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GordoSD

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Someone claimed that some NASCAR teams in the 60's or later, had great success with some I6 engines. I remember when the Offy's were used in an I4 configuration, but who ran I6's and what kind were they. BMW? Toyo? Did one ever win a big race?
And for the sake of PC let's not go back into the 50's with the Hornets and other obsolete applications.
 

Are you sure it was Nascar? Usac ran the Offys as some other groups. Nascar started running the V8s in the 40s with the 49 Olds. They ran some V6s later.
 
They ran V-6 engines in the "80s in what were then Busch Grand National Cars. I was racing then, and I remember that you could run a v-6 or a v-8 but there was a weight advantage given to the v-6 cars. They could run a good bit lighter than the v-8s and i think they got a bit more left side weight, also. I don"t know how long that lasted. I got out in 1988 for a time frame. IIRC, the 6s were all GM and based on the 231 Buick.
 
I don't know about NASCAR, but CASE ran inline 4cyl engines at Indy.
Loren, the Acg.
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Some drivers at local dirt tracks in the 50s ran Buick straight 8s with success. Most of the competition was Ford flatheads.
 
BMW didnt make cars until the fifities and they still havn't really figured it out.Same with Toyota. Never ran back then. It wasn't too long before that we were bombing those countries.
 
Nearly every NASCAR saturday night track has a straight six class....North Wilkesborough held an annual straight 6 race ( sponsored by Coke ) for years- basically late models with highly tricked out straight sixes. I ran a Hornet bodied 258 AMC powered car there once and a 250 Chevy powered Buick bodied car there. Several Winston Cup crew chiefs built cars for themselves or crew members for the race.
 
BMW actually started building cars in the late '20's, but they stopped for the war and it took a while to get started again.
 
270 GMC engines were very popular in the '50s and '60s on dirt tracks around here, in what they called "coupes". The flathead v-8s took a lot of money to be competetive.
 
How long ago was that? Ive been going to NW since I was about 9 years old. Never heard of such a thing there or any oddball sounding engine that I can recall.
 
The car they built was actually a popular British car which they build under license. It was the Model T Ford of Europe. In WW2 they were not producing enough aircraft engines so the various ministries gave them funding. Thank You Karl with a K.
 
I googled BMW 1920s images and it seems as though they made some cars the whole time- showed sports cars of the 1930s.Thank You again Karl with a K.I gotta stop saying that ,Sorry.
 
No prob. Not trying to make anybody feel bad. A friend once referred to me as a vast storehouse of useless information....
 
are you saying that mark martin and jeff gordon were running buick engines in the fords they were running i don't think so, chuck
 
I didn't say the Fords ran Buick v-6 engines. I said that the GM V-6 was based on the Buick 231. I don't remember seeing any Ford V-6s in Busch cars. Actually I don't remember very many Fords in the Grand National series. Of course, I apparently don't know anything, anyway. I'm going to bed. You experts can stay up and play. Just keep the noise down.
 
(quoted from post at 08:45:48 03/07/13) I didn't say the Fords ran Buick v-6 engines. I said that the GM V-6 was based on the Buick 231. I don't remember seeing any Ford V-6s in Busch cars. Actually I don't remember very many Fords in the Grand National series. Of course, I apparently don't know anything, anyway. I'm going to bed. You experts can stay up and play. Just keep the noise down.
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have a good night. chuck
 
In the 60s I seriously doubt if there would have been any import engines in NASCAR. They were probably Chevy or GMC, and maybe some Fords. There is equipment available to make any of those real killers.
 
Coca cola street stock race limited to domestic inline six cylinders on 2 bbl carbs in street stock, grand stock,sportsman and late model chassis on 10 inch slicks. We went in 85 and 86. Last year might have been 1990
 
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