NASCAR selected 11 cars to run on the engine dyno following Sunday night’s race. The cars registered numbers that were quite close. Included were:
No. 12 Dodge (781hp), No. 48 Chevrolet (784hp — a number recorded following his postrace burnout), No. 17 Ford (788hp), No. 1 (786hp) Chevrolet, No. 20 Chevrolet (781hp), No. 31 Chevrolet (788hp), No. 9 Dodge (784hp), No. 88 Ford (780hp), No. 83 Toyota (783hp), No. 22 Toyota (788hp), No. 24 Chevrolet (777hp).
NASCAR confiscated the engines from the cars and will conduct further examinations at the Research & Development Center in Concord, N.C
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um..ok WHY did they confiscate them??? that would be helpful..
Maybe that information wasn’t available at the time. Darrell, if it sucks so bad……
don’t read it!
Maybe they have a hp limit they cant go over?
but y did they check just those drivers?
DONNY,
First off..i wrote the first reply…i DID NOT write the part bout jayski being better….
it did this to me last week..i posted and it automatically changed the name to like LENNY or something..whomever posted b4 i did..but i DID NOT POST that bout jayski
the REAL
Darrell
I’ll have to agree with you Darrell. Cause my screen says “Welcome back Darrell”. I’m not logged in or even registered. Kinda weird.
Cool facts to know 788 is the highest, what is the NASCAR limit!
I googled it and it looks like it’s about 750.
Ha, Johnson’s engine recorded 784 horsepower AFTER his burnout. Wow. That’s what you call an engine.
Darrell wrote:
My apoloigies. That’s happened to me as well and somebody used profanity under my name. Again, my apologies. In another comment section I put and will put again….
THOSE WHO LOG IN AS ‘GUEST’ OR ANOTHER PERSON’S NAME AND MAKE CHEESY COMMENTS ARE DUMB DONKEYS.
If Johnson’s was pushing that much hp after the burnout, I think his engine should be gone over before the race. I smell something fishy.
yeah thank you..it just changed mine to DALE as well..and i had to switch it out…
Yes, let’s have NASCAR just check JJ before the race. The rest of them…they’re all ok…it was probably just this one time that they did it. That’s stupid! Besides, if he had that much more HP than everyone else, there wouldn’t have been any kind of race with Kenseth!
wtf are yall smoken? The burnout wouldn’t affect his cars horsepower, when any driver does a burnout they adjust the brake bias to the front 100% so the front wheels are locked up and the back are free as can be. They dont even redline them to do burnouts ussually. No effect whatsoever.
Your’re right Jack, they even showed Jimmie adjusting the brake bias and talked about it on the broadcast before he did the burnout.
I just want to know why they did this.
for all of you that say that it doesent redline during the burnout you must of had the mute on for last week and the week befor. you can hear the motor bounce off the limiter. its a good thing to do if you have a hot motor, if they do a post race check. @ the track we run they do a compression test on the top 3 cars, if they think sumthing is up.
Does anyone know if this is RWHP or Calculated Crank HP?
from what i heard they did not confiscate the motors, they just dyno’d them as they do several times a year to keep track of where the teams are at. also, nascar limits displacement to 358ci, there is no horsepower limit, the teams have simply all pushed the design to its limit. these should be rear-wheel numbers. at the flywheel cup motors can push 850+
Why are people so amazed that NASCAR would check an engine from all the top teams? They do it several times a year just to make sure that nobody has an unfair advantage. Thats why Toyota had to change their Busch engine intake. They had way more power than anyone else.
Jack is right. Burnouts won’t change the hp of your engine unless you damage it. Even then there are engineers and engine builders who could put it back together and get a pretty good idea what the engine was capable of before the damage.
everytime i click on this story i get logged out whats the freaking deal
They do this to make sure that the HP numbers are close between different manufacturers.
George Thompson wrote:
Not sure what’s happening George….let me look into it.
What I don’t get is why JJ has more hp than JG if they’re both racing for the title…
The title here is a bit misleading. Technically, the engines aren’t “confiscated.” That makes it sound like something shady is going on. NASCAR checks the engines from various manufacturer’s and teams to look for disparity. The engines aren’t kept by NASCAR after the testing is complete.
Limitation on the HP of the Nascar engines, the MAXIMUM, is 750 HP. Don’t believe me? Look it up on Nascar.com itself. The engines yes were confiscated. Yeah, they check them. But for these guys where so much more serious. Don’t be surprised if one of them gets a fined by the end of the week.
burnouts will effect an engine. does anyone know how hot an engine gets when they sit still with no passing air and turnin that many rpms? heat, causes warp, wich looses compression, wich looses horsepower. There i spelled it out for a few of you with low vocabulary.
So the 22 had 11 more HP than the 24? That 24 car must have an awesome aero package cause the 22 cant even stay on the same lap in most races. The setups of the cars is so important these days , since it appears almost everyone is in the same HP ballpark , the race is won in who can run the fastest in the corners. Its also amazing these engines will live at 9000 RPM’s for 4 hours and still do a rev limiter banging burnout after the race.
Kay wrote:
Yeah, check the NASCAR propaganda machine. If this was such a big deal, it’d be headline news at all the other sports websites. No mention of it except as a side note at Foxsports, ESPN, etc…even Jayski.
1. This is standard practice and happens a few times throughout the season.
2. They were all very close as a sample meaning that most of the engines in the field are around the same. Yes, the engines can be over 750, it’s not like you can make an exact horsepower number in an engine.
3. There will be no fines.
Nicholas
Nov 5th, 2007 at 11:08 pm Quote
burnouts will effect an engine. does anyone know how hot an engine gets when they sit still with no passing air and turnin that many rpms? heat, causes warp, wich looses compression, wich looses horsepower. There i spelled it out for a few of you with low vocabulary.
thank you, it looks like afew people dont understand this.
Yeah, this was just a test thing…testing horsepower and whatnot between all of the manufacturers. They dyno them several times a year.
Why do we need 20 replies from 20 people that say the same thing. We get it. It’s a routine inspection. No story here.
Marty wrote:
It’s just a routine inspection.
It’s just a routine inspection.
It’s just a routine inspection.
It’s just a routine inspection.