If you love front-engine dragsters ... world of traveling Top Fuel teams in the 1960s. This Tom Hoover is not the same Tom Hoover known as the "father of the Chrysler Hemi engine"—this is ...

Based on the Chrysler Hemi engine, a Top Fuel dragster's power plant uses nitromethane as its fuel and is capable of generating 11,000 horsepower, a staggering power output that dwarfs ...

As Jim Oberhofer, the veteran crew chief on Clay Millican’s Parts Plus NHRA Top Fuel Dragster, explains, the basic concept of the 500-cubic-inch Chrysler Hemi-based engine hasn’t evolved ...

Hemi-Based Drag Racing Engines Offer Sky-High Redlines Top Fuel dragsters and others capable of at least 330 mph in the quarter mile predominately use Hemi engines as a base of operations.

Here is the e-mail: One Top Fuel dragster's 500-cubic-inch Hemi engine makes more horsepower than the first four rows at the Daytona 500. A stockDodgeHemi V-8 engine cannot produce enough power to ...

But few experiences are etched into my brain quite as deeply as when I heard two 11,000-horsepower Top Fuel dragsters fire off ... 500-cubic inch (8.1-liter) Hemi Elephant race engine from 1964.

His bright blue eyes are permanently bloodshot from 25 years of hovering over dragster and Funny ... Ford and 426 Chrysler Hemi customer engines for legions of Top Fuel and Funny Car racers.

The Hemi has been part of gasoline engine performance history since the 1950s and reached its zenith of popularity in the 1960s. It became the basis of Top Fuel dragster engines. So you’d think ...

I'm talking about the road-legal dragsters that came into existence ... Number 68 of the 100 built, this Thunderbolt is known as the "HEMI Hunter." It was raced under this name by Elwood Banker ...

Given the name "Kings of the Sport," Top Fuel dragsters are the most powerful vehicles among the drag racing categories of ...