VW talks with NASCAR this year

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KevinWI said:
Kasey Kenneth Kahne drives a Chevrolet SS. Holy crap. That's some whiskey tango crap right there.
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goooooly in my best Gomer voice, I believe you have figured out what Kahne's problem is, he needs to be in a Ford or a Toyota...he did better in a Dodge.
 
Bobw said:
You said you're 21 in the how old are you thread. Now unless you have a Hemi in your garage, or a big block in a Chevelle, Mustang, you missed the "good ol' American muscle" era by 25 years.
Now, tell those of us who lived it all about it....
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Yes i totally missed out on keeping up & restoring my father's Nova with him and him bringing me along to what felt like every car show in the south east. I have no idea what a muscle car is. Please explain. Does it go to the gym?
 
ChexOrWrex said:
Yes i totally missed out on keeping up & restoring my father's Nova with him and him bringing me along to what felt like every car show in the south east. I have no idea what a muscle car is. Please explain. Does it go to the gym?
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StandOnIt said:
How does racing play into that anymore anyway? You don't need a racetrack to put cameras and cell phone nav systems and beepers in a car. Buyers today are more interested in a car that parks itself and gets good fuel mileage than performance. Those days are loooong gone stuffing a big motor in a light car. Today's motor technology is trying to squeeze mpg's, meet uncle sugars agenda(less taxes). The reason Italian cars were always low displacement high revving.they were taxed on their displacement. British cars..small pistons but super long stroke, taxed on piston size. U.S. it is fuel mileage and air quality so yeah you aren't going to see a bevy of new big V8's in the future, but plenty of very complicated smaller motors designed to meet those requirments...guess we can have nothing but fuel mileage races in the future. Doesn't make a tinkers dam if the motor is overhead cam or not. Talk about old technology, overhead cams have been around since the first world war.
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Yep...When i was 21, I bought my second semi truck, which was a 1971 cabover Freightliner with a 1674-270 hp double overhead cam Caterpillar engine in it. It had threw a rod through the block, so i bought it very cheap, and then picked up a caterpillar manual, bought a good used block from the junk yard, and i rebuilt the engine and put it on the road. Still to this day it was probably one of the simplest engines i have ever rebuilt. The cams were in a seperate cam box that bolts to the top of the head, and all you had to do was take a dowl pin and turn the cams until it dropped into a hole and the the cams were timed and ready to bolt on to the head. No dial indicaters envolved.:)
 
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Ok just need some clarification here please: Are these new talks or just old stuff?
 
Matthew2470 said:
NASCAR is a multinational brand as are Ford, GM, Daimler Chrysler, Toyota, VW and the rest. Accepting that fact doesn''t mean that people don't like "good ol american muscle with a modern twist".
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Daimler Chrysler???

Do you live under a rock, or did someone issue a fiat and bring Daimler Chrysler back?
 
Bobw said:
How much longer do you think nascar will continue to use the antiquated technology of a push rod motor?
Nascar has now gone to FI thereby eliminating carburetors, will push rod V-8's be far behind?
I seem to recall a time when manufacturers used nascar as sort of a test bed to produce better components for their street vehicles. Now it seems they, nascar, are stifling development with "old school" thinking.
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In an interview yesterday Mike Helton said " It won't be next year, but eventually you will see a new architecture of Nascar engine."


KevinWI said:
I agree 100%.

I like motorcycles but never liked Harleys, despite being from Milwaukee, because aside from the V-Rod, Harley's technology is stuck in 1955. NASCAR is the same way.

When IndyCar went to the smaller V6 a few years ago, I was really pessimistic because I like big engines and fast cars, but it really has made the series more competitive, with smaller underfunded teams competing for wins that they wouldn't have even come close to five years ago. I think it's only a matter of time before NASCAR goes to a OHC V6 for parity and costs. Hell, you can't even get a V8 in the Ford Fusion or Toyota Camry.

Speaking of parity, whatever happened to NASCAR's announced horsepower reduction for 2015? Weren't they supposed to announce something at the All-Star Race? :eek::eek::eek:
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Ford makes a 4.6L V8, Toyota makes a 4.7L V8, and Chevy makes a 4.8L V8. All are overhead cam engines. I'd be willing to bet you a cookie that's where the sport is headed.
 
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