or the 429 Boss...
Electric Nascar
- Thread starter kschauweker
- Start date
There is a lot of other parts, add in southern base and of course the politics.... but overall engines have benefitted from racing. I suspect electric systems will too. Quicker though I think.
SammyChevelleTypeS3
$50 site donor 2023
That will float just like a lead balloon would.
SammyChevelleTypeS3
$50 site donor 2023
NASCAR has been going around in the bowl for a few years and is close to going all the way down the drain if they do not get their act together sooner than later.
I would like to see them run just a few races, maybe road courses, with E-cars. The rest of the races need to be done with good ole gas powered cars, IMHO.
Hermann
Site Donor 2023
I grew up with the Hemi and the Boss engine as the main engine in Nascar..
Hermann
Site Donor 2023
Race matching electrics on Saturday to determine starting positions for Sunday.
SammyChevelleTypeS3
$50 site donor 2023
Yep. NASCAR leadership started digging their grave soon as Big Bill was gone from the picture. They have shot themselves in the foot and put that same foot in their mouth a few times as well. That is just the kind of stuff that loses ticket sales and viewership very fast.
My '68 Vette has the L36 427, which was the base BB Corvette engine in 1967 and 1968. It is basically stock, mild Crane cam and Hedman headers (big blocks like to breath), 2.5" pipe and turbos out the back. The sound, from idle on up, is pure heaven. Even little kids in strollers point their fingers and smile.
- Joined
- Nov 28, 2021
- Messages
- 209
I'm not sure if we touched on it much in this thread (I forgot what was written about in the last 3-1/2 pages of posts), but "Formula-E" racing has been a thing for the last few years. How is it doing? Are they making money?
SammyChevelleTypeS3
$50 site donor 2023
Big AND short blocks did like to breath!
Headers used to be the very first thing I would order when I got another car to play with. I always piped them all the way out the back to make them resemble stock exahust. No short cuts. I do recall that some Chevy 427s were really popular and may have even been used more than the big chunks of steel 454s they eventually jammed under some hoods around 1970 or so.... maybe even early as 69? Chevy 427s eventually became the prefered choice replacements of the factory 396s for the modified Rosen Motor's Baldwin-Motion and the Don Yenko Super Cars.
Did NASCAR need fuel injection in the first place? Holley carburetors worked very well....To the point a restrictor plate was required to slow the car down.
I love fuel injection, One of the best innovations to happen for street driven automobiles, But a well tuned/built Holley HP carb is something you have to experience to appreciate.
Just let AI watch those too
I'm just saying that NASCAR "technology" isn't terribly relevant to what goes into consumer vehicles.
Other technology is different. The technology that's gone into Formula 1 and other racing has gone into consumer vehicles. I think Honda developed VTEC for Formula 1. The transmission technology used in Formula 1 has made its way to passenger cars. But NASCAR has always been resistant to newer technologies. That's just not what they do.
Exactly right.
The amount of heat energy needed to move a 3 thousand pound vehicle 170 to 200 mph for a long distance is massive.
The same reason a battery can’t fly a jetliner… Or power a large aircraft carrier or large submarine.
SammyChevelleTypeS3
$50 site donor 2023
Could not agree more. I love them both. Nothing as fun than mashing the pedal on a good old 4barrel carb driven engine,
or better yet a dual carb set up and feeling one's back get pinned to the seat while watching the front end ease up like its headed for the sky for just that moment when the carb hits that wide open sweet spot. Yet , these days "Fuel injection!" YEAH! Injection run engines , like a lot of new innovative things in the world and in our modern day vehicles are a blessing compared to some of the piddling things that were always breaking or just giving owners trouble when we least needed or expected. Nearly all of that has been slowly eliminated as cars have become so very dependable these days. 
The Ford 427 SOHC was the engine that was banned before it even got to the track. An amazing engine that one.
https://www.onallcylinders.com/2014/01/16/top-10-engines-time-revealed-10-ford-427-sohc-cammer/
so was the Hemi after it won too many races in 1964..It lasted for about a year or so...
