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Drag racing student club takes on Camaro project, car show

Tech Times - Feb 17, 2012
There's not a class called Drag Car 101 in the Automotive Technology (AUT) degree plan, but students who learn to overhaul engines and fix up cars often want to test out a vehicle's top speed. With the TSTC Technical Drag Racing Association (TDRA), ...

WOT 3 Years Ago: Citroen DS Most Beautiful Car, Mugen Insight Body Kit, Shelby ...

MotorTrend Magazine

MotorTrend Magazine - Feb 7, 2012
Shelby Unveils 800+ HP Prudhomme Edition Super Snake Drag Car – “The Prudhomme Edition Shelby Super Snake pays homage to the top fuel dragster that Prudhomme drove for Shelby in the late 1960′s. The street-legal dragster features Ford's 5.4L V-8 ...

Adrenaline junkie gets high on ride

The Nelson Mail

The Nelson Mail - Feb 16, 2012
My first drive in a drag car was in my Dad's Plymouth truck 19 years ago. It was on a road opposite Siefried's winery and Dad was in his truck doing 15 second quarter miles flat tack one after the other and then he said, "Do you want to have a turn?

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Drag Car books

Jerry Heasley's Rare Finds

by: Jerry Heasley
For the past 20 years, veteran automotive journalist Jerry Heasley has been documenting the rediscovery of rare muscle cars in barns, garages, fields, and the most unexpected places. These stories have appeared in Muscle Car Review, Modified Mustangs and Fords, and Mopar Muscle and won over a large audience. Some of these cars have simply become fixtures in garages while others have been forgotten, neglected, and/or abandoned. Some owners have passed away and left their beloved muscle cars behind, some have been claimed by unappreciative spouses, exported to a foreign country, and even hidden in plain sight.
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How To Build Max-Performance 4.6-Liter Ford Engines

by: Sean Hyland
When the 96 Mustang came out with the 4.6-liter V-8, some performance enthusiasts were scared away by its technology. But those days are long gone. Ford added horsepower and torque to its 2- and 4-valve V-8s over the years, and the number and quality of available aftermarket performance parts has exploded.

Ford took things to the next level with the new 3-valve Mustang GT engine, the 5.4-liter GT and the Shelby GT500, adding even more high-performance options.

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Chevy II Nova: Production Details, History and Performance for Every Model

by: Doug Marion
This book contains 45 years of "real world" Nova history with complete production numbers. Real stories of the cars from the time they were new by the former editor of "Super Chevy" magazine. It includes pictures of top winning show cars and drag racing action, and more! The story told in "real time" by a guy who was writing about, photographing and driving these cars when they were still being made. It offers a vast coverage of both stock and modified Chevy IIs and Novas.
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Drag Racing 101: From Building Your First Race Car to Securing Sponsors

by: Ike Heckler Jr
Everything you wanted to know about the exciting world of drag racing !! The NHRA, NMCA, PINKS ALL OUT, building your race car, rule books, race classes, tow vehicles, trailers, components of a run, heads-up racing, index racing, bracket racing. Plus funding your operation, securing sponsorship, and getting magazine and TV coverage !! The author also takes you on a visual journey showing the various builds of his '67 Pontiac LeMans with assembly pictures that show with time slips how the car evolved from 16 secs in 1994 to a 14 sec bracket car in 2005 all the way to a 10 sec all-out race car in 2009 !! This 90 page book has over 85 color assembly pictures of: engines, fuel system, exhaust, rollbar, seats, and suspension, we also include sponsor artwork getting applied and some other fun pictures.
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900 HP DRAG CAR TESTING

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4 Jet Car Drag Race

Under the definition of "awesome" should be a picture of 4-jet cars racing! NMRA/NMCA All Star Nationals at ZMax Dragway in Charlotte, NC ended the night by lighting up ZMax's 4 drag lanes with the fire and the thunder of 4 jet turbine drag cars creating an estimated 24000 HP on one track! The Embry Riddle dragster takes off and runs a 5-second quarter.

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