Electric Drag Racing - WOW!!!!!!!!

[hammersley]

I couldn't believe these cars are so FAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



YES ELECTRIC - with NO EXTENSION CORDS!!!!!



A guy told me what is great and one reason - no clutch... . floor it and off you go... . quiet - except for the spinning tires... ... ... ... can you say



1972 Datsun - sub 11. 46 second 114 mph



at PIR - Welcome to Plasma Boy Racing, home of White Zombie, the world's quickest street legal electric door slammer in the 1/4 mile drag.



National can you say ..... 159 MPH - under 8 seconds!!!!!



National Electric Drag Racing Association - Record Holders

 

[LSchulz]

A guy told me what is great and one reason - no clutch... . floor it and off you go... . quiet - except for the spinning tires... ... ... ... can you say

No clutch, and also close to 100% torque at 0 rpm. Let's see a diesel do that! Talk to EKlem on here. He built an electric Ford Ranger that will blow the doors off of almost anything out there. 19hp and 1480 ft-lbs (he's also blown up 3 transmissions, 3 rear ends and noodled a drive shaft).

 

[ThrottleJockey]

Anybody hear that?



I think the internal combustion engine just died. :-laf

 

[hammersley]

There is no question in my mind.....electric is the

FUTURE--Pure and simple!!!!!!!!!!!! Now all we have to do is let Big Oil make the batteries so they will only last say 1 year... ...

 

[MOates]

FUTURE--Pure and simple!!!!!!!!!!!! Now all we have to do is let Big Oil make the batteries so they will only last say 1 year... ...

Ummm... they only last for about a year as it is now.



Been there, done that - on my electric pickup, a set of golf cart batteries are good for about 10 to 15K miles of driving, before they die off to the point I can't get any useable range out of them.



In other words, $1500 or more for a new battery pack each year. Even at $5/gallon, my '87 MB diesel eats $1200/year in fuel.



$30/week at the pump, or $1500 in one shot at the battery supplier - take your pick.



You mean to tell me John Wayland is STILL racing that same car 12 years on? I was at PIR in '96 first time he raced it and did a burnout - freaked everyone out as no one had seen an electric with enough power before that to do a burnout. I've still got a copy of the video on VHS that he gave me. Got those tires so hot he left liquid melted rubber in the burnout pit.