Ed Bliss Jr. Front engine dragster

Running at Maple Grove Raceways Glory Days event, making our second pass, car went a 7.91 @ 167 mph!!!

[@saleh-dt3qj]

Was considering this as my first car but the wind noise appears to be loud. Still thinking...

[@quincy0063]

just testdrive one. if it is to loud the one thing that comes close to this is a fiat multipla

[@nitrofumes2012]

You’ll never hear the wind.. but you will be super tuned into the exhaust tones.

[@saleh-dt3qj]

@@nitrofumes2012 how's the milage though?

[@Eddiee757]

Saleh Saadi -5 mpg

[@Eddiee757]

It burns so much it gives you it back cuz it feels bad :/

[@OFTooQuick]

Shakes the guys hand bcuz it could be his last race. I respect him.

[@ashlimharrison1812]

True

[@didntstickthe1v150]

Where?

[@OFTooQuick]

3:34

[@steviewander2693]

Johnathon Rinchack lol riiiiiiight. This day and age practically zero chance. Back in the day maybe. This guy just wants to feel more important than he is.

[@Sackmatters]

Rasmus Sørensen SAVAGE

[@isaacdietz5914]

4:15 is what you're looking for

[@pr0j3ct]

Thanks

[@mockemperor953]

Do you look really funny if you put it in two times speed

[@pr0j3ct]

Tucker Koogler yes it does 😂

[@jose.xo_ox2735]

2:26 play at 0.5x and see how skinny those tires got when he hit it ☺️

[@black_2v655]

WTH😃

[@iideathstarii2038]

Jose.xo_ox why did they do that?

[@BenM]

centrifugal force

[@chiranjivchetia5623]

@@BenM physics

[@jacob__weissman787]

There spinning so fast that the rubber makes u delosinaol and makes thin look taller and skinny it's the same thing as a traxxis rc car if u would pick it up and go full gas

[@robbieestabrooke5606]

4:20 when you girlfriend says she’s home alone

[@dymaig6538]

Robbie Estabrooke haha

[@Henryy22]

Haha

[@rahmanhakim944]

420 huh?

[@28BREAK]

other dude got to his girls house faster tho

[@sonikkukarafuto3424]

*insert eurobeat*

[@NeilLB7]

Don't cheap on the differential gears or housing.

[@Ohmloud]

Yep, no jockstrap can help you when things go wrong.

[@natalieuballe2054]

Miguel

[@natalieuballe2054]

Miguel. CasillAs😄🐷🐮👻🎅🇮🇹

[@natalieuballe2054]

M. C.

[@johngilbert1047]

NeilLB7 9” Ford rear ends are nearly bulletproof. They aren’t the problem as much as the clutch. Research Don Garlits’ clutch explosion. Cost him half of one foot. That’s the reason dragsters went rear engine.

[@RR-gw2uj]

I love the bubbling sound of aggressive cams.

[@sethguest781]

Really unbelievable that there's folks out there still running these monsters, I figured they wouldn't be so keen on racing these after what happened to Jim Nicoll and Big Daddy Don Garlits!

[@TripDaly_AndiTripDaily]

Legends never die! 🤘☣️☯️

[@Robocoppat]

I just got a woody 😁. Best sound in the WORLD! Brings me back to spending my youth in the pits at ATCO Dragway, stock cars in hightstown, and racing at Bridgeport Speedway. This would make a great ringtone. So much respect between driver and his/ her Crew.

[@soflodoug]

I love how people run for their lives when he pulls near with the engine😂

[@Thiccems_Mcgee]

*Diesel has once again left the chat*

[@wowguy3562]

Probably go faster if the drivers balls weren't so huge, I hear they drag down the track sometimes

[@rickymacqueen6690]

What do you think the parachutes are made of?

[@lundmark6947]

Ricky MacQueen r/wooosh

[@user-wn2ho5ij5f]

@@lundmark6947 no

[@willyframadhan]

@@lundmark6947 no, you

[@jthompson6812]

Lundmark 69 nah i don’t think so

[@joelubbe6029]

2:25 Worried about the little stones on the tyres... 2:33 Oh, never mind...😅

[@MoxieMike66]

So, not to be a dick but, my dad & his buddy built BB/GD's from scratch in the 60's & early 70's that ran low 7's at 180mph in the 1/4mi on gas w/a cast iron 392 Hemi w/a 6-71 blower. I rode in the push vehicle when I was 5-6yrs old. They built them from the ground up BTW. Even built their trailers they carried it on. We had one of them in our back yard for years. Back when brains beat money. Miss those days.

