BBS Wheels Chosen for Next Generation of Stock Cars

I also imagine BBS sponsorship $$$$ played a role.  I don't even know who made the steelies and lug nuts and I've taken 'em off and put 'em on.  I know who made the tires though.

Ian F said:

Does the move to an 18" wheel mean the cars will get larger brakes?

This is pic is a few weeks old now, they're obviously still using 5 lugs here, but the brakes definitely appear much larger

Duke said:

Didn't they have a gun head that could run all 5 lugs simultaneously anyway?

Someone may have tried one, I don't recall but the current gun and socket is really only limited now by how quick you can move from lug to lug so it may not be any quicker, and NASCAR is quick to ban gimmicks like that pretty fast.  I remember a Busch team replaced their air hoses with backpack tanks and they were banned after one pit stop.  

In reply to Wally :

That's because the Busch team was found to have beer in that backpack tank.

300zxfreak said:

In reply to Wally :

That's because the Busch team was found to have beer in that backpack tank.

Beer is a lousy tire-inflation medium...

300zxfreak said:

In reply to Wally :

That's because the Busch team was found to have beer in that backpack tank.

They got caught because every time they pulled the trigger on the air gun it went BUSCHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Wally said:

Duke said:

Didn't they have a gun head that could run all 5 lugs simultaneously anyway?

Someone may have tried one, I don't recall but the current gun and socket is really only limited now by how quick you can move from lug to lug so it may not be any quicker, and NASCAR is quick to ban gimmicks like that pretty fast.  I remember a Busch team replaced their air hoses with backpack tanks and they were banned after one pit stop.  

Holman-Moody (I think) was testing that in the 1960s, and Bill France decided that it was not a good idea to have men running around with 2000psi tanks on their backs in the pits.

In reply to Knurled. :

Seeing a few pit-crew members getting rolled up onto the hood in the pits.... I'd have to agree.