Oh yeah, that's the shit right there. The change-over is the most awesome sound in all of motorsports. If it doesn't give you goosebumps then you must be dead inside.
And GOD said "Let there be NITRO!" And GOD smelled the NITRO and HE said it was good... And on the seventh day GOD shouted SUNDAY!!SUNDAY!! SUNDAY!!! And top fuel drag racing was born...
10 years the video was posted and this video remains one of the best UA-cam dragsters videos. The sound of this idling engine is a spectacle. Very good audio quality. This video goes to my playlist.
It starts on methanol to warm up, that the pump for nitromethane is switched on and he disconnects the hose for the methanol. The black hose you can see when it iddles in the beginning.
@larry ballard That's actually incorrect they start nitro motors on methanol or alcohol to get the engines up to temp. Nitro while burning is volatile it wont run unless under a fair bit of temp and compression. So they get the cylinders warm first before feeding the nitro in.
I was on a team in the 80's, and I never fail to smile as I look at the Jack-stands as we weaned it off of alcohol to Nitro, and the rear-axle started jumping around. That's when you know it's for real.😁😂
don't ever break that camera or get rid of it. when someone asks you why the hell you are using a camera that old, put this video on and crank it right up for them. truly awesome!
to warm up the cylinders...if you start it up on nitromethane, the engine would blow up like dynamite....engine has to be a certain temp before turning valve over to nitromethane!
I have seen even new Top Fuel Dragsters need to start on alcohol before switching to nitro. Of course they only need 25 seconds while this needed 2 minutes, but still...
Those wheelmen who sat behind those behemoths back in the day are the gutsiest and bravest men on earth. Thank God Big Daddy sorted it out and finally put the drivers in front of those fireballs.
deadboy600 thats great in all but apparently Chrysler made the combo work. Although depending on what is being attempted still might not be the best option. My father in law raced top fuel funny car for a major beer company in the day. Not a complete sponsorship but lots of cash regardless. He was only a Chevy guy. Long story short I bought a 71 Cuda 440. Knowing that at that point a non hemi derived motor had not qualified in top fuel for more than 10 years, so I set in to destroy him. He didn’t like me either. I mentioned this fact to him only to have his mechanic step up. He says you know why the use hemi engines? Because they breath well. I said oh, ok. The argument was ended by his own team. Bottom line is they all make cool engines and cool cars. If someone hates a ford Chevy or mopar than really they are pretty stupid. Some things work better than others. Some are just cool and don’t work worth a shit. But in the end cars are cool whoever made them.
Gotta love the sound change when they switch it to Nitro at 2:04 and it really comes alive. Nice car. definitely the way to build a vintage sling shot if your going to build one.
Back when I was just out of high school some friends and I ran a '72 Duster with a 440 and TF 727 trans. We mixed our own fuel. It worked. But damn it was strong. A 55 gal. drum with a non-removable top containing 25 gallons of 93 octane pump gas,20 gallons of 110 octane race gas and 5 gallons of Toluene. We called it the "witches brew".
I played with toluene too! Boosted cars love it, o2 sensors commit suicide lol. Look at it wrong get cancer. We went 1 gallon to every 10 of 93. Toluene and other exotic stuff was used in racing as an octane booster in many racing series including F1.
love how the sound of the engine changes at 2:10 to 2:20, it goes from a steady rumble of a tame engine to the en-even, pop, crackle, and bang of a fire spitting, pissed off nitro engine full of kick ass
You just start smiling. And you don't really have control over it. You just keep smiling... Big. This is the primary effect of the alcohol fading to nitro.
This is one of 2 youtube videos that I watch EVERY day... first rattle out of the box in the morning is Walk of Life by Dire Straits... and last thing at night is this one.... both are great music.....
What a trip back in time! We never once dreamed that what was so 'cutting edge' racing to us, and so right at the front in building horse power and speed, would one day be referred to as 'nostalgic'. You can bet, if the family sedan just happened to be a big Chrysler, when it came time for a new family car we'd be trying to talk daddy into letting us have it! I think you can see why... I really miss those days boys! The machine shop I worked at was right at the entrance to Irwindale Raceway 1968
***** Trying to remember who has one. There was a guy a couple of years ago who was trying to build a "Sneaky" Pete tribute car, but the block and heads are in the $20k range!
