Month: January 2015

Building Cars

Exotic Materials in NASCAR Engines?

2015-01-23 dr. diandra 2

I was at a panel discussion some years ago at a motorsports engineering meeting about materials allowed on the car by different racing series. They had the tech people for IMSA, F1, Indy and NASCAR up […]

Lug Nuts

2015 Rules and Lug Nuts

2015-01-09 dr. diandra 1

Forty-three days till the Daytona 500. The shops are buzzing with activity as everyone adjusts to another new rules package. The engine folks are working overtime dealing with the changes there. The only thing that’s slowed down is planning for on-track independent testing, since that’s been eliminated this year. But more time in the wind tunnel, on the seven-post machine, at the computers. […]