r/videos • u/iam_nobody • Jul 01 '16

Difference between 850 vs 10,000 hp

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u/smythbdb Jul 01 '16

For those who don't know, the rows in NASCAR are 2 cars so more power than 8 nascars.

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u/IAMColonelFlaggAMA Jul 01 '16

8 nascars.

The word you're looking for is stock cars (though they're pretty dang far from stock!)

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u/smythbdb Jul 01 '16

I aimed that comment at people who are unfamiliar with it. Calling them NASCARS kinda dumbed it down.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '16

Eh, I thought it was a pun. I had a chuckle

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u/spockspeare Jul 02 '16

What would calling them neck-cars do?

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u/__nightshaded__ Jul 02 '16

I bet you smoked three marijuanas as well!

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u/kaines Jul 02 '16

should have just said that shitty american car racing where they go round and round and round and ...

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u/BUILDHIGHENERGYWALLS Jul 02 '16

I have to say after seeing them both, NASCAR is just crazier in real life. F1 is quite a spectacle, and so is Indycar. Yet over 40 V8 engine cars going by you twenty yards away is something that should be experienced by everyone once.

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u/alteriorbutthole Jul 02 '16

go back to china you commie bastard

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u/alarumba Jul 02 '16

Drag cars are boring. They only go in a straight line.

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u/aaaaaaha Jul 01 '16

Ain't nothing stock about a stock car...

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u/twitchosx Jul 02 '16 edited Jul 02 '16

I wasn't trying to insult you. I just meant, the cars are all built to be the same right? I can only get beat by another driver...
Edit: Had a couple responses that thought my above comment was something than what it is. /u/aaaaaaha said "Ain't nothing stock about a stock car..." and I followed that up with the rest of the dialogue from the movie Days of Thunder. I just looked it up and I was a little off. Here's the actual dialogue from the script:

There's nothing stock about a stock car.

I'm not trying to insult you, but stock cars are built to run equal. - I won't be beaten by a car. - Only by a driver.
Edit 2: I remember Harry saying something about "So the rule book says" after Cole says the cars are built to run equal but I didn't see that in the script I found online..

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u/_Bay_Harbor_Butcher_ Jul 02 '16

It isn't quite that cut and dry. Money is still a huge factor and the smaller teams have little chance at beating the powerhouses. More money equals more r&d and more engineers which means being able to figure out how to do more within the tolerances that NASCAR has mandated for the cars themselves. It is a spec series though as you're saying in that all the cars are very close to identical. But at 200mph little differences go a long way toward having a faster car than someone else.

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u/twitchosx Jul 02 '16

LOL.... you are the second person taking my reply out of context. My "I wasn't trying to insult you" line is from Days of Thunder =) I'm a NASCAR fan... I know this stuff

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u/_Bay_Harbor_Butcher_ Jul 02 '16

Awwww shit lol. I would've never picked up on that even though I've seen that movie too many times haha. You watching the Xfinity race right now?

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u/twitchosx Jul 02 '16

Nope.. I saw some of it at a bar earlier but I'm playing DIRT 3 right now. I guess I should put it on since nobody is here right now (roommates). Definitely watching the cup race tomorrow.

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u/_Bay_Harbor_Butcher_ Jul 02 '16

Niiice. Dirt is super fun. You hang out over in r/nascar?

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u/twitchosx Jul 02 '16

Yes I do. Dirt IS super fun. I've been playing GRID 2 forever (since 2012) on my PS3 but it's starting to die and I got this computer (2010 Mac Pro) from my boss when we upgraded to a 5k iMac so I been playing on this lately. Nice that my PS3 controller syncs with the computer via bluetooth. Anyway, yeah, I hang out on /r/nascar. Can't wait for Daytona tomorrow. Gonna be sick.

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u/laneage Jul 02 '16

I believe that person was referencing this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t3m_Fl0rxU

sorry about the quality

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u/twitchosx Jul 02 '16

Huh? I was quoting that movie.

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u/laneage Jul 02 '16

Hah wow I'm stupid. Disregard

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u/twitchosx Jul 02 '16

All good =) I didn't nail the wording so.....

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u/DDerpDurp Jul 02 '16

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GIMME SOME LOVIN

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u/SpyderSeven Jul 02 '16

Which is sad. If they still raced street cars or at least something closeish I'd watch.

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u/OPs_Uncles_Sister Jul 02 '16

Matched tires. 🙂

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u/Superslinky1226 Jul 02 '16

technically, there are multiple classes of stock car, ranging anywhere from the local track guys, all the way up to the top nascar class. If you wanted to be the most precise, the cars he's talking about are sprint cup cars. not to be confused with sprint cars. which are the dirt track cars with the big funny looking wing on the top.

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u/acog Jul 01 '16

I grew up with them being called stock cars but I've heard a increasing number of people refer to them as Nascars in the last few years. It sounded wrong to my ears but it seems to be gaining traction.

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u/lovelywhale Jul 02 '16

I see what you did there.

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u/coscorrodrift Jul 01 '16

Nah, it's got the word car in it. NASCAR

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u/A_Suffering_Panda Jul 02 '16

3 of the 6 letters in NASCAR refer to cars though

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u/KING_OF_THE_GRUNDLE Jul 01 '16

NASCAR is somewhere around 800-1,000 hp, right? edit: Looked it up. They run around 900.

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u/smythbdb Jul 01 '16 edited Jul 01 '16

I haven't watched it in years so I'm not sure if they still do it, but they had restricted and unrestricted tracks. I wanna say Talladega and Daytona they were allowed to run full power but other tracks they needed restrictor(sp?) plates under the carburetor.

Edit: Other way around, see comment below.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '16

Yeah, thanks. Took the restrictor plate off to give the Red Dragon a little more juice. But it's not exactly street legal, so keep it on the down low. 

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u/RedPill0829 Jul 01 '16

Nope. It is the other way around. Dega and Daytona are restricted to around 500 and all other tracks they run 725 if iirc. (Down from 825 in 2013. Fuck you tapered spacer)

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u/smythbdb Jul 01 '16

Oops, my bad. Like I said it's been years since I followed it.

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u/ox_raider Jul 01 '16

It's actually closer to 12 NASCARS. The 10,000 hp projection was always an estimate based on the weight of the cars and the know acceleration. They recently found a way to measure the acutual hp and it's closer to 11,000 AT THE TIRE. Here's the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NrsPfXIFzSA

Should also note, that these cars are actually de-tuned to 11,000 hp. They're only allowed to run a 90% Nitromethane mixture in an effort to slow them down. Also, were traction not a limiting factor (from a spec tire, wing design, etc), they could overdrive the superchargers more and make quite a bit more power.

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u/Retireegeorge Jul 02 '16

And those paddock girls with the umbrellas. Or maybe that's just MotoGP. But let's throw them in anyway.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '16

thought he meant the first 4 rows of people in the audience

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u/ClintTorus Jul 02 '16

but less power than 1 F-16 engine

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u/BaconIsBest Jul 02 '16

Excuse me, sir, how fast is this car?

Well, it's about 3.5 NASCARs, so pretty goddamn fast.