Music to my ears. Reminds me of going to Irwindale Drag Strip in the mid 1960's. On summer nights when did not go could still hear the dragsters in Irwindale from the backyard in Arcadia 15 miles away. The roar of dragsters off the line echoed off the San Gabriel Mountains .
Since coming across this vid, I can't stop watching it and sharing it. I guess it's because this was the zenith of the early days of Nitro, where you relied on your eyes, ears, nose and hands to know what was going on. You are intimate with the engine instead of relying on telemetry from an on board computer to know what to do the next time. What is it telling you, do you respond in kind? Absolutely got to love it if you understand that level of expertise.
2:13 Beauty becomes the BEAST!!! I love hearing the switch to NITRO!!! Great vid! Love all the hand signals and the hands on block crew chief!! OLD SCHOOL!!!! Thanks for posting!!!!
God, you gotta love the way the engines sound and demeanor changes when switched from Alcohol warm up to Nitro-Methane fuel. They don't warm them up like that anymore. Great sounding old school dragster. Anyone notice the long shift lever? The Mechanic with the white whiskers definitely knows his way around that engine. Hp I would guess at about 2500. Maybe 3000 depending on who it's speced out. In any case, SWEET!!!
At 2:12 right when the nitro goes through to the engine, if you listen in the background you can hear two Top Fuel Dragsters making a run over the sound of the engine. Amazing where these cars have come and how much they have evolved.
I've been doing a lot of hot rod reunions, and the Astro is my favorite cacklefest dragster. Tall Nitro Flames coming out of the Zoomies, I just wish they'd run it down the quarter-mile
I read this comment about 5 seconds before he did that and wondered to myself, "I wonder what he means?" ...then the dude with the beard did it, and I thought, "OHHHH". Wicked indeed.
@@perfectcell7995 No. I know what that was. I was referring to a hose or a cord with a connector on the end. He disconnects it at 2:07 long after the engine is running.
Summer 1972, Wilber Strout let me be with the Rising Sun Ambulance at Cecil County Dragoway, The Chi=town Hustler was there. Some other funny car blew its engine and took out the end timing lights. It was all so elemental. Like this.
At 2:12 is when that Hemi starts talking business! Let that POP > POP my friend! What a ride that must have been sitting behind that nitro gulping Hemi, hanging on for dear life! POST MORE It get's no bettter!
There is no cooler sound in Motorsport than the cackle from a nitro engine at idle. Watching the whole engine rock back and forth on each power stroke it just screams horsepower.
Hi mate to answer your question, another Drag strip in the UK is Shakespeare county raceway near Stratford, they hold a lot of nostalgia events and is a great Drag strip for the old school scene (hot rods, slingshots, early FED's,...and other classes too) hope that helps, see you at the races :)
I got REAL lucky with the audio quality!!! Most nitro vids are distorted. I was literally 2 feet from the front tire too! I give props to my 6 year old Sony miniDV camcorder!
After the engine has changed to nitro and it spots and spit fire I get goosebumps.My dream is to drive one of these cars to feel the power,driving on the track,not only the cackle.
In1993 the late great John "Nitrous" Gosson told me that the first time he'd seen/heard a nitro engine run, he was totally un-impressed and wondered what the big deal was. "Then they switched it to nitro methane and I quickly understood what the big deal was"--- lol--- RIP
Once that fuel hits, the chrysler hemi becomes one angry SOB, just itching to go kick some ass . While all of the brands made impressive street cars, which led to the same at the strip, the Hemi most definitely is a historical icon in the racing and Street world of cars. What an impressive mother!
Thats one hell of a driven pulley. Theyve got that blower ripping. I would want to see every inch of that frame on every run. I dont see how they can handle the twist.
@ITS4390 No, it's not carburated. It's mechanical fuel injection. They didn't adjust any fuel flow either, they simply switched it from running on alcohol to running on nitro methane. You can't start those engines cold on nitro.
The NHRA heritage series still runs top fuel with front engine dragsters (Nostalgia Top Fuel). Blower restraints are mandatory but the design isn't outlawed.
