maybe if they became race cars first .
The Cascar Series ran mufflers mainly because of Series Sponsors, 1- MIDAS and 2- FLOPRO.
I think the cars sound more like race cars without the mufflers but I will say that the FLOPRO Mufflers were by far the nicest sounding muffler I have ever heard on a race car.
The truth of the matter is this.
If we race in an area where people live within a mile of the race track it should be there call, but only if the noise level exceeds the noise of Airplanes flying over head or high traffic noise levels.
I think that the noise is what allot of fans come to hear and it adds to the excitement of the show.
I grew up at race tracks, mostly Flamboro and Cayuga, and starting going to races full time when I was 5 years old.
Every Friday night was Mini Stocks, TQ's, Late Models and Modified Sportsmans.
Every Saturday night was Hobby Cars, Late Models and Super Modifieds.
Since then its been Supers, Silver Crown Cars, Cup Cars, Indy Cars and Stock Cars.... ALL NO MUFFLERS.
The noise never hurt me... I'm sorry did you say something ??
IF RACE CARS WHERE SUPPOSED TO SOUND LIKE STREET CARS WE WOULD RUN REAL HEADLIGHTS... NOT DECALS OF HEADLIGHTS.... CASE MADE !!
Dave-do you remember when Cascar ran the Walker mufflers and all cars sounded like vacuum cleaners?. All you heard coming off corner four at Delaware was a whoosh. Woops-just read a previous post and maybe it was me being quoted-LOL
I would have to bet that the Mufflers are OUT for the NASCAR NTS and that comes from a reliable sorce.
Im not a betting man but the sorce is high enough up there that its 99% true, at least for 99% of the tracks and I wont say which track wants mufflers.... so dont ask !!
I agree with Mark re:CASCAR, either have them on at all the races or have them off at all the races for reasons mentioned.
Hey Dave, do you remember Howie Scannel's car scooting around the track at Flamboro back in the late 60's, the old yellow #99 426 Hemi, now that was a sound all of it's own!
Kinda along the same line of thought as running a motor tuned for mufflers, without them, I was wondering about the guys that run Florida (ie. NSS) who's engines are tuned to run on unleaded fuel, what happens when they run the leaded fuel in them??? Also, if anyone remembers the fuel mixup or lack of, at Kawartha 2 years ago, some guys ran down to the local gas station for fuel, I wonder how those engines ran that day if in fact they used it? I know we were short fuel that day, but was able to get some off another team that went out, half way thru the race. Just curious???