Re: How fast can a piston-engine car go?

Wow - are these cars pretty much dragsters in design (apart from the
gas turbine)?  I guess I can search for more info on the web, but if
you had a link or two it would give me a good head start!

Thanks - Mike

Pete Fenelon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Top fuel dragsters hit over 300mph in the quarter mile.  But what
> > could they do over a longer distance? If you took one out to the
> > Bonneville salt flats and kept it floored until it blew (or ran out of
> > fuel) could you get to 375mph or 400mph?
> > 
> > How fast can a piston-engine car go?
> 
> The piston-engined record is already well in excess of 400mph. 
> 
> Nolan White did a one-way mile at 413mph in 'Autopower', but was fatally
> injured on the return run. This is the SCTA mile record.
> 
> Al Teague holds the FIA piston-engined record at 409.9mph for the two-way 
> measured mile, 425mph for the two-way measured kilmoetre.
> 
> Bob Summers in 'Goldenrod' holds the normally-aspirated (no turbos or
> superchargers) record for the two-way measured mile at 409.7mph.
> 
> The "wheel-driven" record (i.e. including turbines) is held by Don Vesco
> at 458mph in 'Turbinator' which is as you'd expect a gas-turbine car.
> 
> pete