Pro-Series Fabrication they do but i saw where the frames are also heavily modified. These older ones would bounce all over the place, pretty dangerous but they did it.
First gen Hemi on nitro, yeah!!!! I love it at 2:10 when they wean it off the pig and that beast begins to crackle.... Oh brother, takes me back to the days. : )
Oh yeah, that's the shit right there. The change-over is the most awesome sound in all of motorsports. If it doesn't give you goosebumps then you must be dead inside.
2:09 you got that right! Bad ass!
i get all warm and fuzzy inside :D
It's the beast waking up?
I will never get tired of this sound.
And GOD said "Let there be NITRO!"
And GOD smelled the NITRO and HE said it was good...
And on the seventh day GOD shouted SUNDAY!!SUNDAY!! SUNDAY!!!
And top fuel drag racing was born...
@NuBz Neither is your "imaginary" sense of wit and intelligence....
I love it. 😌😂😂
Amen
Nitro is real, god well she’s not!
CAN I GET AN AMEN !! 💪
10 years the video was posted and this video remains one of the best UA-cam dragsters videos.
The sound of this idling engine is a spectacle. Very good audio quality.
This video goes to my playlist.
Thanks man!
15 years now and still number one spot :)
I love it when it turns from a high idling loud engine to a fire spitting and shaking monster as soon as the nitro kicks in.
hey could you explain this? so they start with gas and switch to nitro?
It starts on methanol to warm up, that the pump for nitromethane is switched on and he disconnects the hose for the methanol. The black hose you can see when it iddles in the beginning.
@@mightress 👍👍
@larry ballard That's actually incorrect they start nitro motors on methanol or alcohol to get the engines up to temp. Nitro while burning is volatile it wont run unless under a fair bit of temp and compression. So they get the cylinders warm first before feeding the nitro in.
ant for a 60s dragster like this around 2500
I was on a team in the 80's, and I never fail to smile as I look at the Jack-stands as we weaned it off of alcohol to Nitro, and the rear-axle started jumping around. That's when you know it's for real.😁😂
Is the transition from alcohol to nitro the sound difference I'm hearing @ 2:10 onwards? The engine starts to crack and pop rather than just rumble.
@@benedictroberts678 best alarm clock in the world..........@ 2am for all the neighbors to enjoy🤣
@@benedictroberts678Yes.
My father introduced me to the sound. I understood the physics. It was a match made in Heaven. I miss you Pops.
don't ever break that camera or get rid of it. when someone asks you why the hell you are using a camera that old, put this video on and crank it right up for them.
truly awesome!
After 6 years I still come back to this video.
Make it 10!
same!!, the way that car jumps when he wacks that throttle is scary!
Same here friend.
Same!
@@CarsandCats Seen or heard this?:
ua-cam.com/video/fZMPDCNyQxE/v-deo.html
At 2.14 the 92 takes its first snort of nitro, the exhaust note sounds like war !
@NuBz 92 as in 392 cubic inch Hemi, That thing is drinking the good stuff!
The anger that 392 has when it ingests the nitro and he raps it, raises the hackles on my neck, and I love it.
Love the change from gas to nitro(2:11) and the responsiveness when the throttle is cracked......awesome!!!!
I have always wondered why these old dragsters are started like that. why the change over.
to warm up the cylinders...if you start it up on nitromethane, the engine would blow up like dynamite....engine has to be a certain temp before turning valve over to nitromethane!
@@redblue40rc33 It won't blow up, it just won't run. It's warmed up on alcohol just to get the nitromethane to burn.
250-300degrees at the head for the Nitro!
I have seen even new Top Fuel Dragsters need to start on alcohol before switching to nitro. Of course they only need 25 seconds while this needed 2 minutes, but still...
Those wheelmen who sat behind those behemoths back in the day are the gutsiest and bravest men on earth. Thank God Big Daddy sorted it out and finally put the drivers in front of those fireballs.
we that have dragsters now thank big daddy, i cant imagine my parts over the rear end
It’s what they had
Best sounding nitro hemi engine I've ever heard. Can't get enough of that sound.
I'm a Ford man, but I don't care what anyone says, nothing sounds like old school hemi engine's 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
FORD guy here as well and I couldn't agree more.
