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Brand new for improving your hand/eye coordination is the "NHRA Championship Drag Racing" game for PlayStation 2. Ron Capps, who in the non-Dungeons-and-Dragons world drives the Don Schumacher Racing Brut Dodge Stratus Funny Car in the NHRA Powerade Drag Racing Series Funny Car category has . where were we going with this? Oh, yes-Capps helped develop the game that will give you an interactive experience in all that is drag racing, from tuning to screaming down the track at 300 mph to the finish line. He promises the in-game cars handle just like they do at the track. He also says people always ask him what it's like to drive a Funny Car, so now you don't have to sound like the dorks who bother him because you'll have vid experience and can shoot the breeze like a pro. It'll cost you about $14.99 to be cool.-Tori Tellem
Game co-developer Ron Capps has 15 NHRA wins from 10 seasons of driving a Top Fuel dragster or Funny Car, plus a degree in software engineering. We have some kind of liquefied vegetable in our refrigerator.
The Big Dogs Live In Waukesha
OK, so you just finished assembling that 632ci Rat motor and you think you've got the biggest motor in town. Sonny Leonard's got nothin' on you, right? Well, the folks at Waukesha Engine Dresser in Waukesha, Wisconsin, can beat anything you got. They build stationary engines-really big internal combustion engines like this V-16 monster that displaces 17,398ci-that's the equivalent displacement of 5711/42 5.0L Ford small-blocks or 1,097 ci per cylinder. This rascal weighs 108,000 pounds and is 11 feet tall and a locomotive-like 33 feet long-just about right for a '70 Monte Carlo, right? Waukesha rates this beast at 4,800 hp at 1,000 rpm, That's 25,000 lb-ft of torque! In three-phase power it will crank out 2,400 amps at 4,160 volts. That oughta be enough to run your TIG welder, right? We'd like to thank CC reader and Waukesha employee Dan Stitz and the marketing department of Waukesha including VP Paul Cannestra for arranging the photos.-Jeff Smith