Vintage nitro dragster warm up.

2007 CHRR Cacklefest vintage nitro dragster warming up.

[@chrisnizer1885]

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.

[@LichaelMewis]

2:09 you got that right! Bad ass!

[@nitroboy2]

i get all warm and fuzzy inside :D

[@johnevans388]

It's the beast waking up?

[@chipferguson5129]

I will never get tired of this sound.

[@mightress]

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.

[@hank1556]

hey could you explain this? so they start with gas and switch to nitro?

[@mightress]

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.

[@jeffcanyafixiy]

@@mightress 👍👍

[@91Wildcat700]

@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.

[@tzon6802]

ant for a 60s dragster like this around 2500

[@gustavohenriqueF1]

10 years the video was posted and this video remains one of the best KZbin dragsters videos. The sound of this idling engine is a spectacle. Very good audio quality. This video goes to my playlist.

[@devilbrad]

Thanks man!

[@elwoodroadsmusic9639]

15 years now and still number one spot :)

[@CSXer]

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...

[@11secghia]

@NuBz Neither is your "imaginary" sense of wit and intelligence....

[@robertruark8797]

I love it. 😌😂😂

[@ilovejdm8]

Amen

[@waynecrumblin4764]

Nitro is real, god well she’s not!

[@KieranMckean]

CAN I GET AN AMEN !! 💪

[@jerryhayes8011]

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.😁😂

[@benedictroberts678]

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.

[@redblue40rc33]

@@benedictroberts678 best alarm clock in the world..........@ 2am for all the neighbors to enjoy🤣

[@rosskrause3926]

​@@benedictroberts678Yes.

[@dwel13r]

My father introduced me to the sound. I understood the physics. It was a match made in Heaven. I miss you Pops.

[@CriticoolHit]

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.

[@rompn4x]

After 6 years I still come back to this video.

[@dhoyt902]

Make it 10!

[@11secghia]

same!!, the way that car jumps when he wacks that throttle is scary!

[@fatcatt3981]

Same here friend.

[@CarsandCats]

Same!

[@ThePaulv12]

@@CarsandCats Seen or heard this?: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIuwgXd5g96Erqc

[@raymondbanks4103]

The anger that 392 has when it ingests the nitro and he raps it, raises the hackles on my neck, and I love it.

[@531671967]

At 2.14 the 92 takes its first snort of nitro, the exhaust note sounds like war !

[@531671967]

@NuBz 92 as in 392 cubic inch Hemi, That thing is drinking the good stuff!

[@vinceyooo]

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!

[@Godeseternal1]

Best sounding nitro hemi engine I've ever heard. Can't get enough of that sound.

[@theanomalous1401]

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.

[@donwilson5780]

we that have dragsters now thank big daddy, i cant imagine my parts over the rear end

[@mr.channel6467]

It’s what they had

[@bossco09]

Love the change from gas to nitro(2:11) and the responsiveness when the throttle is cracked......awesome!!!!

[@nickfenton81]

I have always wondered why these old dragsters are started like that. why the change over.

[@redblue40rc33]

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!

[@hankdagmar2167]

@@redblue40rc33 It won't blow up, it just won't run. It's warmed up on alcohol just to get the nitromethane to burn.

[@jamesnealwoodworking8133]

250-300degrees at the head for the Nitro!

[@fortcrafterbossbehold9027]

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...

[@Cservoss25]

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.

[@bradcarson3119]

The throttle response is spot on that sound would make a good alarmclock

[@allyblee8946]

Love the change from gas to nitro and the responsiveness of cracking the throttle........awesome!!!!

[@chrisnizer1885]

Good gugga-mugga! Early Hemi, nitro methane, roots supercharger, Enderle bug catcher. Doesn't get much better than that.

[@redclark2356]

I'm a Ford man, but I don't care what anyone says, nothing sounds like old school hemi engine's 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@Silent_Shadow]

FORD guy here as well and I couldn't agree more.

