Spike
Team Owner
Stenhouse puts the #17 in victory lane today. Book it.
Phoenix Pre-race Race Thread
- Thread starter dpkimmel2001
- Start date
I missed what Kyle said about the Toyota engine. I know it's valvetrain but did he say what part specifically is failing? It seems the Toyota's were plagued valvetrain issues last year you'd figure they'd have resolved it in the off-season.
Charlie Spencer
Road courses and short tracks.
Then he needs to do a lot better than he did yesterday.
FenderBumper
The "good old days" ??
IMO, all these guys use valve springs as an excuse. Joe Gibbs said the problem was overheating in certain section of the motor, and it's now fixed.
StandOnIt
Farm Truck
What he said is that the problems began when Gibbs quit building their own engines and started buying them from Toyota Racing Development. I agree totally, hard to chew on somebody when you are not signing their check.
Charlie Spencer
Road courses and short tracks.
Is there going to be a separate race thread, or are we going to keep using this one?
ted@economy
in the interest of equal time
Wow Greg , check out the babes around this 'party' truck. Pretty nice ,eh ?
dpkimmel2001
Team Owner
Start a new one. I had just created this for a pre-race race thread.
TRD is based out here somewhere and from what I can tell they were having rocker arm failures. I think JGR is having similar issues. Kenseth and Busch had engine problems at Daytona and now Denny and Kyle go to the rear for an engine changes.
StandOnIt
Farm Truck
Yeah that is another problem headquarters of TRD is in Cali-f-ya and the team is over on the east coast.