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camcojb
07-18-2005, 05:16 PM
This is on several sites now. The car made 1200 HP at the tires, but this is the first video I've seen of it.

http://www.badratracing.com/CarlVid.AVI

Jody
Derek69SS
07-18-2005, 05:40 PM
That's the one at Car Craft :eek:

It belongs to a friend of a friend... I was over talking to this friend of mine and he said he had to go watch his buddy's Model A run the chassis dyno... I didn't get a chance to see it, but I heard it was wild. People running everywhere :willy: ...could have ended horribly :_paranoid
Hooligan
07-18-2005, 06:05 PM
All I can say is DAM!!!! :hail: :willy: :hail: :willy:
TravisB
07-19-2005, 09:30 AM
killer vid, That is one bad A
69rs
07-19-2005, 10:08 AM
The dyno operator had quick feet! He got on the brake just in time. It's a good thing it wasn't the type of dyno that you drive forward onto. On those the front wheels are close to the edge. It would have launched!
907rs
07-19-2005, 10:57 AM
Yep, that dude was lucky indeed. Could've been a catastrophe of enormous proportions.
BC69
07-19-2005, 11:32 AM
Could've been a catastrophe of enormous proportions.

I might be more afraid of the owner of the car than anything else! But its gotta be a nice story to have.

"Yahh, well my car is soooo powerful it broke the dyno!"

Tim
Ummgawa
07-19-2005, 02:03 PM
Our Mother of Blessed Acceleration do not fail us now...
96z28ss
07-19-2005, 03:54 PM
The dyno operator had quick feet! He got on the brake just in time. It's a good thing it wasn't the type of dyno that you drive forward onto. On those the front wheels are close to the edge. It would have launched!

I worked at a chassis dyno facility for years and can tell you the driver of the car saved the car not the dyno operator, it takes a while to get the roller to stop. I bet the car was stopped at the edge of the dyno and the rollers were still rolling to a stop.
camcojb
07-19-2005, 04:02 PM
I worked at a chassis dyno facility for years and can tell you the driver of the car saved the car not the dyno operator, it takes a while to get the roller to stop. I bet the car was stopped at the edge of the dyno and the rollers were still rolling to a stop.

In many cases (most from what I've seen) the dyno operator and person driving the car are one in the same. I think the guys meant the car driver was the one who saved it; once that car is off the roller stopping the roller doesn't help stop the car at all.

Jody
JamesJ
07-19-2005, 08:58 PM
anyone have another link?
JamesJ
07-20-2005, 10:56 AM
the link over at PT works
jeff s
07-20-2005, 03:03 PM
Yep, Car Craft, we were there, coulda been horrible
Derek69SS
07-20-2005, 03:23 PM
Jeff, were you watching when it happened?

I was a couple blocks away, sitting in the shade, sucking down a cold beer... wish I could have seen that :eek: