Shockwave , a triplejet - enginetruck on a 260 - inch ( 660 - cm ) wheelbase , holds the Guinness book for special K - motortruck speed at376 miles per hour(605 kph ) . repel on a rail , Shockwave racesairplanesthat are flying above it at 300 miles per hour .
Shockwave use three Pratt & Whitney J34 - 48 locomotive , also used in the U.S. Navy ’s T2A Buckeye sheet . The engines are arrange in a Great Pyramid organisation , tilted at a three - degree angle to help keep the 6,800 - pound ( 3,084 kilogram ) truck on the priming coat .
The locomotive engine develop a total of 36,000horsepowerand 19,000 pounds of unchanging thrusting . The outlet of the engine is fitted with a special fuel line that bear in the raw Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel fuel to a annulus - comparable burner inside the outlet . This dumping of raw diesel fuel into the burner creates flames and smoke that make for some very special effects .
The front of the truck is the only stock part , an original 1985 Peterbilt cab .
The familiar twin vertical chrome exhaust stacks are modified with piezoelectric ignitor for light the raw diesel fuel to give rise flames . This truck consumes 400 gallons per Swedish mile during a subspecies . If the afterburner mode is used , the fuel is consumed even faster .
Shockwave uses conventional trucktires . However , they knock off 85 pounds of tread off each one to boil down the weighting ( mass ) of the tire and to keep the tread from separating and flying off when traveling at 300 mph . All - wheel , large - diameterdisc brakesare used on each wheel .
Aircraft - eccentric parachute are used to slack Shockwave down at the end of a run .
In a distinctive show , an aircraft approaches the jet-propelled plane truck from behind , flying at about 200 mph ( 321.8 km / h ) . The Shockwave super C hand truck accelerates from zero to 300 miles per hour in about 11 arcsecond in an attempt to catch up with the plane overhead .
