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After reading my daily Hot Rod Magazine on-line feature update that included a story on Ford's 1,400 HP electric powered Mustang drag car,I naturally thought about how we model builders are going to replicate the power sources used in those vehicles. That same article mentions the Ford also has an electric F150 under development. Then of course there is Swamp Rat 38, the Garlits battery powered dragster. "Big" is tuning this one to run 200 MPH in the quarter mile. He has already run in the 180's several times in attempt to bring some semblance of economic reality to what used to be a blue collar sport as an alternative of mega buck deep pockets teams that drop $ 50K for a single 300 MPH run. My point is that at some point we are going to want to build models of vehicles like these and I wonder where the scale power plants for those models will come from. Does some 3D source already exist? Then there is the question of how to accurately detail it. We have over a century of well documented history of how to correctly detail internal combustion engine but these will be whole new challenge. We may have more questions about this topic than answers but the comments should be interesting.