mate :P
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dragsters are still motor vehicles
well cap the displacement, specify a racing discipline, or fuel type, methanol racers and engines running on normal (octane) gas produce different power levels
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Back on a serious note. The real answer was the 1973 Porsche 917/30 "Can Am killer" "Turbo Panzer". In qualifying with both turbos run up to 2.7 bar boost, 1580bhp was available. In the races this was detuned to 1100bhp for reliablity and fuel consumption reasons. At full boost, 400 litres of fuel couldn't last 200 miles = less than 2mpg! Porsche did build a 7.0L 16cyl engine with up to 2000bhp! but it was never raced, probably because the existing engine was "sufficient".
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The sixteen cylinder engine was built as the naturally aspirated alternative to the turbocharged 12 cylinder engine. I am positive it did not produce anywhere near what you claim here. When they opted for the flat-12 Can-Am engine, the sixteen was retired to the museum. Two were apparently built and one is fitted in the sister chassis to the 917 PA raced by Jo Siffert in 1969.
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Perhaps, since my information came from wikipedia, it could be wrong. However I do not refer to the original 16cyl engine which was the alternative to the turbo flat 12. This engine was a turbo flat 16. I think that photographs of this engine exist but it was planned for 1974/1975 which of course didn't take place. If a 5.4L twin turbo flat 12 has the potential for 1580bhp, then a 7.0L twin turbo flat 16 may theoretically make 2000bhp.
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That's not entirely true. The pulling diesels can sometimes rev out to 5-7k rpm. The super-stock diesel class can use a 650cid engine with up to 4 staged turbos.
The unlimited class can use whatever they want.
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7.000 rpm?!
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Well there is no mention of this in any of my sources. What I can find is mention of a 7166cc flat-16 that was by-passed by the turbo program. With a bore and stroke of 90mm and 70.4 respectively, it produced 880 bhp 8300. The most impressive feature of this mammoth engine is that it actually has the same external dimensions as the smaller flat-12.
If you should see a man walking down a crowded street talking aloud to himself, don't run in the opposite direction, but run towards him, because he's a poet. You have nothing to fear from the poet - but the truth.
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