NASCAR shooting to implement fuel injection in 2011
17 Comments Quote selected text Published January 24th, 2010 in NASCAR News
By the time the 2011 racing season gets under way, the only place to find a carburetor in the Sprint Cup Series might be in NASCAR’s Hall of Fame. Officials said today that they hope to replace carburetors with fuel injection, and have been testing potential systems with an eye toward making the change as soon as possible. “We are in the process of the development and the testing and have been for probably six or eight months,”
” said Robin Pemberton, vice president of competition for NASCAR. The easy part is to just build the fuel injection system. The thing that we need to put into play is how are we going to regulate it, and what’s going to be fair for everybody?”
NASCAR is one of the only racing organizations that continues to use carburetors in its series. Fuel injection is a more accurate, and efficient, way of delivering fuel into the engine. It has been around since the 1950s and has been in place on all passenger cars in the United States since the late 1980s. Pemberton said some Cup teams have already been developing and working with systems with the expectation that such a move would eventually be made. Some teams, Pemberton said, “do have track time & on their early production or early prototype fuel injection system. “So our goal is to shoot for 2011,” he said. “I think that’s pretty aggressive. “We are pushing hard.”
It’s about time NASCAR catches up with the rest of the industry. Heck Sprintcars (more specifically those that run in the WoO) have been running Fuel Injection for a long time, and well those cars are little more then a cage and motor so if they can run it NASCAR sure as heck ought to be able to.
im just amazed NASCAR is being pro active instead of re active for a change
As long as u can still smell that octane when they go around on pace laps. I don’t care what they run under the hood
I wonder how this will affect restrictor plate races. I’m guessing that the restrictor plates will go away and it’ll be computer controlled.
Stephen Vinson wrote:
It depends what type of FI they use.
See this is what i didnt expect from nascar.. The hole point of “stock car” racing is to keep the car stock as possable.. Well with to days age and w tecnoligy nascar as we know it wont be in about 5 years… With FI and the NEW COT ( witch im glad that they r getting ride of that rediculos rice burner wing) they might be able to get better fuel mileage w FI..
Who knows what they will do next.. As long as the racing gets better im ok w it.
rice burner wing?…that’s an insult to one of the pioneers in racing, Jim Hall, who used a wing on his Chaparral race cars in the 60’s…
Werner wrote:
Not to mention out of the 4 models in the Cup series the Ford, Chevy & Dodge all have Wings, whereas the Toyota doesn’t have anything on their street-cars.
Plus the fact that on street-cars there are just as many “Ricer” Spoilers as there are wings.
i’ve got the wing on my Mustang….
hahaha i was wondering how many coments i would get off that COment i made. Just dont like the wing.. IT belongs on a F1 or IRl car not a stock car
just as a spoiler doesn’t belong on a “stock” car…they ran without them before and it made NASCAR famous…since the spoiler was put on a car it’s created nothing but problems…remember the years when each mfg had a different height…then there was that Pontiac wing that was lower in the center…
btw…how about those “winged” Daytonas and Superbirds…
races that would need a restrictor plate would be easy, smaller fuel injectors. i think if they are gonna do this, they should go to a smaller engine maybe 5.5l and of lower weight, better distribution of weight, and possible higher rpms to make them screamers. but since direct injection is the new thing, why not go straight to that. it would be even better, emission, fuel consumption, cooler running, better power. gm and toyota already produce DI engines in their luxury brands. strangely, ford has opted not to invest in DI yet and dodge cant be bothered cuz they have no money.
this is one lame a** web site these same storie have been up all week if not longer. how about some new news.
There is a difference between a wing and a rice burner wing, what nascar has now is the latter
doug wrote:
Other then some Grand-Am stuff from Yesterday and Danica’s schedule (really who cares about that?) this week has been pretty calm on the NASCAR racing news front.
Leave the car’s alone, let the drivers do there job and drive the car with out all the crap they are handed out. All the babys that can’t drive with the big boys get out. The bumping and drafting get it all back. Let’s have some excitement back. Bring back the real sport of NASCAR. Also, you can not tell me that out of all the drivers and car owners in NASCARR that ONLY Jimmie Johnson is the only one out on the track that can win. There is something wrong there. Why not change the race to The Jimmie Johnson Race of the Week. Make it all about him. I AM TIRED OF SEEING HIM WIN ALL THE TIME. There are to many drivers that a better than him. Drivers show your stuff, bring the sport back.
A fan to all of you.