liquid cooled " T.F. STYLE" alchohol or gas burning engine?

[fiatboy]

A "TF-style" engine would look like a TF engine (supercharger, blower hat, etc.) but would be liquid cooled. So that an engine like this would have a "life" of, say, 4 hours, so it could be used on the salt. I've seen cars on the street with blowers and a fuel-injection scoop (hat). I assume such cars are liquid cooled with a radiator.

[Pro Wrench]

I have no idea what you are saying/asking here.

[ScaleDale]

Top Fuel Style is just a 500 cid supercharged injected V8. Run it on gas and it can go in any street rod with no trouble, depending on your gas budget. The COPO Camaro and Cobra Jet Mustangs in AAA/Super Stock are supercharged and injected 600 hp street rods. Nitro on the road is not do-able no mater how you cool the engine. It just eats stuff. Something like $60 per gal.

Dale

[Force]

If it's a gas or maybe even alcohol burning engine it's no problems at all.

And you can cool a Nitro engine with water if you use engine blocks and cylinder heads with water jackets, they did that in the 70's.
But modern Nitro and Alcohol engines used in drag racing don't have any water jackets, they are built from solid billet blocks and heads machined from large pieces of aluminum and it's only the large fuel volume injected in these engines that cools them enough so they don't melt...so even a Nitro/Alcohol engine is liquid cooled, but not in the same way.
The problem is that an engine block with water jackets is not as strong as a solid block so you have to reduce the power quite a lot to get the engine to stay together as Nitro is hard on parts, and I don't think it's possible to run a Nitro engine for some length of time under power other than the few seconds a drag race lasts without failiure to something...and Nitromethane is very expensive as Dale said and a modern Nitro engine uses more than 15 gallons in a sub 4 second run.
So yes, it can maybe be done, but I don't think it's either practically or economically justifiable to do it.

Edited November 3, 2013 by Force