O/T NASCAR question
 

What is the difference between a Busch series car and a Winston Cup car? I'm a new NASCAR fan and I was just wondering.

Thanks All
Roby :D

The engine is the basic difference.

On top of the motor difference the wheelbase is shorter on a busch car and they are lighter. Going to bristol friday morning can't wait!

Cup..... vs Busch
 

Busch car has a 2" shorter wheelbase, 100 less lbs wieght and a 9:1 comp motor which means less hp......pretty close.......they both run radial tires now.........that is done on purpose so if a Busch team wants to move up to Cup its not a completley different ballgame........a little faster, a little heavier, a little harder on tires........ or if a Cup team wants to go back to Busch.......easier.........and yes at the same track on the same weekend a Busch polesitting car has outqualified a polesitting Cup car.......usually due to better track conditions during qualifying......doug:) ;)

BRISTOL!!!
 

Goob:::: need someone to take that extra ticket off your hands for Saturday night!!!..........Bristol......my favourite........you dog!!!!!:cool: :cool: :D :D

Jimmy "Haymaker" Spencer....hahahaa

Don't the Busch cars have less tire as well?

Busch also runs a smaller cfm carb than Cup. Cup is 870 cfm and I think Busch is 400's or so. IS that right Budah??

Hey....why do ya think they hired Gary Nelson to police these guys....always someone looking for an edge. I don't blame them, with all the "equalizing the playing field" stuff going one, the drivers are having less and less to do with the outcome of the race......:confused: :confused: :confused:

They need to get back to racing......like it was 10 years ago. That was killer.

ARCA is another class that sometimes runs at a race on Saturday instead of BUSCH. Same engines as WC. my cousin races ARCA they have run faser practice times then the WC cars on occasion.

last time i was at the shop they had 9 Ernie Elliot engines on the bench, and 4 in cars.

you should hear about the tricks. in NASCAR it ain't cheat'N till you get caught.

how about Plugging a section of the tube frame for the Nitrous canister volume. or soaking the tires in mineral spirits for qualifying.

watch the cars at the super speedways. they look like a dog that got hit in the rear by a car. down onthier bump stops. one way valves in the shocks to get the back ends down to cut the earo drag. the crew "pushes " the car into spec as they are lifting on the back end the whole way through inspection

i hope seeing the cars at Milwaukee turned some of you gear heads into fans. can't beat standing at the fence when 42 cars blow your hat off at 198mph literally 3 feet away. my hat landed on the guys head behind me this year. I can't make that stuff up

I heard the truck race tonight was killer! I should have went this morning.
Mike

Rambunctious,

Where is your cousin from, I may know him.

Busch
 

The cars are 2" shorter in the wb and lighter. 390 cfm Holley carb, and 9.5:1 comp ratio. Also different cylinder heads and cams (less airflow). About 550 hp ona Busch and 725 ona WCup car. I think they now use the same tires and I know the fuel is the same.