[@ThePompeo]

1:43 ooh yhea let's get started

[@PureM_]

Still turns better than a mustang

[@drchan5893]

Great video, love the sound of that engine

[@stevehammel2939]

you can't beat the sweet sound of a supercharged Chevrolet Small Block in a dragster

[@daryllect6659]

Even big block Chevrolets like this one...

[@travisburton2948]

I agree, but if you are referring to this dragster, this is clearly a Big Block. Just look at the valve covers and header pipes.

[@happydays8171]

Yay! A quarter mile drag race, that's how it's supposed to be.

[@davidkeeton6716]

@dragracing news exactly right, and easier to get out of shape and harder to gather back up on the big end.

[@naomi_rose956]

This is more fun to watch than I thought it would be

[@maygacamacho9121]

F

[@frankmachotka3488]

Wow 😳. Wow 😳. Wow that's awesome 😎 I love that beautiful. Hot car

[@izzatramli8110]

Nothing but respect!

[@slippycolourplanet]

Its so depressing that the state of racing is out the door, losing viewership while making more FIA restrictions .. im not not the biggest fan of drag racing but i remember as a kid watching those cars fly by and seeing the stadium seat PACKED

[@emorytucker5467]

When the other lane threw the laundry in your face, my heart stopped. I thought the other lane started to break apart for a second!

[@youknoweverything7643]

Balls of steel to drive these especially back then tires blow your done

[@connylaurine745]

When that diff blows up.....

[@matiasturunen2950]

Cool seeing it from this pov.

[@addy6670]

4:17 play at 2X

[@Receall]

Adrian • 38 years ago on some forza shit or something

[@ghshrksidhc5460]

why?

[@gotoomslowstyle2949]

SO AMAZING

[@davidkeeton6716]

Out of 628 comments there must be 150 about the steering wheel. How is it possible that people that have an interest in drag racing are surprised by the sight of a butterfly steering wheel?

[@chucksingleton3708]

Who built that chassis

[@jblissfed]

Chuck Singleton my father built the whole car all the body work the chassis and all motor work and trans work bro

[@boylm557]

My grandma

[@gavingrove1481]

I love maple grove raceway I go to almost any race I can wether it’s my race or my dads

[@DVSNTHERE]

I want one!

[@aski1529]

I want two

[@haveanoiceday1853]

I want 3

[@hydrofps8066]

I want four!

[@iamtuben2]

I had one, never got a chance to drive it.

[@rontopimpanation8184]

Reminds me of if they had Gopro cameras in the 1960s. Very cool!

[@AmIonArock]

That was definitely fast. Congrats

[@BackyardBS103]

The new Toyota Corolla looks amazing!

[@lostinspacetk8873]

When I was younger my dad worked for some regular mechanic shop in Texas, John Force showed up for some reason and his funny car was there to I got to get inside. *I'm dead serious btw* I also sat in the Budweiser dragtser. I was maybe 7 or 8 Edit: for the Budweiser one. He took me to an NHRA race

[@NorbertoMamauag]

Perfect as a get away vehicle

[@ateam388]

Thanks for the ride!

[@jessebittermann5530]

Run is at 4:15

[@Plachkov]

Race starts at 4:15

[@TrackHawkGangs3842]

Dragster are a beast they sound like a monster

[@jblissfed]

Open exhaust like coming right out the combustion chamber

[@santanabainter5260]

This video was awesome

[@davidcaro8217]

No school like the old school baby yeah!

[@poly_hexamethyl]

I'm surprised that more dragsters don't have the engine up front like that. You'd think it's better, since it would allow more acceleration before the front end lifts up off the road. But then I guess having the engine at the back puts more weight on the rear tires, so they get more grip. Maybe that's more important.

[@manbird2184]

Also if there's a fire or explosion it will be directly in front of you. In a top fuel dragster your protected from the engine fire since its behind you. That's why ( in my opinion ) top fuels are safer

[@branon6565]

This is the original layout of the car from when NHRA top fuel began, but even with a scatter shield, drivers would still be seriously injured when a motor grenaded...

