Originally Posted by canyouheminow
He's right I thought to be able to put a car into Stock car racing you had to have 500 or more productions units to even be eligible? When the fuck did they come out with a V8 car? This is bullshit, how is that Toyota gets to design a "race V8 engine" , but chrysler can't use the factory produced Hemi? I say screw it if NASCAR is gonna allow Toyota then all prior rules should go out the window, let Dodge use the Hemi, let GM use the Z06 motor, let Ford do what they can to catch up.
Toyota racing the Camry is absolutely positively no different than ford racing a taurus once you get past the fact the Toyota is a Japanese brand. I knew this day would come when they entered the truck series, not surprised at all.
I do think you are on to something though. In the spirit of the original NASCAR, not the WWF style BS they have now, Dodge should be running a fuel injected hemi, Chevy should be running a fuel injected LSx, and Ford should be running a marauder style mod motor. They should all be in a car based on a RWD platform that you can buy at the dealer with the same family of motor. The body lines should match or be within a tolerance of the lines of what you can buy at the dealer as well, none of this one size fits all, put decals that look like your brand's headlights on it shit. But that's in an alternate reality. The sad reality is Toyota isn't going to do any more damage to NASCAR than it has already done to itself....... At least the trucks still kinda look like trucks.
Originally Posted by Frankie Boy
The Hemi and LS7 both suck when compared to the circle track motors they use now, that's why. They have a reliable 650 HP that'll run at 9000 RPM all day. I'm pretty sure any street motor given that abuse would pop within an hour.
More horsepower than that
If they applied the technology they have in NASCAR to an LSx type motor, a Hemi motor, and a Ford mod motor I think you'd be surprised what they would come up with......