Ferrari Mailing List: Re: NASCAR question [obviously NFC]

[Martin Stark (MStark]

A couple of summers ago I had a conversation with a "good old boy" 
NASCAR team mechanic who, along with one of his team's cars, was 
apparently satisfying a sponsorship commitment by appearing in a Grand 
Union supermarket parking lot in P'Town (of all places!!!).  We talked 
engines a bit while the mostly gay crowd walked by in complete 
indifference.  I asked him about the cylinder heads and he said that 
they "machined them themselves out of billet aluminum."  Btw, the 
tubular steel frame had very nice weldments, and the body had 
surprisingly good fit and finish.

Hans E. Hansen wrote:

> The engines are manufacturer specific.  However,
> they no longer resemble anything in a production
> car.  Example:  I saw a supposed "small block
> Chevy" NASCAR motor.  The cylinder head did
> not resemble in any way anything in either the
> old small block nor the new LS1 series motors.
> It was sort of a cross between a big block head
> and the LS1 head, without the adjoining ports
> of the old small block.  Another example is the
> Toyota engine - it's completely NASCAR specific
> with no resemblance to anything else Toyota.
>
> Hans.
>
> On 6/17/07, ken rentiers <rentiers [at] mac.com> wrote:
>  
>
> > Hey guys:
> >
> > Paint work aside, what differences exist between a NASCAR Dodge, Ford
> > or Chevy? Does a Toyota have a Toyota engine? I know NASCAR supplies
> > a sealed black box to each car that limits revs, etc. Is NASCAR truly
> > single spec racing or if not, how much difference is in the cars? The
> > bodys are identical.
> >
> > k
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