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It takes me 7 1/2 minutes to find the first socket I dropped.


A 10mm no doubt


It always hits the top of my shoe which is unfortunately tapered toward the middle of the underside of my vehicle.


I should be so lucky. The top of MY shoe is angled towards a black hole...

There’s a commercial for cold medicine where the guy sneezes and drops his tablet down a storm drain; I think it’s pretty funny.


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It's a lot easier when the engine is easily accessible, simple in design and not covered in years of dirt and oil seepage.
 
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The air displaced from those cylinders in 1/4 mile will inflate a frikin blimp.

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What's the big deal, I could do that in about 6 minutes!!



Big Grin Yeah, 7 1/2 years from now it would still be in pieces and collecting dust if it was up to me!



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It takes me 7 1/2 minutes to find the first socket I dropped.


A 10mm no doubt

12mm is almost as bad.




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Did you notice that almost all the work is done with hand tools, very little with air tools.

Also, a lot of normally individual parts are combined as sub-assemblies. That helps speed things up!


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The warranty flat rate for an engine rebuild said 7 1/2 minutes and they made it.




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That engine probably had <75 seconds of run time since it was last rebuilt. Some warmup time, burnout, staging, then a few seconds in anger. Then torn down again.
 
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That engine probably had <75 seconds of run time since it was last rebuilt. Some warmup time, burnout, staging, then a few seconds in anger. Then torn down again.


While what you state is true in the majority of top fuel engines, that engine never ran. It was built/torn down/rebuilt in the studio to exhibit the process and had zero seconds running.

Most assembly lube is gone within 10 seconds.

The video shows lube all over the crank/bottom end.




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