Over the last 75 years, hot rodders have tried souping-up their engines with every possible exotic fuel and power additive. After trial and error, they settled on nitromethane—a dry-cleaning solvent ...

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NHRA teams pay $1800 for a 40-gallon drum of nitromethane, so they’re paying $45 a gallon—and that’s a group discount negotiated for the entire racing season. Every single run consumes 14 gallons of ...

Johansson and Sternhoff 1 have shown that the detonation light from some TNT-based explosives is suppressed under pressure from an externally produced shock wave. We have observed similar behaviour in ...

They are considered the kings of the sport-the supercharged and nitromethane-sniffing internal combustion beasts that literally stomp the ground and push a 2,300-pound land rocket on 1,000-foot runs ...