Compressed Air Drag Racing

[benjamming]

This is pretty good thinking by this guy to replace turbo or a supercharger & still being competitive with tuning still to come. It makes a lot of sense to me & like most things why wasn't this done years ago. It is pretty slick - notice the air pipe freezing over as he's going down the track.
He makes 2,000HP without Turbos or Supercharger.. ("NEW" TECHNOLOGY)

 

[02SE]

It's not "New" technology by any stretch. It was banned by the NHRA in the 60's. It could be argued that there are better methods to manage it now, which could possibly be considered 'New'.

 

[benjamming]

I had wondered about the legality of it in NHRA. What caused it to become against the rules?

 

[userfriendly]

Nitrous and LPG work well together, but nobody bothers with it.
NHRA rules are like women. Can’t live with them and can’t live without them.

 

[Rmay635703]

Here I was thinking this was an actual compressed gas powered vehicle like the little CO2 cart cars we raced in the energy and transportation classes.

 

[Paco Pena]

Nitrous and LPG work well together, but nobody bothers with it.
NHRA rules are like women. Can’t live with them and can’t live without them.

I've seen this done at tractor pulls years ago. Pretty impressive.

Paco

 

[CheezWhiz]

Here I was thinking this was an actual compressed gas powered vehicle like the little CO2 cart cars we raced in the energy and transportation classes.

air jammer, road rammer!!!