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    futhur down on this thread is pics/prices/where to get a CAI for an e36, have a read its good info.

    From past experience if you are going for a pod filter personally i've found genuine k+n the best.

    With a good cold airbox setup and bigger exhaust(less restrictive mufflers etc) you should see some gains.

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    Thought some may be interested..Bloody amazing really!

    1) Under full throttle a Top Fuel engine consumes 1.5 gallons or 8 litres of nitro methane per second.

    2) A fully loaded 747 jet consumes jet fuel at the same rate but with 25% less energy being produced.

    3) A stock 426 Hemi cannot produce enough power to drive the dragsters supercharger.

    4) With 3000cfm of air being rammed in by the supercharger on overdrive, the air/fuel mixture is compressed into near solid form before ignition.

    5) Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock at full throttle.

    6) At the stoichiometric 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture for nitro methane the flame front measures 7050deg F.

    7) Nitro methane burns yellow.

    8] The spectacular white flame seen above the stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric water vapor by the searing exhaust gasses.

    9) Dual magnetos supply 44 amps to each sparkplug. This is the output of an arc welder in each cylinder.

    10) Sparkplug electrodes are totally destroyed during a pass.

    11) After half way the engine is dieseling from compression plus the glow of the exhaust valves at 1400deg F.

    12) Cutting the fuel flow can only shut the engine down.

    13) If spark momentarily fails early in a run the unburned nitro builds up in the affected cylinders & then explodes with sufficient force to blow the heads off the block in pieces or split the block in two.

    14) In order to exceed 300mph in 4.5 seconds a dragster must accelerate at an average of 4 G's.

    15) In order to reach 200mph well before half track the launch approaches 8 G's.

    16) Top Fuel engines turn approximately 540 revolutions from light to light.

    17) Including the burnout, a Top Fuel engine must only survive 900 revolutions under load.

    18] The redline is actually quite high at 9500rpm.

    19) The bottom line is: Assuring all the equipment is paid off, the crew work for free & for once nothing blows up, each run costs around $1000 per second.

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