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someone explain please

I'd say some kind of spacer that is limiting it from full throttle

My cousin in law is the head of a nascar teams engine shop and I've heard some interesting things
 
maybe they stick them on the back of the pedal after the race so the pedal can't be pressed all the way to the floor??
 
I hate NASCAR but when I heard this I was scratching my head as well.:confused:


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Definatly prevents WOT, I have a hard time imagining a magent strong enough to overcome the leverage/spring force for the carb linkage.
 
It holds the pedal further up, preventing full throttle. This allowed the much stronger than allowed Toyota engine to appear to be within the new limits set by NASCAR. It is a black eye on Toyota's engines, but luckily it only appeared to have happened with JGR.
 
yeah toyata ended up having to put on a more restrictive restrictor plate due to some high horsepower numbers so some bonehead tried a really old school trick to try and make the engines appear less powerful. I couldn't figure this out at first either until I heard about the restrictor plate differences.
 
i dont see it as a blackeye for toyota, if anything its a +, toyotas are so bad they have to have a smaller restrictor plate than any1 to not run off w/race and be competitive

so, are the myths true...did the toy buy the gm sbc platform as a starting base for their v8's?
 
blazin_blazer said:
i dont see it as a blackeye for toyota, if anything its a +, toyotas are so bad they have to have a smaller restrictor plate than any1 to not run off w/race and be competitive

so, are the myths true...did the toy buy the gm sbc platform as a starting base for their v8's?
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Many will feel that Toyota is responsible for the issue, even though they were built by JGR's engine builders. But, the restrictions were increased due to the overall strength of the Toyota engine. To me it bodes well for Toyota's continued rise in NASCAR as a whole, if they are building something that strong already. I didn't expect to see this type of restrictions being placed on the Toyota designs quite so early. I expected it to take a few more years before we saw what we have seen this year in both Nationwide and Sprint series'.

As for the platform, my understanding was that it was entirely a Toyota design, utilizing a short stroke versus the longer stroke of the big 3's engines. I don't know if it was based off of GM's design, but Toyota and GM have worked together in the past so it wouldn't be unheard of.
 
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