Me too love the 63 Gal behind
@deadboy600 who gives a SHIT
Ford guy too got a 49 ford
deadboy600 thats great in all but apparently Chrysler made the combo work. Although depending on what is being attempted still might not be the best option. My father in law raced top fuel funny car for a major beer company in the day. Not a complete sponsorship but lots of cash regardless. He was only a Chevy guy. Long story short I bought a 71 Cuda 440. Knowing that at that point a non hemi derived motor had not qualified in top fuel for more than 10 years, so I set in to destroy him. He didn’t like me either. I mentioned this fact to him only to have his mechanic step up. He says you know why the use hemi engines? Because they breath well. I said oh, ok. The argument was ended by his own team. Bottom line is they all make cool engines and cool cars. If someone hates a ford Chevy or mopar than really they are pretty stupid. Some things work better than others. Some are just cool and don’t work worth a shit. But in the end cars are cool whoever made them.
Love the change from gas to nitro and the responsiveness of cracking the throttle........awesome!!!!
Gotta love the sound change when they switch it to Nitro at 2:04 and it really comes alive. Nice car. definitely the way to build a vintage sling shot if your going to build one.
The throttle response is spot on that sound would make a good alarmclock
Back when I was just out of high school some friends and I ran a '72 Duster with a 440 and TF 727 trans. We mixed our own fuel. It worked. But damn it was strong. A 55 gal. drum with a non-removable top containing 25 gallons of 93 octane pump gas,20 gallons of 110 octane race gas and 5 gallons of Toluene. We called it the "witches brew".
Why toluene?
I played with toluene too! Boosted cars love it, o2 sensors commit suicide lol. Look at it wrong get cancer. We went 1 gallon to every 10 of 93. Toluene and other exotic stuff was used in racing as an octane booster in many racing series including F1.
I did regular pump gas 87 octane and mixed Naphtha with it. 1:4 ratio! Gave me 118 octane! I called it the Arkansas TuneUp!
Good gugga-mugga! Early Hemi, nitro methane, roots supercharger, Enderle bug catcher. Doesn't get much better than that.
love how the sound of the engine changes at 2:10 to 2:20, it goes from a steady rumble of a tame engine to the en-even, pop, crackle, and bang of a fire spitting, pissed off nitro engine full of kick ass
There's nothing else in this world that sounds better than this.
The shriek and wail of a Fender Stratocaster in the hands of a guitar wizard gets most of the way there but i believe you are correct sir.
You just start smiling. And you don't really have control over it. You just keep smiling... Big. This is the primary effect of the alcohol fading to nitro.
This is one of 2 youtube videos that I watch EVERY day... first rattle out of the box in the morning is Walk of Life by Dire Straits... and last thing at night is this one.... both are great music.....
392 Hemi at its best. 390 horse motor out of big cars, turned into a monster. Amazing.
What a trip back in time! We never once dreamed that what was so 'cutting edge' racing to us, and so right at the front in building horse power and speed, would one day be referred to as 'nostalgic'. You can bet, if the family sedan just happened to be a big Chrysler, when it came time for a new family car we'd be trying to talk daddy into letting us have it! I think you can see why... I really miss those days boys! The machine shop I worked at was right at the entrance to Irwindale Raceway 1968
theres nothing like a nice running 392 hemi.
the only other one that's similar is a Ford 427 Cammer.
***** Trying to remember who has one. There was a guy a couple of years ago who was trying to build a "Sneaky" Pete tribute car, but the block and heads are in the $20k range!
Love front engine fuelers ,, Fairlane looks good too 🏁
I still get goosebumps from listening to these 60's top fuel dragsters
Leaves me speechless, that sound is incredible!
i don't think it gets any better,i love the sound of nitro in the morning
Music to my ears. Reminds me of going to Irwindale Drag Strip in the mid 1960's. On summer nights when did not go could still hear the dragsters in Irwindale from the backyard in Arcadia 15 miles away. The roar of dragsters off the line echoed off the San Gabriel Mountains .
I was there and 17 years old. and yes it was awesome and those fantastic Irwindale hamburgers turned into in and out burger.
