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Something to think about, with something like a Cubic inch rule:
1. You are going to cost the teams a ton of money to switch engine over.
2. Is this going to bring in more people (move up a class, start racing LM's again) then it might drive a few teams out due to having to redo the engines they have?
3. Would for sure need an RPM rule with the smaller engines or it will get just as carried away as it is now.
Sure a guy could do this over time, by adding a weight penalty to the larger engines for a while to allow guys when they need to replace cranks to convert over to the smaller CID's. There isn't a simple answer to this as most things are going to have/cause other issues that will need to be dealt with.
I'm still for unhooking the cars with taking the aero away and harder tires, this is the first place to go IMO. No one can say for sure if it will make racing better or not, but you can always adjust things if it makes it worse. A guy could argue that the overly soft tires at Eldora makes racing interesting and causes drama with tires going away, so just a hard tire may not be the answer either.
It's just not that cut and dry on many of these things, but something needs to be done.
I also remember when you used to be able to race anywhere with the same basic rules, now every place has different tires you need to use. I know many don't go some places just because they don't want to buy tires for just one race. Why do we have so many tires basically the same (55, 40, 1600)
Why not run 1.25 carb spacer , 8000 chip Only 40 s with punch test. Engine size whatever
Hard tires will bring out every dime store "chemical engineer"!
That wouldn't be all bad.....I know a guy! :)
They eliminated the wedge car even though the aero was out of the bottle. And sure the argument is that the wedge cars are back; but that was because of weak officiating and it took 25 or 30 years to get back here.
You can outlaw some of the tricks, and new ones based on old will pop up; but sometimes you have to scrap it and start again. The cars cost too much, the engines cost too much, time for some major consideration.
Tracks that used to have a weekly class of 30-40 late models now get in the mid teens. 238 late models would got to Eldora, now only 99 showed up in shape to race.
In a perfect world where money was no issue we could just stand by and see who keeps making the mouse trap better. But because money is most certainly an issue we need to make the mouse trap simpler in the name of good competition and survival.
Sprint cars haven't grown overly complicated in the last 20 years, and they have cycles certainly, but I think we can see where they are maintaining and maybe slowly up-ticking, while Late Model class is getting smaller and smaller; and a little less fun as we no longer have the home track heroes that can put a real fight to the tour invaders.
It’ll be all the same people I mentioned plus Bobby and a couple others. The rules aren’t going to change whose at the front. Everyone wants passing points and no qualifying, guess who is still at the front, the same people.
Don’t get me wrong, it surely needs to change. Knock some spoiler off, hard tires they check, get the bodies in check, and go from there. Start with things you can tech pretty easy and go from there. And enforce the rule book.
^^^^^Agreed...
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In my opinion, this is not a well thought out idea. Making the engines smaller in displacement is NOT going to make them cheaper or more reliable. They will only wind them higher. All else being equal, a little motor can make as much power as a bigger motor, if you can wind it higher. If all you do is reduce the displacement, this is exactly what they will do. They will start pushing the RPMs higher and this will result in a more expensive and less reliaible engine.
Bingo! And look at the RPMs they are turning those engines are turning. There's a connection there.Quote:
Not sure what this will accomplish. NASCAR engines are 358 cubic inches and have just as much power as our stuff.. only difference is Nascar engines are way MORE expensive
If anything, maybe the answer is to go the other way. How much do the Big Block modified engines cost? How long do they run them between rebuilds? Maybe the solution is to go bigger and turn less RPM. Bigger engines would have more torque, so you'd run a higher gear in the rear end and turn less RPMs.
Back in the mid seventies many late models had a 454 big block. I never heard the RPM get real high on them and they could last a long time.
Big block mods use a steel block and aluminum heads, and are around the same cost as a mid level late model motor. Sure, you don’t twist ‘em as hard and they go longer in between rebuilds, but there wouldn’t be any significant savings. True big block mods are on the decline and they’re exploring lower cost options too.