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And to anyone educated in engine technology it shouldn't be a surprise - particularly the BMEP. BMEP in naturally aspirated engines is pretty constant over anything from the average family car to my Honda B18C6 Type R engine or to F1 cars/other racers. That's why revs are the way to go - you can't improve torque in an N/A engine so send the thing into the stratospheric revs is how you get power.
every make with the exception of Toyota do indeed make 2 valve cylinder head engines, but not with carbs. EFI would be a good step though. Crisper throttle response, better fuel economy and probably better power. But NASCAR would require evey team to use the same system, it would be rigidly controlled, and they'd still have huge crashes.ISLAMATRON wrote:I've nevr seen them run 10K+
but the 9.5K that I have seen them run is beyond respectable.
But they really need to upgrade the Formula, none of the manufacturers in the series make a 2 valves/cylinder head anymore, and definitely not carb.
They just last year switched away from leaded fuel.
And they alsorun carbs because of simplicity and not relying on computersRay wrote:every make with the exception of Toyota do indeed make 2 valve cylinder head engines, but not with carbs. EFI would be a good step though. Crisper throttle response, better fuel economy and probably better power. But NASCAR would require evey team to use the same system, it would be rigidly controlled, and they'd still have huge crashes.ISLAMATRON wrote:I've nevr seen them run 10K+
but the 9.5K that I have seen them run is beyond respectable.
But they really need to upgrade the Formula, none of the manufacturers in the series make a 2 valves/cylinder head anymore, and definitely not carb.
They just last year switched away from leaded fuel.
You are totally correct, I was just thinking about the engines which are supposedly in the roadgoing version of the "on track" cars, but then I was even wrong with that because Toyota doesnt put a V-8 in its camry.Ray wrote:every make with the exception of Toyota do indeed make 2 valve cylinder head engines, but not with carbs. EFI would be a good step though. Crisper throttle response, better fuel economy and probably better power. But NASCAR would require evey team to use the same system, it would be rigidly controlled, and they'd still have huge crashes.ISLAMATRON wrote:I've nevr seen them run 10K+
but the 9.5K that I have seen them run is beyond respectable.
But they really need to upgrade the Formula, none of the manufacturers in the series make a 2 valves/cylinder head anymore, and definitely not carb.
They just last year switched away from leaded fuel.
And all the domestics use pushrod V-8s but turn them the wrong way and they're driven from the wrong end. I sure hope to see real bodies on those cars come speedweeks. I'll watch Daytona but after that I could care less.If F1 now can have all the cars running the same ECU, so can NASCAR who is used to much more rigid control on everything....Ray wrote:every make with the exception of Toyota do indeed make 2 valve cylinder head engines, but not with carbs. EFI would be a good step though. Crisper throttle response, better fuel economy and probably better power. But NASCAR would require evey team to use the same system, it would be rigidly controlled, and they'd still have huge crashes.ISLAMATRON wrote:I've nevr seen them run 10K+
but the 9.5K that I have seen them run is beyond respectable.
But they really need to upgrade the Formula, none of the manufacturers in the series make a 2 valves/cylinder head anymore, and definitely not carb.
They just last year switched away from leaded fuel.