Since coming across this vid, I can't stop watching it and sharing it. I guess it's because this was the zenith of the early days of Nitro, where you relied on your eyes, ears, nose and hands to know what was going on. You are intimate with the engine instead of relying on telemetry from an on board computer to know what to do the next time. What is it telling you, do you respond in kind? Absolutely got to love it if you understand that level of expertise.
Oh man.....that throttle response.....and sound.....👹💪
2:13 Beauty becomes the BEAST!!! I love hearing the switch to NITRO!!!
Great vid! Love all the hand signals and the hands on block crew chief!!
OLD SCHOOL!!!!
Thanks for posting!!!!
After ten years I still come back to this amasing video
God, you gotta love the way the engines sound and demeanor changes when switched from Alcohol warm up to Nitro-Methane fuel. They don't warm them up like that anymore. Great sounding old school dragster. Anyone notice the long shift lever? The Mechanic with the white whiskers definitely knows his way around that engine. Hp I would guess at about 2500. Maybe 3000 depending on who it's speced out. In any case, SWEET!!!
Ahh...those were the good ‘ol days.
At 2:12 right when the nitro goes through to the engine, if you listen in the background you can hear two Top Fuel Dragsters making a run over the sound of the engine. Amazing where these cars have come and how much they have evolved.
dig those valve cover vent breathers, we don’t need no stinking catch cans!
Pure Americana. I love the look of that blown 392 hemi.The sound is absolutely a joy to hear. Great video.
Great camerawork mate! Just point and shoot and let the nitro provide the chills up my spine...
I've been doing a lot of hot rod reunions, and the Astro is my favorite cacklefest dragster. Tall Nitro Flames coming out of the Zoomies, I just wish they'd run it down the quarter-mile
I can just imagine my eyes burning and my heart trumping when the butterfly's opened .
2:15 Goes from pissed off to pure evil and I’m in heaven 🥰
I've watched this video a few times. and it gust gets more awesome every time.
I usually have a top five list for things i really like, this car just took number one in bad-assery. And still my favorite video
Thanks! Can't believe I took this video almost 14 years ago!
I grew up with drag racing in the early sixties. The cars back then had soul. Today's drag racing bores me.
Just plain wicked when he switches it from gasoline to nitromethane!
D S ... They start up on alcohol ...
I read this comment about 5 seconds before he did that and wondered to myself, "I wonder what he means?" ...then the dude with the beard did it, and I thought, "OHHHH". Wicked indeed.
@@BeachBoysRemembered So started on alcohol then switched to nitro? What was the small hose/cord disconnected from the supercharger?
@@x-man5056 an impact tool to turn the engine
@@perfectcell7995 No. I know what that was. I was referring to a hose or a cord with a connector on the end. He disconnects it at 2:07 long after the engine is running.
@2:08 the transition to nitro starts. Gotta love the change in the exhaust notes.
A flash back to the 70s, Thanks. Sounds real good.
still addicted to this one.... just can't get enough..
This never gets old! 🍻
Summer 1972, Wilber Strout let me be with the Rising Sun Ambulance at Cecil County Dragoway, The Chi=town Hustler was there. Some other funny car blew its engine and took out the end timing lights. It was all so elemental. Like this.
I was at the texas motorplex around 94 at mid track when mark oswald blew the old milwaukee car at the finish line! That concussion was ridiculous!
That's the ceral with snap,crackle and pop!
Loving these 12 year posts you tube is sending me ! Amazing video thanks
the most insane sound ever god damn i love it
At 2:12 is when that Hemi starts talking business! Let that POP > POP my friend!
What a ride that must have been sitting behind that nitro gulping Hemi, hanging on for dear life! POST MORE It get's no bettter!
I could happily fall asleep to this nitro breathing hulking engine, love its little super whine, imagine this was his daily commuter
This is the best gas to nitro video there is.
Look how that car jumped when the pit guy revved the car lol. Love the transition from alcohol to nitro methane
I never get tired of this.....
he pulled the gas line off... and she turns into a firebreathing MONSTER!!! LOVE IT
Omg I love nitro. The whole attitude of that motor changes. Just sounds sinister
There is no cooler sound in Motorsport than the cackle from a nitro engine at idle. Watching the whole engine rock back and forth on each power stroke it just screams horsepower.
