Minimum weight (dry) is 2230 lbs. Add driver and fuel. fuel is about 23
gal 90% nitro 10% methanol.
The car would not fly if that's what you mean.
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Subject: [AR] Re: Closing the loop on rocket engines
From: David Weinshenker <daze39@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, December 10, 2015 10:04 pm
To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 12/10/2015 07:02 PM, Monroe L. King Jr. wrote:
The exhaust of a top fuel dragster put's out enough thrust to qualify it
as a rocket engine [...] engine weighs about 500 lbs
So what's a typical total mass (engine and chassis) for such
a vehicle?
-dave w