I-80 Saturday night updates

[ptown]

What I do know is that he put on one hell of a show. He passed every single car on the track, many of them twice, and he did so because he just flat a$$ out drove everyone. Every driver was capable of doing what he did, but he was only one willing to hang it out on the top, and he did it to perfection. I haven't always been the biggest BP fan because he's made some wreckless decisions on-track in the past, but what he did last night was downright impressive.

It was those funny tars.

[getinit]

Centeroff, get with the times. The old tell tale tachs you're speaking of are old news these days. Actually for the last 10 or so years they have had tachs out that replay the whole time from when you reset it. Apparently now they have the whole gauge panel that works the same way. Why would they need to cover anything up? The guy who owned the engine told him to run it and not stop, so what's to cover up?

[getinit]

I was standing on the catwalk across from the flag stand and never heard Bobby floating the valves. The front straight had some whoops up by the wall, so the RPMs were bouncing, but it didn't seem excessive IMO. I don't know if he was actually turning more RPMs or not, but keep in mind, if he was geared similar to everyone else, he would have been turning more just because he was ripping the top and carrying a lot more straightaway speed.

As to when the engine went south, like billet said, around lap 74 it let out a big puff of smoke entering turn 3, and when he came by that time the engine pitch had changed like it had dropped a cylinder. The last time he came by there were sparks (engine parts) coming out of the headers.

I've had a couple of engines get hot enough to diesel, and they never lost cylinders or spit parts out...they just kinda slowed down, so I don't think overheating caused it. There were many cars overheating though, and maybe Bobby's was, but I still think that's what caused it to break. Either way, it makes no difference. I'm just speculating, just like the rest of you...none of us know actually happened.

What I do know is that he put on one hell of a show. He passed every single car on the track, many of them twice, and he did so because he just flat a$$ out drove everyone. Every driver was capable of doing what he did, but he was only one willing to hang it out on the top, and he did it to perfection. I haven't always been the biggest BP fan because he's made some wreckless decisions on-track in the past, but what he did last night was downright impressive.

They said it was another broken valve in the dod article.

[getinit]

I bet ol Big C is shakin his head and sayin....put a Clements Chevy in that boy's car!

Sounds like it'll have a Pro Power chevy in it at davenport. I'm assuming since they said it's one of Bob's engines.

[Illtsate32]

Sounds like it'll have a Pro Power chevy in it at davenport. I'm assuming since they said it's one of Bob's engines.

Seen it on instagram the distributor is in the back! Lol

[Centeroff]

They show much more than that. You can print a graph of every thing the engine done while running. These new tachs are silly. If they ever go to to fuel injection, the data will be crazy

[billetbirdcage]

1. Could it have knocked a hose off or put a hole in something on the cooling system? Sure, it can do so and run the water out and the water temp never really change much (Yes I have personally done it and I stare at guages a lot - see #2 and #3)

2. Should the temp have climbed if it was leaking water, it depends how fast the water comes out. It can climb if it goes out slow enough it's still reading water. Another thing is pretty much everyone runs a pressure sensor in the cooling system that goes off when the system gets to 5# of pressure as it warms up, total loss of coolant will turn the light on and you know there is no water in the engine.

3. Could it have read around 210 on temp with no coolant in the engine? Yes, they can read the steam in the engine and read right about the temp water boils which is 212. But as stated in #2, the coolant light would tell you there is no pressure in system, thus no water.

4. Could it have be running on or dieseling? Sure, but it did not sound like that from where I was in just out of turn 2. From where I was it sounding like it was just idling, nothing like run on or boiling an engine.

5. Was there a smell from the engine at any time? Not that I got, but that don't mean it didn't happen.

6. Right after the smoke, you could hear it was down a cylinder and kept getting worse as far was power and engine was laboring to accelerate the longer he went. But nothing or any signs before the smoke appeared on lap 75. I actually thought he was gonna survive it and maybe hold on to the lead barely, but 2 laps or so later it really took a nose dive on power.

7. The running on after what I believed was a dropped valve, was most likely a bad ignition switch that was stuck in the on position. I just thought it was strange so was the only reason I mentioned it.

Again, can't say that was what happened just what I saw and heard and made assumptions of what I perceived that I saw/heard. Not a bobby hater or super fan, but I think most drivers or teams most likely would have kept going if the only signs of problems actually showed up at the lap 75 mark that I saw. So you can't really fault bobby under those circumstances.

[Cardirt0]

Will the motor went Boom. and thats up to them if they want to tell us what happened. To bad put on a show till it happened.

[a25rjr]

Sounds like it'll have a Pro Power chevy in it at davenport. I'm assuming since they said it's one of Bob's engines.

Woooooweeeeee......Big C will be spittin fire!

On a serious note......where is Pro Power in all this, surely John has some backup engines for emergencies!

[Mindwalker]

Imo he is by far the most exciting driver out there!

Out where? Hahhahahahaha

[Mindwalker]

u sit around all day drinking ur gin and juice listing to snoop dogg thinking he is coming to ur birthday party but it aint going to happen he hates old white men! is that what u mean by having blinders on?

Snoop changed his name to lion something or other but you got me mixed up with may second cuisines dads brothers mother.thos ok tho.

No, I just think you have blinders on, thats all.

[MI Dirt Fan]

Not sure what spiderma4 is talking about. He probably don't even know... Lol

[Chris Thomason]

I happen to love gin and juice. Got some now watchin hee yaw on rfd. Reckon he has trouble with that?

[Mindwalker]

Not sure what spiderma4 is talking about. He probably don't even know... Lol

He sounds pretty convincing. Lol, I almost believed it.

[Mindwalker]

Not dam thing wrong with hee haw!! Id love to get that Lulu.