[@k0namiman]

necroposting, but, there's a reason dragsters moved from this layout to rear engine. Plenty of racers had their ankles sawn off by exploding clutches and grenading engines.

[@travisburton2948]

Hes also sitting on top of the pinion gear and differential, if that thing blows it'll take his balls and most of his vital organs with it.

[@fntcyfctry]

left exit and you cut across the car in the right lane?, blanket party at any track I raced

[@meekswp]

Because he wouldent of make the turn

[@heavenstomurgatroyd7033]

STFU moron.

[@supercargalaxy8233]

I bet you like those blanket party's when you can't find your regular sausage party. You hanging out behind the portajohn at the end of the track sniffing seats??

[@pingpongpung]

Care to explain what a blanket party is?

[@allenklingsporn6993]

@@pingpongpung It's a really stupid military term. If there was someone fucking up in a platoon, the guys would hold the person down with their own blanket while they were sleeping and hit that person with pillow cases with bars of soap in them. 99.9999% of people who use this phrase are full of shit and would never have the balls to do it.

[@ghshrksidhc5460]

hey I just got my license, would this be a good first car?

[@tonytravers2322]

I see you have a glamor crew like mine! LOL

[@jesusrogeliorobles5476]

Cómo no le entiendo el inglés menos entiendo a los comentarios pero si es my bonito estos tipos de dradters me gustas estos tipos de eventos

[@joynthis]

Scalding oil in the face the way God intended.

[@levivandenberg437]

when starting an injected car it does not help to play with throttle, there is no fuel at the barrel valve and you are only letting more air into the engine evaporativing the alchohol. have the guy with the bottle squirt more in the bottom of the flys

[@MrFrontenginedragste]

I hold the butterflies shut with one hand and prime with the other....and never put my face directly in front of the butterflies.

[@ethannicholls7332]

ll

[@Raldoux]

I I 0

[@davidkeeton6716]

Yup, leave it at idle till it fires.

[@mattg188]

2:27 look at the tires when he does a burnout, the centrifugal force is so strong that the tires get narrower

[@faxmachine3337]

matt G that’s normal for some of the top end drag cars

[@illinoisprospector145]

Yessir! My 35-16’s swell to 42-10’s. Fax Machine is right. They are built to swell. Thats how we gain speed with direct drive. As the tire gets bigger, you go faster. The tires are accentually the transmission.

[@mattg188]

DrMarkofSinMD that’s pretty sweet, so when it happens it raises the car up too?

[@illinoisprospector145]

matt G watch a slow motion side view of a top fuel rail and you will see it raise up

[@Orangetoothpick]

Love it dude keep it up

[@danstephens3344]

Rear end between the knees is a different kind of manly.

[@legit3491]

I thought he was going to hold on to that steering wheel with both of his hands for his dear life but i guess im wrong

[@EcoSpeeder]

Well played Eddie.

[@milesvernon6295]

I was thinking that this looked like maple grove raceway and then when he was backing up I saw the maple grove raceway on the middle of the track lol

[@jameseastwood4984]

How long can you run the engine before it overheats, given that there's no radiator? Do these engines run piston cooling oil jets? What kind of gearbox is that, like a dog box or a manual shift auto (epicyclic gears)?

[@dustinwalden7091]

James Eastwood these run on methanol which actually helps cool the engine. Now I wouldn’t go to a drive thru on it but you can run for much longer than on gas.

[@dustinwalden7091]

Also probably just a powerglide trans.

[@davidkeeton6716]

An alcohol engine can actually cool down on a hard pass. I've had it happen many times. Also at the end of a hard pass ice can form on the outside of the intake manifold, if not it's usually very cold. I used to lean the mixture out by partially pulling the fuel shutoff cable and opening a valve that created a vacuum leak on the intake manifold to make the engine build back heat in it on the return road, and keep the hood closed as much as possible between rounds to keep heat in the engine. Talk to someone at the track that runs an alcohol door slammer.

[@mikec1425]

Why did I read this as “front engine dragster disaster”???

[@louismorgan335]

bro i thought i was the only one, waited for it the whole video lmaoo

[@pip12111]

Right lane walked away from him big time

[@KyleJohnson-hl9ot]

Best grocery getter ever

[@cclracing2647]

American engeneer: i just created the perfect car. Me: can it turn with tath tiny steering wheel? American engeneer: is a car supposed to turn?

