Originally Posted by JG26_Irish
A logical question is then why to top fuel dragsters only use supercharged engines. Simple, the time it would take to spool up the turbos is too long and they would be too hard to modulate and drive at the outputs involved.
After reading this sentence it got me to thinking. How would a turbo's turbine housing like/deal with nitro? Probably not too well I'd guess. $hit those turbines would probably end up being grenades by the 60' mark!