[@michaeledwards8058]

Me too love the 63 Gal behind

[@redclark2356]

@deadboy600 who gives a SHIT

[@R171-j8v]

Ford guy too got a 49 ford

[@toddnelson1601]

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.

[@coollasice4175]

There's nothing else in this world that sounds better than this.

[@gregorytimmons4777]

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.

[@DTittle]

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".

[@TheErilaz]

Why toluene?

[@DirtNastyCivilian]

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.

[@jayh9635]

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!

[@BLJuhl]

dig those valve cover vent breathers, we don’t need no stinking catch cans!

[@45x45bw]

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

[@LB-uq1bc]

392 Hemi at its best. 390 horse motor out of big cars, turned into a monster. Amazing.

[@WizardOfChicamunga]

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

[@stevehammel2939]

I still get goosebumps from listening to these 60's top fuel dragsters

[@YZ250W1]

Leaves me speechless, that sound is incredible!

[@ziggassedup]

i don't think it gets any better,i love the sound of nitro in the morning

[@eyeballdude]

2:15 Goes from pissed off to pure evil and I’m in heaven 🥰

[@DS-ss396]

Just plain wicked when he switches it from gasoline to nitromethane!

[@BeachBoysRemembered]

D S ... They start up on alcohol ...

[@sethwatson8952]

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.

[@x-man5056]

@@BeachBoysRemembered So started on alcohol then switched to nitro? What was the small hose/cord disconnected from the supercharger?

[@perfectcell7995]

@@x-man5056 an impact tool to turn the engine

[@x-man5056]

@@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.

[@marioturkalj3126]

Oh man.....that throttle response.....and sound.....👹💪

[@frosty1too]

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.....

[@NM-eb5ej]

That's the ceral with snap,crackle and pop!

[@danf321]

Ahh...those were the good ‘ol days.

[@kirkconway]

theres nothing like a nice running 392 hemi. the only other one that's similar is a Ford 427 Cammer.

[@dmpyron2]

***** 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!

[@thegreenerthemeaner]

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.

[@squawk3120]

There isn’t anything motorized cooler than this.

[@goofball966]

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

[@devilbrad]

Thanks! Can't believe I took this video almost 14 years ago!

[@Zeriouslly]

Great camerawork mate! Just point and shoot and let the nitro provide the chills up my spine...

[@Moparvanman]

After ten years I still come back to this amasing video

[@tomsurfing007]

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 .

[@billville111]

I was there and 17 years old. and yes it was awesome and those fantastic Irwindale hamburgers turned into in and out burger.

[@RacersUnited]

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.

[@alfredvigilotti3709]

Love front engine fuelers ,, Fairlane looks good too 🏁

[@CSXer]

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!!!!

[@68mustangmustang77]

This never gets old! 🍻

[@GunBroker100]

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!!!

[@Lotum4n]

I can just imagine my eyes burning and my heart trumping when the butterfly's opened .

[@leonardmartin4386]

I've watched this video a few times. and it gust gets more awesome every time.

[@kevinharber4115]

A flash back to the 70s, Thanks. Sounds real good.

[@turboboy0]

@2:08 the transition to nitro starts. Gotta love the change in the exhaust notes.

[@73sebrougham]

the most insane sound ever god damn i love it

[@frosty1too]

still addicted to this one.... just can't get enough..

[@ralphmoore69er]

Pure Americana. I love the look of that blown 392 hemi.The sound is absolutely a joy to hear. Great video.

[@FurbyFan-bx5bd]

That thing would make me go dead in 10 seconds

[@NissanTy]

Look how that car jumped when the pit guy revved the car lol. Love the transition from alcohol to nitro methane

[@OverlandOne]

What a beautiful sound!

[@jamescox6077]

AMEN

[@marivecmontreuil5684]

I wouldn't sit back there unless it had a strap on the blower !!!