[@xavierrodriguez2463]

It basically doesn't have front grip either

[@Dr.Mcstaby]

Its only job is to drive in a straight line really fast. Besides i dont think youve got the grapes to drive that thing down the track XD

[@laserfalcon]

How my wife drives her fiesta each morning to work

[@gregorytimmons4777]

When she knows damn. well and good she should be behind the wheel of a Cadillac.

[@xtremeownagedotcom]

balls of steel to sit on top of a diff.

[@robbyking8756]

We used to call these cars slingshots jr drags are for like 10 year old kids with 250cc engines, not supercharged v8's, see the tires get skinnier when he burnt out that's helps the car actually go faster, they get skinny at the end of the track

[@shitbox7413]

Robby King, I believe Jr. is his name, not a reference to the car, and it’s not supercharged...

[@xredksx1005]

@@shitbox7413 It is supercharged.

[@shitbox7413]

xRedksx, An Enderle injector on a tunnel ram is not a supercharger, you obviously don’t know much about this stuff...

[@eroy5448]

@@shitbox7413 Ooh you actually made me learn something! I tought if they had that 3 red circles thing they were supercharged

[@shitbox7413]

KyroxY, 😎👍🏻

[@douglaswilson3978]

Good stuff.Thx❤❤

[@716calvin]

That’s just awesome

[@johnstenborg3461]

...explode my groin...please...explode..it...groin...please...groin...it...

[@Toxic2T]

LMFAO

[@RenatosilvaMinis-Games]

Top

[@pilotmatt7940]

Was I the only one who thought it said front engine disaster 😂

[@johndavinci9960]

Me too lol

[@marder3348]

I also thought it said disaster lol

[@joedee6630]

Matt flys Drones yesssss

[@BackyardBS103]

*And this is just my daily driver*

[@Coasterscentral]

best turning american car

[@enricocapovilla5515]

4:17 omg🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@cobra_xx2044]

I love like 30 min away from there

[@j5892000]

What was being started?

[@maxbrowne2965]

this guy is crazy ❗

[@nathanielgrant6048]

Don't worry you'll get them next time.

[@atomike7031]

Is this guy driving a 1000+ hp dragster with 1 hand ?

[@qp4a]

how much hp have this car?

[@brianiswrong]

Was a dry burnout requested by the teams,or a mistake by the track marshal's?

[@reetdance2]

my mom always said : PUT BOTH HANDS ON THE WHEEL! Finally i found an excuse...

[@snuklemenuckle8939]

Hey that’s looks like maple grove

[@gregm3406]

The last thing you need at Maple Grove while going 167mph is a parachute. You can stop at that track from 187 without a chute. Long and smooth.

[@salehabi7714]

He sen ol ay haw youu

[@MrMarbleRunner]

Now that's the best game what i looking for

[@bobjones6468]

How do they do a burn out instead of just launching in thease cars. Because surely front brakes won’t do anything

[@theboogeyman2229]

Imagine how hot it is in the driver seat

[@feraltrafficcone4483]

That looks fucking terrifying.

[@croaussie2514]

What is that steering wheel though

[@jonahthomas1071]

That reving sound it’s shit shooting out of my ass

[@jonnykastlerock9742]

You got be but you won my interest!

[@pitbullrcltd6252]

Love ur name..... nice car.....

[@sik59rt]

His opponent just rolled out his burnout to the 1/8th

[@EatMyYeeties]

I'd be shitting myself if I had a differential on my crotch during a launch like this.

[@toddburgess6792]

I like riding in cars!

[@lamboboyy2449]

Is this da 1/4 mile?

[@ME-cl2qf]

Is this at Pennsylvania

[@cj27125]

Totally BADASS💯🤙🏾

[@mauritzgrandelis]

I notice that these engines often fluctuate revs when idle? Why is that?

[@illinoisprospector145]

Maurice its called blower surge. KZbin has lots of videos on it and can explain better than i can.

[@BikZom]

it's scary with the engine in front

[@cloudyy5957]

Why was he only steering with one hand? Sorry ion anything about dragsters lol

[@kingjames8107]

Cloudyy he has to shift, as well as flip the chute😂

[@cloudyy5957]

@@kingjames8107 ah ok i thought dragsters were 1 gear 😂 thanks mate