enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Modified racing - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_racing

   They are built on tube chassis with coil over shocks. 10-inch-wide (250 mm) tires and a 76-inch (1,900 mm) track make these cars are fast and nimble. 2300 cc, four-cylinder power plants from Fords, Toyotas and even an odd Nissan are common, but the Ford Pinto Lima is the favored motor.

3. Backbone chassis - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backbone_chassis

   Backbone tube chassis is a type of automobile construction chassis that is similar to the body-on-frame design. Instead of a two-dimensional ladder-type structure , it consists of a strong tubular backbone (usually rectangular in cross section ) that connects the front and rear suspension attachment areas.

4. Altered (drag racing) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_(drag_racing)

   Richard Hartman, a crew chief for NHRA Funny Car driver Tim Wilkerson, rebodied a former Wilkerson Funny Car chassis into an Altered, reaching 4.92 seconds in the quarter-mile with a terminal velocity of 304.53 MPH. [22] It is the fastest quarter-mile car currently in the NHRA, as Top Fuel and Funny Car both run only to 1,000 feet.

5. Tony Nancy Wedge - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Nancy_Wedge

   The car ran for the first time in March, 1964, after being painted white. [2] Handling was problematic; at Sandusky, Ohio, in July 1964, Wedge I flipped on its way through the timing lights, at a speed of over 200 mph (320 km/h). [1] (This phenomenon, later common to rear-engine dragsters, would come to be known as "blowover".)

6. Platform chassis - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_chassis

   Platforms are usually the full width of the car, but shorter and only span the length between the wheels. Suspension attachments for the wheels and the weight of the engine and transmission are carried on additional subframes beyond this. These subframes may be formed of box section tubes welded on to the chassis, deep-drawn box sections formed ...

7. Holman-Moody - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holman-Moody

   Holman-Moody had a lasting effect on all forms of auto racing. Their innovations include fuel cells, full-floater rear axle, on-board fire systems, quick change disk brakes, square tube frames, and tube shocks. The 1966 Holman-Moody Ford Fairlane was the basis for all NASCAR racecars until NASCAR redesigned their car as the Car of Tomorrow. [2]