Food For Thought 2012

[SWT500]

Hope everyone enjoys this article from Indianapolis Business Journal (IBJ):

www.ibj.com/sweeping-new-rules-await-indy-500-insiders-predict/PARAMS/article/20086

There is not much concrete here but a lot of interesting speculation.

[stuboyle]

Very interesting article.

I like the idea of really opening up the motors and allow any team to buy any motor with a price cap of $10,000 or less or something like that. Can't you buy a Corvette motor for less than that? I don't see why the motors have to cost so much. Now a $10,000 may not be a reliable as a $100,000 motor but I think that would be good.

[Calvin]

May 26, 2010 11:30:29 GMT -5 stuboyle said:

Now a $10,000 may not be a reliable as a $100,000 motor but I think that would be good.

10k engines would make thngs more interesting. When every cars engine is reliable it makes the race more predictable.

[indycals]

Even in the 1960s a Ford DOHC went for $20,000.

[Calvin]

I think the Late 70's Cosworth was 40,000

[Chris]

In the Early to Mid eighties our man Dan Gurney campaigned a stock block Pontiac in several Eagles to promote the low cost engine in the new CART series and made several attempts to promote it at Indy. I had some great pics in the pits at Riverside of the injection set-up, a High rise Edelbrock (dual carb style)manifold with square butterfies on the top and port injectors, this was fed by a simple pulley/crank run fuel pump. Simplicity at its best although Fast it did not catch on.. Chris

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$10,000 would be a very difficult price to reach and have an engine hold up. Even Cup engines start at $40,000 to lease.......

I'm sure you could build a race engine for $10,000, but just don't expect it to do what today's engines are doing. And I am also pretty sure it wouldn't last very long running it like the engines like they are at Indy.

Mongo

[robh]

I'd like to see them blow the lid off with turbines, rotarys, diesels, AWD, hovercraft, thrust vectoring, electric engines, hybrids, robotic pit crews, etc.