1st Use of Nitromethane?

[TopFuel@Lions]

Best to my poor knowledge was when Vic Edelbrock had a 32 Ford driven by Fran Hernandez at Santa Ana with 20% in the tank in...........1949.

Is this correct?



TopFuel@Lions

 

[Luke Nieuwhof]

What Is Nitromethane, Anyway?

Marlan Davis goes into extensive detail to see what makes nitromethane the ultimate power-adder for the internal combustion engine.

www.motortrend.com

 

[Cliff]

That was an interesting article. I think Gene Adams always had a greater understanding of engines than most of his competitors. Every car he ran was always a killer, with maybe the exception of that twin unblown T/F car he ran at Lions. It did run like 6.74 at over 220, which at the time, was the quickest & fastest ever for a 'twice motor" car.

 

[onfire]

Germans were the first to use it in racing....1939 according to Big...

 

[T.Smith]

Best to my poor knowledge was when Vic Edelbrock had a 32 Ford driven by Fran Hernandez at Santa Ana with 20% in the tank in...........1949.

Is this correct?



TopFuel@Lions

The first use of nitro was for solvents.

For cars it is documented being used first in the Auto-Union grand prix & land speed race cars. Designed by Ferdinand Porsche and sponsored by Nazi Germany.

 

[mgty3whlr]

And Nazi airplanes for the advantage.

 

[ol21stud]

While not nitro related, Back before Ozzie Moya bought Orlando Speed World, he owned a speed shop where my son got his nitrous from. Ozzie's "mother" bottle had a Swastika embossed next to the bottle's serial number. Used for Nazi aviation in WW2 and somehow ended up in Florida.

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[TopFuel@Lions]

I was referring to Drag Racing, nothing else about the pineapple juice, just on the quarter mile for all you internet researchers,lol.


TopFuel@Lions

 

[flapjack]

Jerry was a race driver who through a speed trap flew, for what he thought was gasoline was CH3NO2

 

[T.Smith]

I was referring to Drag Racing, nothing else about the pineapple juice, just on the quarter mile for all you internet researchers,lol.


TopFuel@Lions

No research needed. I already knew it and have known it for awhile.