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29th Jul 2017, 14:17

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Small correction on the Top Fuel Dragsters...that's more like 8000hp.
About a 1000hp per cylinder.
And it needs the equivalent of a plasma welding arc to ignite the fuel at those compression levels.
Hence the massive dual ignition systems.

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