What a beautiful sound!
AMEN
I wouldn't sit back there unless it had a strap on the blower !!!
Marivec Montreuil years ago nobody had came up with the idea of a strap
There isn’t anything motorized cooler than this.
Love the nitro cackle when he switches over!
Nice build sounds awesome vintage monster
Nothing like it when the nitro hits the cylinders, love it!!
Hi mate to answer your question, another Drag strip in the UK is Shakespeare county raceway near Stratford, they hold a lot of nostalgia events and is a great Drag strip for the old school scene (hot rods, slingshots, early FED's,...and other classes too) hope that helps, see you at the races :)
She went from all manners to a bad ass dragon with a bad attitude...loved it, it nearly jumped off the ground when he burped the throttle
Still listening in 2024!!
Ha ha, thanks me too! I cant believe this has been up for 16 years now and almost to 1 million views!
I got REAL lucky with the audio quality!!! Most nitro vids are distorted. I was literally 2 feet from the front tire too! I give props to my 6 year old Sony miniDV camcorder!
After the engine has changed to nitro and it spots and spit fire I get goosebumps.My dream is to drive one of these cars to feel the power,driving on the track,not only the cackle.
the fuel change over awsum,love the instant throttle,nice clip
In1993 the late great John "Nitrous" Gosson told me that the first time he'd seen/heard a nitro engine run, he was totally un-impressed and wondered what the big deal was. "Then they switched it to nitro methane and I quickly understood what the big deal was"--- lol--- RIP
Whenever i watch this video the song Down with the Sickness is playing in my head. Just gotta love this
When an 11 year old video comes up in the feed...
Search for hours looking for hemi nitro front end dragsters.
Mastodon motors FOREVER Baby!!!
You just can't beat that sound !
Love that crossover baseball bat in aluminum trash can going nuts been watching this video for years godspeed
Once that fuel hits, the chrysler hemi becomes one angry SOB, just itching to go kick some ass . While all of the brands made impressive street cars, which led to the same at the strip, the Hemi most definitely is a historical icon in the racing and Street world of cars. What an impressive mother!
I think Bill Pitts is the FATHER OF CACKLE CARS!!! LOVE IT!!
Thats one hell of a driven pulley. Theyve got that blower ripping. I would want to see every inch of that frame on every run. I dont see how they can handle the twist.
Nah! That’s a big one up top! You want a small one to spin it! Looks like a 36 or so and who knows what’s on the bottom, underdriven or overdriven?
JEEZUS I LOVE the sound of superchargers in the morning mixed with the smell of burning rubber and nitro, Thanks for the vid!
I never get tired of this one...
Some things never grow old....
@ITS4390 No, it's not carburated. It's mechanical fuel injection. They didn't adjust any fuel flow either, they simply switched it from running on alcohol to running on nitro methane. You can't start those engines cold on nitro.
Those were the true days of drag racing, balls Vs cheque book
That thing would make me go dead in 10 seconds
I'v been a A&P for 26 years, worked replacing jet engine's and running them . BUT THIS IS JUST PLAIN BAD ASS .
The sound of that engine as it switches to nitro is music to my ears
Wow good thing i was sitting on the toilet when i watched this beast.
Charger Dave Wait until you hear a blower go off at 1000 ft. A real blower explosion. With parts going into the sky!
Man It took some HUGE balls to drive those back in the day!
I grew up watching those race. Ashame when they outlawed them. Blower wasn't strapped down and when the engine blew. Well, bad news for the driver.
The NHRA heritage series still runs top fuel with front engine dragsters (Nostalgia Top Fuel). Blower restraints are mandatory but the design isn't outlawed.
Pro-Series Fabrication they do but i saw where the frames are also heavily modified. These older ones would bounce all over the place, pretty dangerous but they did it.
First gen Hemi on nitro, yeah!!!! I love it at 2:10 when they wean it off the pig and that beast begins to crackle.... Oh brother, takes me back to the days. : )
Without a doubt,The King of Cackle!!!!
Thats a bad ass motor.. Thanks for sharing Brad...
This video never gets old . ❤️
This is hands down the baddest video on UA-cam!