[@rifflenut1484]

Marivec Montreuil years ago nobody had came up with the idea of a strap

[@SamK-vk7kb]

When an 11 year old video comes up in the feed...

[@jillsmcfarland2001]

Search for hours looking for hemi nitro front end dragsters.

[@tommccallan8802]

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

[@stevehammel2939]

I grew up with drag racing in the early sixties. The cars back then had soul. Today's drag racing bores me.

[@frosty1too]

I never get tired of this.....

[@C_Castillo]

I could happily fall asleep to this nitro breathing hulking engine, love its little super whine, imagine this was his daily commuter

[@rabokarabekian409]

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.

[@Joetrout]

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!

[@NickiesAdventureChannel]

Loving these 12 year posts you tube is sending me ! Amazing video thanks

[@70stunes71]

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!

[@ColdSmokes]

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

[@justicelut]

Love the nitro cackle when he switches over!

[@Peter-V_00]

Nothing like it when the nitro hits the cylinders, love it!!

[@392hemia100]

Mastodon motors FOREVER Baby!!!

[@louswire]

he pulled the gas line off... and she turns into a firebreathing MONSTER!!! LOVE IT

[@maro69camaro]

Omg I love nitro. The whole attitude of that motor changes. Just sounds sinister

[@69moparman]

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!

[@BoxcarBill]

This is the best gas to nitro video there is.

[@kevinbourgeois9310]

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

[@DEATHTRAPHOTRODS]

I think Bill Pitts is the FATHER OF CACKLE CARS!!! LOVE IT!!

[@91Wildcat700]

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.

[@jameslahee9874]

Nice build sounds awesome vintage monster

[@robertinscoe2379]

Whenever i watch this video the song Down with the Sickness is playing in my head. Just gotta love this

[@WernerGampert]

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.

[@ali37]

You just can't beat that sound !

[@mirichclan9385]

Love that crossover baseball bat in aluminum trash can going nuts been watching this video for years godspeed

[@chargerdave2046]

Wow good thing i was sitting on the toilet when i watched this beast.

[@dmpyron2]

Charger Dave Wait until you hear a blower go off at 1000 ft. A real blower explosion. With parts going into the sky!

[@Lighthead440]

the fuel change over awsum,love the instant throttle,nice clip

[@392hemia100]

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. : )

[@Faan-iv3li]

2:35 when he flipped that throttle, my ancestors just woke up from afterlife

[@agentk8263]

Without a doubt,The King of Cackle!!!!

[@llewvirtue861]

Those were the true days of drag racing, balls Vs cheque book

[@creativethinkerschannel9938]

AMAZING!! Love hearing the motor change !!

[@SuperKONR]

JEEZUS I LOVE the sound of superchargers in the morning mixed with the smell of burning rubber and nitro, Thanks for the vid!

[@johnmarshall4442]

I'v been a A&P for 26 years, worked replacing jet engine's and running them . BUT THIS IS JUST PLAIN BAD ASS .

[@frosty1too]

I never get tired of this one...

[@frosty1too]

Some things never grow old....

[@mrt9781]

This video never gets old . ❤️

[@Mikeyyyy_L]

Still listening in 2024!!

[@devilbrad]

Ha ha, thanks me too! I cant believe this has been up for 16 years now and almost to 1 million views!

[@jimdavidson5208]

Ol' boys shirt is untucked. I was waiting for it to get sucked into the blower belt, LOL.

[@Jeepmon]

Thats a bad ass motor.. Thanks for sharing Brad...

[@michaelteeple8704]

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.

[@jamesnealwoodworking8133]

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?

[@CobandPeaz89]

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 :)

[@Maraud3r43]

Man It took some HUGE balls to drive those back in the day!

[@jeffcanyafixiy]

Wicked!! 👍👍 I'd like to have that on a sound loop to fall asleep at night.

[@troyadamson8618]

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.

[@pro-seriesfabrication3810]

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.

[@Joetrout]

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.